IRS targeted conservative college interns

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Daily Caller:

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanded information about conservative groups’ college-aged interns, prompting outrage from one of the country’s top conservative activist organizations and leading one former intern to wonder whether his family’s pizza parlor would be endangered.

The IRS requested, in an audit, the names of the conservative Leadership Institute’s 2008 interns, as well as specific information about their internship work and where the interns were employed in 2012, according to a document request the IRS sent to the Leadership Institute, dated February 14, 2012.

The IRS requested:

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“Copies of applications for internships and summer programs; to include: lists of those selected for internships and students in 2008.

– In regards to such internships, please provide information regarding where the interns physically worked and how the placement was arranged.

– After completing internships and courses, where were the students and interns employed?”