IRS Press Conference (May 10, 2013)

(In advance of TIGTA report, Administration, via Treasury Department executives in staged Q&A at ABA Taxation Section Meeting, admits that certain conservative groups and Christian organizations were targeted and profiled over three-year period when application for I.R.C. Sec. 501(c)(4) status made and "tea party" or "patriot" appeared in application or group was conservative Christian religious organization; at least 300 groups targeted; IRS also illegally sought list of donors to approximately 75 of those groups; head of IRS tax-exempt organization office responsible for such targeting and profiling also member of Humane Society of United States (HSUS), an anti-agriculture animal liberation organization that has 501(c)(4) status but spends the vast majority of its annual budget on political lobbying activity; IRS refused congressional request to investigate HSUS political activity).