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Self-government can collapse when government doesn’t police itself – when abuses of power fester too long. That has happened with the investigation into the Internal Revenue Service’s unjustified 2010 audits of numerous nonprofit conservative groups, which sidelined many of them during President Obama’s 2011-12 re-election campaign.
In a letter to Congress, the Justice Deparment said it will file no criminal charges in the case, not even against Lois Lerner, the former director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Office. Yet in 2013, Ms. Lerner herself sparked the uproar, telling an American Bar Association meeting that IRS auditors “actually used case names on this list. They used names like Tea Party or Patriots, and they selected cases simply because the applications had those names in the title.”
Before a congressional investigation, Ms. Lerner invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
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