We’ve been reading the stories for weeks, now, revealing how Obama used the IRS to target conservative groups in hopes of intimidating them into staying out of politics for fear that the IRS would come down on them with the full force of law. But now comes a story that the EPS did something similar all in an effort to make life hard for conservative groups while clearing all obstacles for the liberal groups.
A new report on Fox Nation by Eric Shawn notes that conservative groups that applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with Freedom of Information Act requests (FOIA) were treated differently than liberal groups that filed FOIAs.
When conservative groups filed their FOIA requests, the EPA piled fee upon fee on them to make their requests more costly and difficult. But when the liberal groups filed their FOIA, guess what the EPA did? Yep, they waived all fees making the liberal’s FOIA requests a breeze.
“I don’t think it is fair at all. It is not fair to the American taxpayer — the American taxpayer should expect and demand that the EPA treats everyone equally in regard to these requests,” said Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Tim Murphy, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. “This cannot be tolerated. As we see more federal agencies with this kind of bias, it is and should be a concern for all of us.”
Shawn quotes the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) as saying that this is common knowledge in Washington. The left-wing groups have their fees waived 90 percent of the time while conservative groups are denied waivers 90 percent of the time.
Obama may have pretended to fire the head of the IRS to make it look like he’s doing something–that particular administrator was about to leave his post in a few weeks anyway–but what we are seeing is a culture of intimidation and corruption that runs throughout Washington DC.
Does it surprise you that liberal Washington has it out for all conservatives and that the gears of government are used to grind conservatives while letting liberals off scot free? Tell us about it in the comments section.
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