Sen. Orrin Hatch is calling on the IRS to investigate whether someone on the inside could have leaked the private tax files of a prominent anti-gay marriage group.
Hatch, in a letter Tuesday to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, said, "evidence suggests that the IRS may have been the source of the unauthorized disclosure of donor information."
The Republican Utah senator was referring to the recent publication of documents listing 2008 contributors to the National Organization for Marriage. Among those contributors was Mitt Romney.
Both the gay advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign and the Huffington Post posted the documents -- the National Organization for Marriage has claimed it appears someone in the IRS fed the documents to the Human Rights Campaign.
That possibility "is a matter that I take with the utmost seriousness," Hatch wrote, calling the allegation "disturbing."
"Our political history shows the absolute necessity of maintaining the nonpartisan integrity of the IRS," Hatch wrote, calling for an investigation.
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Of course an IRS staffer did it. Its on internal only letter head with internal only numbering.
Matt:
Yup.
This one needs to be carefully, thoroughly and steadily developed.
Joe Salmonese sits on Obama's reelection campaign, and suddenly his organization.....somehow....gets hold of a confidential internal IRS filing?
Interesting.....
The IRS serves its master, Obama, bringing in the cash for his power. There's no law of the Land with Obama in power. Obama has his own people in the IRS, like Russia has spies in the USA.
"Of course an IRS staffer did it. Its on internal only letter head with internal only numbering."
Yes, which any NOM employee can request.
Is NOM admitting it's a partisan organization then? And I read that NOM disclose its own tax form. Isn't NOM supposed to disclose its donor list, after losing in court? Has that happened yet?
Little Pete: 'Yes, which any NOM employee can request'? That's something you can prove? HRC got it from somewhere. If they got it from a NOM employee, it would be someone in the accounting department (only). But even then, it is illegal to publish that confidential information. How old are you? You don't seem to have your senses working, today.