Columnist George Will: June 17, 1971, was four days after The New York Times began publishing the leaked Pentagon Papers, the classified Defense Department history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. [Richard] Nixon worried that further leaks ... would reveal his role in sabotaging negotiations that might have shortened the war. This fear caused Nixon to create the Special Investigations Unit -- aka the plumbers -- and to direct an aide to devise other proposals... This aide suggested using the IRS against political adversaries, but added: The truth is we don’t have any reliable political friends at IRS. … We won’t be … in a position of effective leverage until such time as we have complete and total control of the top three slots at IRS. Forty years later, the IRS has punished conservative groups, and evidence that might prove its criminality has been destroyed. Happy anniversary.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:33:16 +0000
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