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Told our lawyer that the reason it was being held up was because the irs toh to give special scrutiny to organizations connected to israel. the irs agent also told our lawyer that some of those organizations were going to be sent to a special unit in washington to determine whether or not weather the organization's positions contradict those of the administration. at that point, we knew that is classic viewpoint discrimination. we knew we had to bring an action. we brought a lawsuit against the irs, "z" street versus douglas shulman, who was the commissioner of the irs. after we filed our laws...

>> it's an educational organization whose mission is to provide accurate information about israel in particular and the middle-east in general. >> all right. in 2009, the organization filinged for 501c3, a charitable status. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> to make donations to be deducted like any other charity with that status? >> that's right. >> what happened to your 2009 application -- have you gotten charitable deduction status yet? >> no. we didn't. the irs put our application on hold. >> why? >> because we had the temerity to see the -- sue the irs for what we building was viewpo...

Familiar, well me what it is. >> it's an educational organization whose mission is to provide accurate information about israel, in particular, and the middle east in general. >> all right. in 2009 the organization filed for 501c3 which is a charitable status; is that correct. >> that's correct. >> that would allow donations made to your organization to be deducted like any other charity that has that status. >> that's right. >> what happened to your 2009 application? have you gotten that charitable deduction status yet? >> no, we didn't. the irs put our makes on hold. >> why? >> because we ha...

Familiar, well me what it is. >> it's an educational organization whose mission is to provide accurate information about israel, in particular, and the middle east in general. >> all right. in 2009 the organization filed for 501c3 which is a charitable status; is that correct. >> that's correct. >> that allow donations made to your organization to be deducted like any other charity that has that status. >> that's right. >> what happened to your 2009 application? have you gotten that charitable deduction status yet? >> no, we didn't. the irs put our makes on hold. >> why? >> because we had the ...

Everything. any issues, whether someone gets a paper cut in an agency or real problems with first amendment or have benghazi where there were obviously terrible things that happened over there, none of those scandals, though, have anything to do with president obama exerting operational control, yet always it is blame obama first, ask questions later. that's what's most frustrating for people that care about these issues and clearly for the white house. having said that, as someone that practiced first amendment law, there are real issues at what i would call the operational level. viewpoint d...