IRS targeting violated employee contract against political
coercion  June 4, 2013, Fairfax, VA—Americans for Limited
Government President Nathan Mehrens today issued the following
statement calling attention to a 2009 National Treasury
Employees Union contract agreement that forbade political
coercion at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and stated
“Employees should be protected against arbitrary action,
personal favoritism, or coercion for partisan political
purposes; and prohibited from using their official authority or
influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the
result of an election or a nomination for election”:  “Obama’s
IRS in Washington, D.C., by directing the political targeting by
the agency against the tea party and other groups, may have
compelled employees to violate their own contractual agreement.
In part this is ironic, but it also perhaps explains why some
Cincinnati employees had such strong misgivings about the
targeting, as revealed recently in sworn testimony.  “This t