In a page ripped directly from the playbook of the old Soviet KGB:

From the WashingtonTimes.com:

IRS targeted Dr. Ben Carson after Prayer Breakfast speech

By John Solomon The Washington Times

Just months after he gave a speech earlier this year that challenged America’s leadership in President Obama’s presence, Dr. Ben Carson was targeted by IRS agents who requested to review his real estate holdings and then conducted a full audit without finding any wrongdoing.

“I guess it could be a coincidence, but I never had been audited before and never really had any encounters with the IRS,” Dr. Carson said in an interview Thursday with The Washington Times. “But it certainly would make one suspicious because we know now the IRS has been used for political purposes and therefore actions like this come under suspicion.”

As Dr Carson indicates, I am absolutely and positively certain that his being subject to an IRS audit is only the most remote of coincidences.  The current Obama Administration would never be as base as that of the most repressive of Soviet regimes.

Dr. Carson told The Times that IRS agents contacted him in June — less than four months after the speech — and requested to review his real estate holdings. After finding nothing that concerned them, the agents then informed him they were conducting a full audit of his finances, and then asked to go back an additional year to review his records, he said.

This, too, is a nice line from Dr Ben Carson:

“I guess I’m surprised it took them that long.”

The IRS politicized?  The Obama Administration using its power to try to smash dissent and/or punish those who would go against the president?

Perish the thought.

BZ