Article posted: 5/13/2013 1:36 PM

Obama says he won’t tolerate political bias at IRS

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President Barack Obama on Monday called reports that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups "outrageous" and said anyone responsible should be held accountable.

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President Barack Obama said Monday he will not tolerate political bias at the Internal Revenue Service and promised to get to the bottom of the agency's admitted targeting of conservative groups. Obama, in his first comments on the revelations of political targeting at the tax agency, said he learned about them from the initial news reports Friday.