New IRS demands that American Legion posts produce confidential documents they don’t have in order to maintain their tax-exemption is a “disgusting” intrusion that could harm the charitable organization’s work for veterans, a top Legion official told the Washington Examiner.

Louis Celli, national legislative director of the Legion, stopped short of saying the IRS is “targeting” the organization for political purposes, as the tax agency admitted doing earlier this year Tea Party and other conservative groups seeking nonprofit status since 2010.

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