The law restricts these organizations because donations are tax-deductible for the donor and in effect are subsidized by the government.

Tax law prohibits charities organized under section 501c3 from taking sides in political campaigns. He went on to criticize the president's policies on education, civil rights and the Iraq war and noted that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry had accepted the group's invitation to speak, while Bush had declined. The law restricts these organizations because donations are tax-deductible for the donor and in effect are subsidized by the government. It's going to take more than that summary judgment to convince me. He's the first president since Herbert Hoover not to address the NAACP's annual convention. He charged that the investigation amounted to a "blatant political use of the IRS. When the top job in the tax agency was being filled, Nixon made it very clear to his staff what kind of person he had in mind for the position. Bush is no friend of many of this nation's traditional civil-rights leaders.

It did reveal that about 20 of the groups being looked into were churches.