WASHINGTON - September 22 - Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Internal Revenue Service to better understand the development and implementation of its new Political Activity Compliance Initiative (PACI) project created during the 2004 election cycle to promote compliance with the prohibition against political campaign intervention by IRC 501(c)(3) organizations. CREW seeks documents related to the 132 organizations that the IRS identified for investigation by its PACI project.

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