Imagine if you were part of an organization at war for decades with the Internal Revenue Service. Then one day you just happened to be walking by their national headquarters when you decided to walk in the front door, barge into the Commissioner’s office, without an appointment, only to have that Commissioner roll out the red carpet, cater to your every whim and give you the tax exemption you demand.
But that’s not all.
This meeting and its particulars are so mysterious, a newspaper reporter decides to file a Freedom of Information Act request and get the Commissioner’s appointment book. And when he does, it shows no such meeting!
This then is somehow taken by the reporter as “proof” that the meeting must have taken place, since there is no record of it anywhere.
Certainly, if true, this would be a sensational story. And if you were the prestigious New York Times, you would want to confirm the story was true—that the meeting actually took place—before printing such. Of course you would verify this with the concerned parities.
Well, The New York Times did print the story—last week, about the Church of Scientology’s recognition as tax exempt—three years ago.
The only problem: the story is untrue. No such impromptu, unscheduled meeting ever did take place.
Tax-Exempt Recognition continued...
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