The Bush administration is using the IRS to intimidate the NAACP says Knight Ridder.

"The Internal Revenue Service is investigating whether a speech by NAACP Chairman Julian Bond last summer that criticized the Bush administration violated a federal law that prohibits tax-exempt charitable organizations from engaging in most forms of political activity. [snip]

"You can be passionate and still have a tax-exempt status," [ Frances] Hill [a University of Miami law professor] said. "If the IRS thinks that this speech is sufficient to trigger an audit, then I think we have quite a new standard and they must be planning to audit hundreds of other groups.""

Yeah like the Heritage foundation and the Christian Coalition some time after hell freazes over.