Going Clear, Part 12 – IRS and religion invention

Going Clear, Part 12 summary

Wright invents the ‘fact’ that the IRS in 1992 settlement negotiations was making a determination of whether or not Scientology was a religion, a task he adjudicates the IRS was ‘ill-equipped’ to do.  Rathbun, recounts how he had explicitly, long prior to publication, demonstrated to Wright that his was not only not the case, but could not be the case.  Scientology had won that determination in court in 1967, after years of the IRS attempting to challenge it.  Since then, Rathbun told Wright, dozens of courts had reconfirmed that finding. It was such settled law that even the IRS wanted to make such an adjudication in 1992 they were powerless to do so.  Yet, Wright alleges the “unqualified” IRS set out to do so in 1982.