Rick Santorum to Newsmax: Obama's DOJ Most Politically 'Corrupt' Ever

The Justice Department under President Barack Obama is the most "corrupt … that we've ever seen" after disclosing Friday that it would not prosecute the IRS in the targeting scandal, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told Newsmax TV.

"This Justice Department will go down, along with this president, as the worst presidency and the worst Justice Department, the most corrupt Justice Department, or I should say corrupt from a political standpoint, that we've ever seen," the former Pennsylvania senator told "The Steve Malzberg Show."

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The department told Congress on Friday that it was closing its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service on the targeting of tea party and conservative groups without bringing charges against the agency and its controversial former director, Lois Lerner.

"It's obviously disappointing," Santorum told Malzberg. "There's no question that these organizations were targeted and they were targeted, not just organizations, but individuals.

"I can't tell you the number of people that I've talked to who have been targeted by the Internal Revenue Service because of their political activity," he said.

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