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Andy Kroll covers dark money for Mother Jones. Today he shines a light on why precisely the IRS “scandal” targeting Tea Party groups is nothing more than republicans cherrypicking what the IRS does to everybody.
You’ll remember that the Treasury Department inspector general report that first looked at the “targeting” of groups with “tea party” and “patriots” in their name found no evidence of political bias. At the time, Republicans in Congress didn’t buy that. Clearly, they argued, this was the work of anti-conservative IRS staffers, or a meddlesome Obama White House looking to suppress its opponents in a closely fought election year. Then we learned that the manager of the IRS Screening Office in Cincinnati, where most of the alleged targeting took place, identified himself as a “conservative Republican.” Still, Republicans forged onward.
via Even Republicans Admit It: Politics Did Not Drive the IRS Tea Party “Scandal” | Mother Jones.