Tags: Tea Party

An audit of the agency’s behavior unearths disturbing new information.

Was given the question to ask in advance

"No one took charge"

Kind of a "we told you so" moment

Complaining about 501(c)4 status without mentioning OFA uses it is disingenuous at the very least.

Mistakes were made

Says the Tea Party is the "Taliban wing of American politics”

Approaching 500 different organizations

Evaluation of agency's targeting of Tea Party groups is not gentle

Were any laws broken by singling out conservative groups?

The long, disturbing history of using the Internal Revenue Service to target political opponents.

For costly, politically-motivated audit

Organizations that "criticize how the country is run" also carefully inspected

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) says last week's admission by the IRS is "chilling"

The government agency apologizes, says “mistakes were made.”