'Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet," read the New York Times
headline. "Dem: 'Progressive' Groups Were Also Targeted by IRS," said
U.S. News. The scandal has "evaporated into thin air," bayed the
excitable Andrew Sullivan. A breathlessly exonerative narrative swept
the news media this week: that liberal groups had been singled out and,
by implication, abused by the IRS, just as conservative groups had been.
Therefore, the scandal wasn't a scandal but a mere bungle—a
nonpolitical series of unhelpful but innocent mistakes.
The problem with this story is that liberals were not caught in the IRS dragnet. Progressive groups were not targeted.
The claim that they had been rested mostly on an unclear, undated, highly redacted and not at all dispositive few pages from a "historical" BOLO ("be on the lookout") list that apparently wasn't even in use between May 2010 and May 2012, when most of the IRS harassment of conservative groups occurred.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vRyJ9rRDnsUJ:online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
The problem with this story is that liberals were not caught in the IRS dragnet. Progressive groups were not targeted.
The claim that they had been rested mostly on an unclear, undated, highly redacted and not at all dispositive few pages from a "historical" BOLO ("be on the lookout") list that apparently wasn't even in use between May 2010 and May 2012, when most of the IRS harassment of conservative groups occurred.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:vRyJ9rRDnsUJ:online.wsj.com/article/declarations.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
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