AP: “There’s an irony in the Internal Revenue Service’s crackdown on conservative groups. The nation’s tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller tea party organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, and senior Treasury Department officials were notified in… Continue reading

NYT reports.

WaPo: “The story of the IRS’s policy of targeting right-leaning groups, which played out over several years in Cincinnati, Washington and dozens of other cities and towns, was one of a bureaucracy caught in a morass of uncertainty and… Continue reading

Aaron Blake writes for WaPo.

WaPo reports.

WSJ: “The White House’s chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday. That disclosure has prompted a… Continue reading

Weigel: In theory, the civil-servant structure should make an organization less prone to an eruption of bias or of hive-mind behavior. But that’s not how it works. Liberals are more likely to enter the civil service, and to stick… Continue reading

TaxProf has an extensive collection of links.  Here is the most recent set of coverage (and this SNL skit).  Earlier coverage: IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups in 2012 Election (May 10, 2013) WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting … Continue reading

WSJ reports.

LA Times deep dive.

Extensive front-page NYT report.