[plain talk]

Thanks. As I understood they filtered applications and selected some for more detailed review. Analogous to auditing in that a subset is singled out. If you look at the link of IRS speeches I posted (some go back to 2008) I think similar effors have been going on a while. Filtering based on tea party ttype names is what was new and these reviews should have been in addition to whatever selective reviews have been going on for years.

Hopefully our guys will get broad stats and info on their review practices. everyone is focusing on this latest volly of reviews but this has probably been going on for years

[uncommonsense]

"As I understood they filtered applications and selected some for more detailed review."

As more info is brought to major media outlets, the IRS conservative review process was designed to stonewall ALL profiled applications so that their organizations would burn through all of their start up funds and peter out.

There were massive delays in the initial IRS response back to the applicant... then successive rounds of increasingly intrusive questions that guaranteed no "Tea Party type" organization would ever get off the ground - ever...

There are a LOT of details here on FR, which proves the targeted attack on only those organizations opposed by the ObaMao administration - verbatim: Tea Party, Fiscal Responsibility, Less Government, Pro-Isreal, Teach Constitution or Bill of Rights...

[uncommonsense]

Here's the link to the IG report:

IRS Inspector General Report on Tax-Exempt Scrutiny of Political Organizations

This is from the report:

Figure 3: Criteria for Potential Political Cases (June 2011)

• “Tea Party,” “Patriots” or “9/12 Project” is referenced in the case file
• Issues include government spending, government debt or taxes
• Education of the public by advocacy/lobbying to “make America a better place to live”
• Statement in the case file criticize how the country is being run