If the screening criteria weren't politically motivated, then it follows that at least some Liberal and Progressive groups would have been caught up in this mess as well. Were they?
Of course. That's why I said that everyone knows the score (everyone with a brain that is). That does not mean that the MSM will admit it.
Another thing they teach you in the government is this: if classified information becomes public, it is still classified. The MSM is the same way about information damaging to leftists like Obama. Even though everyone knows the score, the MSM won't admit it, and will go on like nothing happened. People on the right who make an issue of the facts will be treated as kooks and extremists; their credibility will be impugned even though they are speaking the truth. The MSM has used this tactic dozens of times during the Obama administration, and they used it during the Clinton administration too.
The reason they are doing this is because their aim is to keep the low-information voters in line. At this point, conservatives of the sort that were mobilized by Richard Viguerie to help elect Ronald Reagan are outnumbered by the LIVs, and immigration law is being changed to allow huge numbers of new LIVs into the country.
This is how the left has responded to the "Reagan Revolution." They have waged demographic warfare on the Conservative movement, and they are in the process of winning that war. With the help of many Republicans in congress, I'm bound to say.