[TLI]

Paz said agents in Cincinnati openly talked about handling "tea party" cases, but she thought the term was merely shorthand for all applications from groups that were politically active — conservative and liberal.

Of course!

Because everybody just "knows" that "TEA Party" is really just slang for OWS, MoveOn, National Council of La Raza, etc.

Gotcha.

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[Timber Rattler]

This comment below the story nailed it:

Ya but the question begging to be answered is, how many organizations containing the words "fair" "ACORN" "Tides" "Progress" "Union" were held for extra scrutiny?

[muawiyah]

Duh, there are literally hundreds of thousands of government employees who are simply apolitical, don’t care about it, have nothing to do with it, and whose eyes skip right over political issues. So, it is possible. They are like the 90 million American adults who never even vote!