Bloomberg
by Richard Rubin
June 7, 2013

The Internal Revenue Service’s tougher scrutiny of small-government groups began with a tight focus on Tea Party groups in early 2010, according to IRS employees’ interviews with congressional investigators.

The effort was so concentrated on Tea Party groups that in addition to putting Democratic-leaning organizations’ applications back in the general pile, the IRS didn’t even give extra scrutiny to groups identifying themselves as conservative.

“It was more narrow than that,” said Elizabeth Hofacre, who handled the first batch of cases. “It was Tea Party.”

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