IRS Chief: inappropriate screening included search terms ‘Progressive,’ ‘Occupy,’ ‘Israel’.
The AP piece I linked to presents this as somehow, Hey, it’s even worse than we thought, they were targeting everyone!
“Werfel’s comments suggest the IRS may have been targeting groups other than tea party and other conservative organizations for tough examinations to see if they qualify.”
But if they were targeting obviously political groups across the political spectrum, the story seems rather different than what we’ve been led to believe.
Andrew Ross Sorkin: “I’d Almost Arrest Glenn Greenwald.” Watch.
I certainly don’t think it’s totally generational. But I think there’s an element of it that is. TPM Reader MB shares his thoughts …
What I find most compelling about the Snowdon affair is what it says about changing generational attitudes toward foreign policy–in particular, I feel that it’s the first major salvo in Generation Y’s war on realist foreign policy.
