IRS SCANDAL UPDATE: True The Vote Wins In DC Circuit.

The WaPo tried to blame simple incompetence back in June. But the DC Circuit says that “there is no factual history of such discriminatory acquisition of taxpayer information prior to the events giving rise to these cases.” It also says that it i “plain to the Inspector General, the district court, and this court that the IRS cannot defend its discriminatory conduct on the merits.”

The targeted the Tea Party movement because it threatened to bring runaway government under control. And a lot of GOP leaders were okay with that, because the Tea Party movement threatened to bring runaway government under control.

Walter Olson has been tweeting some thoughts.