The issue wasn't denial, it was the issuing of hugely onerous lists of harassing questions intended to delay the processing of these groups' applications, thus keeping them from being processed. Not denied, NOT APPROVED, either.

You can't say the groups were or weren't denied, because they were kept in limbo, on purpose, for months and sometimes years. As good as denied, but actually better, because they couldn't appeal that non-denial, limbo condition.

And you're making stuff up. Who said they were denied? They weren't denied their status as non-profits, they were denied the same level of access and service as their liberal counterparts. Deliberate, purposeful, and unconstitutional unequal treatment under the law.

Sure, that's unreasonable. But the actually unbelievable part is that investigators had six more people whose email they wanted to collect, and - shockingly! - there was also a failure of storage for those same people, and those records were also beyond reaching.

Unbelievable, but sure as hell convenient for the administration. Unbelievable, and completely predictable for "the most transparent administration in history."

Yeah, facts like six other failures of storage for emails for six other people's mail the investigators want to read? What a crazy coincidence. But facts are facts, right?

And please provide a list of hundreds of OWS-flavored groups that had their applications deliberately steered into limbo (not approved, not denied) using tactics like asking the organizers for lists of all of the people in their groups, what books they read, what they think about - you know, the same sort of stuff that was asked of the conservative groups whose applications were deliberately kept on ice past the election cycle in question. So, please - all of those OWS groups in the same status, and be specific. The IRS doesn't have such a list, because there isn't one (as there is with the conservative groups that were abused by that agency). So you must have a large list that nobody else does. Do tell! Specifically.

It's worse than that. The investigators also want to see the correspondence involving six other people whose activity could shed light on the matter. And what a surprise, those six other people also had storage failures, and their records have also been lost. Shocking, huh.

Why are you lying? Hundreds of conservative groups had their applications deliberately delayed (past the election cycle) while progressive groups were pushed right through. Progressive groups were not subjected to illegal inquiries about the books their members read, what they think about, whether or how they pray, and more. The reason the IRS came out (when it was clear this was going to become public) and apologized for mistreating hundreds of conservative groups was because that's what happened. You're trying to wish it away, just like the administration.

If the opposite had happened (a conservative administration was running the IRS, and it was hundreds of progressive groups' applications tied up for years because of the names of the groups, and group organizers were told to respond with lists of all members, what books those members read, etc), you'd be shrieking at the top of your lungs, and you know it.

Yes, that would definitely take out the drone, and would probably get the LiPo battery nicely on fire, too, as it comes crashing down in urban Brazil. And certainly no danger, except for possible eye damage to someone a hundred meters away, and that whole whatever-the-equivalent-is-in-Brazil part where discharging a firearm in town and/or at someone else's property is a For Real felony. Otherwise, excellent plan.

Yeah, but that would just convince them that they're right about their superiority and entitlement. They're already bad enough, that way.

Yeah, except I notice exactly the same pattern. A lot.

It's not about no need to compensate, it's about feeling holier than thou about how green they are (if nobody counts their toxic batteries), and thus feeling entitled to double the parking area so that they don't get the same door dings as everyone else.

It was inevitable: Peak Hybrid had to happen. It's getting more and more difficult to extract crude hybrid from the lower levels of the tax code, which makes it more expensive to dole out. And, they're running out of room in the Whole Foods parking lot, where things are getting real, man.

They, like most businesses that do better when the economy as a whole is doing better, have a vested interest in more people throughout the society having some sort of actual clue about how businesses operate, what money is, where jobs come from, that sort of thing.

Yet another bigoted Progressive, showing the true colors and demeanor of that demographic. Thank you for being as predictable as you are contemptible and ignorant.

These were not religious organizations, nor were they applying for non-profit status in the context of religious activity. They didn't mention religious affiliation in their applications or mission statements. Just like their liberal-leaning counterparts, who were NOT asked the very same things.

What part of the tax code are you thinking of, exactly, that has them asking conservative individuals which books they read while not asking their progressive counterparts the same questions? Please be specific.

The whole point of the scandal (about which you are clearly uninformed, or about which you are being deliberately disingenuous and deceptive) is that the IRS put applying conservative groups through the ringer specifically to delay their activities through then-upcoming election cycle. They dragged out conservative-sounding applications for months or years through an intimidating, recurring process of illegally asking for information like personal information about group members' lifestyles, the books they read, their personal religious musings, and other complete BS. It wasn't about approving or denying the groups' non-profit status, it was about keeping them in limbo while more quickly approving groups that were more likely to back the administration before the election.

You really think the word scandal needs quotes around it, because none of that was real or mattered? Or are you dismissive of that illegal treatment because you, like the administration, just don't happen to like the thinking of the fellow citizens that were abused in that way?

You are, to put it simply, lying.

The agency deliberately put conservative groups through a years-long tedium of intrusive personal questions. They asked them, for example, about what books their members were reading. Progressive non-profits were ushered through the system in a fraction of the time, while conservative groups were delayed and intimidated as a matter of policy (you know, the very thing the IRS "apologized" for deliberately doing to specific groups).

Your contentions have been thoroughly debunked, which you have to know. Which makes your post anything but the "informative" that it's been modded, since you're being purposefully deceptive.

No, they found a single email from him to the general council's office, asking about legal issues around a training program. The government hasn't found/verified anything such thing as the fiction you just described.