Comment Re:Russia? Please... they were amateurs. (Score 3, Informative) 549
"Many groups were suppressed before and during the 2012 election by the IRS targeting"
Do you hear yourself? Political groups are not supposed to be tax exempt. That is what the IRS was looking for: "Is this 501c4 application for a civic group or a political group?" You say that these groups couldn't engage in political activity because of the IRS investigation. That means you are saying they are political groups, not civic groups, and therefore should not have received tax exempt status.
I'm not saying the IRS didn't make very serious mistakes: they did. But your claim that it effected the election is by definition off point.