Newly released Internal Revenue Service documents show that officials gave extra scrutiny to not only groups with “Tea Party” in their name that were seeking tax-exempt status but also those with “progressive” or “Occupy,” suggesting the tax agency targeted conservative and liberal groups alike.
Watch Rachel Maddow explain in the video above.
“I think maybe this whole thing is over now – what do you think?” Maddow said on Monday’s show.
MS NOW staff