IRS 501(c)(4) Debacle

I agree that any IRS employees who spent more time hassling right leaning organization applications to become a tax exempt organization in the 501(c)(4) regulations mishandled their government responsibilities.

The fact is that every organization deserves equal treatment from our government civil servants and any deviation from this ought to be managed by operational oversight.

What aggravates me more than anything is the Republican Parties insistence in making every governmental system failure a scandal. An even which warrants public flogging, often times before an internal government investigation has been completed.

Two points, first, there is an obligation in every organization to perform a root cause investigation when there is any system breakdown or failure within the organization to properly address the system failure as part of the continuous improvement cycle.

Second, when there is a possibility of criminal or civil liability, the facts need to be gathered by the appropriate law enforcement agency without undue influence obstructing or tainting the investigation.

The Republican Party in their zeal to damage their Democratic opponents routinely manages to disrupt both internal and legal investigative processes by bringing public, opinions, partial information, and innuendo. 

Disgusting in the case of the IRS treatment of citizens seeking 501(C)(4) tax exempt status since one of the very reasons for the lack of guidance in implementing this 1954 regulation is the IRS Agency change in language from the congressional passes legislation from  this:

Charities-&-Non-Profits/Other-Non-Profits/Social-Welfare-Organizations

To language that removes the word exclusively to a word with an entirely different meaning "primarily".

Have a read here about the entire story:

Congressional Oversight Needs Committee Hearing on Why Darrell Issa Failed in his Congressional Oversight Duties.