It’s been a little more than two years since a Treasury Department Inspector General report found the Internal Revenue Service used “inappropriate criteria” to target conservative nonprofit groups for extra scrutiny.
“It’s inexcusable, and Americans are right to be angry about it, and I’m angry about it,” said President Barack Obama in a statement issued May 15, 2013, the day after the report. “I’ll do everything in my power to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.”
The investigation into what happened and who is responsible has unfolded slowly, but lost amid ISIS, presidential campaigns, and international crises, congressional probes continue to uncover new information. This week, during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, Republican lawmakers honed in on an IRS official’s disclosure that the agency established a “special project team” to handle all...