The media tried to tell us two years ago that the notion of the IRS targeting conservative groups had been "debunked" and that the scandal had "fizzled." Neither of these notions was true. If anything, they were self-fulfulling prophecies. The media didn't want to discover the truth, so they didn't bother to dig for it, thus making it plausible (at least in their warped minds) to claim there was no story.
But there was, and what journalistic malpractice tried hard to cover up, a lawsuit by the pro-Israel advocacy group Z Street has uncovered. In the discovery phase of this litigation, we have learned that the IRS engaged in a great deal if obfuscation and foot-dragging designed to hide what transparency would clearly show. Not only were they targeting conservative groups for delays and harassment, they were openly talking to each other about how to do so, and how to hide the fact that they were doing so.