On his show last evening, Mark Levin read from the transcript of an interview then-Senator Barack Obama gave to Alan Colmes on June 28 2006, in which Senator Obama — in discussing the Bush Administration’s criticism of the New York Times for publishing leaked classified information — concluded that the press shouldn’t be molested or pressured by government and should be left alone to do its job.  That is, the

To nutshell even further:  the Determinations Unit of the IRS, which is manned by “determination specialists,” didn’t understand the rules for determinations, of which unit they were the specialists, and therefore burdened all of the groups with “TEA Party” in their names. Moreover, no really really high-ranking IRS officials knew any of this, despite reports to the contrary that are backed by paper trails, and even if they did, they

So, here’s my takeaway from the IG report on the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups:  in passive language, and thanks to insufficient managerial oversight, suddenly, ex nihilo, spreadsheets were developed that put conservative organizations into the exempt division’s cross hairs. This was done, ex nihilo, because [?] wanted to make sure that conservative-sounding groups — with triggers that included “patriot”, “TEA Party,” “constitution,” “limited government,” or some suggestion the the