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Remember though the right in the USA has been on a tear of paranoia.

This sounds an awful lot like a bureaucratic directive ("there's an awful lot of alleged tea party groups raising a lot of dough, keep an eye out") being reinterpreted through the conspiracy lens

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The right's paranoia is no worse than the paranoia the left spewed while Bush was in office. See: John Ashcroft, supposed spawn of Satan, or Hillary Clinton's vast right wing conspiracy theory. It's a rule of DC politics that whenever a new President is elected, the party that lost goes crazy until they're back in office (then they claim it's other guys that are crazy and paranoid).

At least we can all agree that this story, just like Benghazi, comes from, as you put it, crazy right-wing paranoia.

'We all' don't agree in the slightest, about this or the government's cynical attempt to blame the security failure in Benghazi on some random scapegoat's YouTube video. Speak for yourself and not others.

The audits were in an election year and we are now learning included many conservative budget organizations, not just tea party groups.

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