I have that same nagging question.

I guess the liberal media believe it was OK to snoop on Fox and other more conservative news sources, but it's a real scandal if they do it to liberal news sources. There needs to be a loud call for Obama to replace Eric Holder and kick him out of office. Eric Holder works for the President. Just one of the scandals that Holder has overseen would have canned any other DOJ Attorney General, yet here we are again listening to stonewalling that taken at face value, (which no one does), would make Holder the most incompetent Attorney General in our history.

Obama has used government resources to dissuade and destroy his enemies since his early political career took root. He destroyed his rival, Alice Palmer, and other opponents to gain his first political office in the Illinois Senate....he challenged the signatures on Palmer's nominating petitions. And he even went beyond that: He challenged the petitions for all three of the opponents. Obama used government red tape and chicanery to kill Hillary Clinton's bid for the Democrat Presidential nominee. "At the time of the caucuses, many Hillary supporters were livid with the tactics of the Obama crew at many sites when they routinely denied entry to Hillary supporters. Same thing happened in Nevada and other caucus states." http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/01/hillary_accused_obama_of_cheat.html I think we have the reincarnation of J. Edger Hoover in Mr. Obama.

Barack Obama has become our modern day J. Edger Hoover. He is the ghost of this patriarch of federal power abuse. Using the full power of the federal government to boost his personal power and status.

This time it looks like they're right??? They were right about Obamacare; Benghazi; Fast and Furious; bogus stimulus job creation; unemployment numbers; religious persecution; insider access to federal dollars; now government targeting of conservatives....and then there are those that still believe we have an illegal as President. The latter has been put down and ridiculed by Obama, but then so have all the others. There's should be no solace or belief in this Administrations words.

"...ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) ...gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending....Although this is a surprising admission, it is a commendable one from one of our liberal counterparts." Commendable??? I don't think so. This is survival. A group knowing that a full investigation is commencing is simply trying to get out from in front of the bus that is about to roll over those involved in this scandal.

The White House has become a house of cards and it's starting to crumble.

You forgot about those crazy right-wing birthers.

The next question would be "Did this/these individuals act alone or was there influence external to the IRS that gave those instructions to be carried out?".

The next crucial question is "Who, in the Washington DC office, did these instructions to target conservative groups originate from?". As we well know, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. All federal political power corruption originates and ends in Washington.

John, I'm not sure about this column that you write each week. It has become obvious to me that I personally have a problem with such a high exposure to liberal idiocy. You have produced a form of concentrated liberal with this column and it could be as lethal as radiation poisoning. Question for you, do they make a liberal geiger counter to check yourself for lethal doses?