Court filings made public this week reveal that the IRS is still using the same criteria to target Tea Party and other conservative groups, despite a promise from IRS commissioner John Koskinen that the agency had stopped the practice. Washington Times: The IRS is refusing to recant the targeting criteria it used to single out tea party groups for intrusive scrutiny, according to court filings made public Wednesday that show the tax agency still struggling with the fallout from the scandal. At least three tea party groups are still awaiting approval from the IRS more than three years after agents publicly admitted they’d asked inappropriate questions and put the groups through unreasonable delays in obtaining tax-exempt status. Last month the IRS told both Congress and a federal judge that it would start processing the outstanding applications — but the agency has refused to say how or when, leaving the groups themselves...(Read Full Post)