Organizations were singled out because they included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.

I thought the issue was that they were classified as 501(c)(4) organizations which, at least nominally, are supposed to promote "social welfare". Including political campaigning and raising money for your ideological brethren is a pretty broad reading of the law, I think.

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