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• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Internal Revenue Service's scandal - Brief article

The IRS story, like the Benghazi talking points story, is not a political scandal, but a bureaucratic one. The Washington Post's David Ignatius explains: "What you find [in the Benghazi emails between the State Department and the CIA] is a 100-page novella of turf-battling and backside-covering."

The question to ask about the IRS is not whether too many of its employees are politicized, but whether...