Very cleverly written. The title and the article imply that the lower level staff were paying closer attention to conservative groups based on ideology and that supervisors knew of it as it was going on. But if you read carefully (and I know that when it comes to Fox and Judicial Watch, in particular, you have to be very exact), that is not what this says. It says supervisors became aware of the fact that they were getting closer scrutiny as the controversy came to light, not as it was occurring. Big difference, but I get why Judicial Watch and Fox would obfuscate the difference.
My position remains the same. Get rid of the exemption. No political group can call itself a community group to get the tax break. That way no one can claim they were targeted just because there happened to be so many more of them in a given period than the other side. Eliminates abuse, or a claim of abuse.