May 13, 2013 (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) (WLS) -- Tea party units around the state want a major investigation to find out if the President or his White House staff had anything to do with the Internal Revenue Service's scrutiny of tea party not-for-profit applications.
After the tea party's success in 2010, the grassroots members had no idea whose cage they had rattled.
The IRS admits its computers searched its not-for-profit applications for the words "tea party" and "patriot" among others, then singled out those groups for added scrutiny: READ MORE: