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When ipsophakto comments, "There's nothing illegal about spending money to further interests, liberal or conservative. Interests are interests," the implication is that the Citizens United ruling made all public information and filings about campaign-related spending totally secret. Hardly. The activities documented by PR Watch clearly indicate an elaborate money-laundering scheme -- which is precisely the kind of activity that was run in the '70s by the Committee to Re-Elect the President on behalf of the Nixon campaign. Nixon resigned in disgrace when the full extrent of these activities became known. Unregulated or underregulated campaign funding is detrimental to the public interest and democracy itself. Gutting campaign finance laws, as the current wingnut majority on the Supreme Court has been doing, helps nobody in the long run. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and hiding in the shadows will only work so long. Lois Lerner, by the way, was actually a Bush appointee, and the IRS investigated groups on the right and left. Ironically, the only group that ultimately faced sanction was one on the left.