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The article states that the IG was investigating the IRS, not the organizations, therefore, your second "if" statement is not possible. Furthermore, when this practice started(March 2010), there were less organizations filing for tax-exempt status than in 2009, so the data doesn't even back up why they would start using a groups name in their examinations, nor does it explain why they asked many of the questions of these groups and not all groups.
Mr. George told Treasury officials about the allegation as part of a routine briefing about ongoing audits he would be conducting in the coming year, and he did not tell the officials of his conclusions that the targeting had been improper, he said.
When Republicans asked Mr. Miller whether the targeting of conservative groups was divulged to Obama administration officials outside the I.R.S., Mr. Miller said “that would be a violation of law.”
“I would be shocked” if that occurred, he said.
As for the the more statement regarding more or less applications...IRS official Lerner stated
"[W]e saw a big increase in these kind of applications, many of which indicated that they were going to be involved in advocacy work," Lerner said.
Which means they started getting applications from a lot of political groups who were claiming to fit 501(c)(4) status and were spending their money on thing political in nature and not meeting the laundry list of things you can do to meet 501(c)(4) status.