When she was not picking tea leaves on a farm, she was kept in solitary confinement.

CNN: Halfway House No More

' Over a dinner of a chicken impaled and roasted on a spike, its head still attached, with fiddlehead ferns and whole sprouting peanuts, the owner of the plantation put a different angle to me: 'Picking tea - it's women's work - it always has been.

BBC: Here be dragons

While heads roll at the IRS for allegedly picking on Tea Party groups, the agency is being sued by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) for generally being too easy on 501(c)(4) organizations engaging in politics.

FORBES: IRS And 501(c)(4) Damned If They Do Damned If They Don't