NYT's Barstow worked six months on Tea Party probe

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"I think we all understood that when you embark on something like this, it's not like you can go to a GAO report and read up on it quickly," David Barstow tells Greg Marx. "This is precisely the kind of story and precisely the kind of topic where having the resources and the time to go deep is not just a luxury, but really a necessity, in order to do a decent job explaining a movement that people are struggling to get a grip on."