Newly released documents to the House Reform Committee show the claim of two rogue IRS agents targeting conservative from the Cincinnati IRS office is, well, ridiculous.

When/if all investigations are complete this will be more than just the IRS;  This approach will also reconcile the example of Gibson Guitar targeting and many other rabid overreaches of this administration.

(WASHINGTON DC – VIA DAILY MAIL)  Interviews with IRS employees have  established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue  Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative  organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt  status.

Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House  Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement  on CNN Sunday morning.

‘As late as last week,’ he said, ‘the [Obama]  administration was still trying to say the [IRS targeting scandal] was from a  few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is that they were  directly being ordered from Washington.’

A committee spokesman sent MailOnline partial  transcripts of two interviews with unnamed IRS workers about the agency’s  actions in early 2010, on whose testimony Issa based his bombshell  statement.

One of those interviewees said it was  ‘impossible’ for a few IRS agents to have orchestrated such widespread partisan  targeting on their own.

The IRS dream team: Steven Miller (L) and Douglas Shulman (R) testified on Capitol Hill on May 21 about the agency's years-long practice of targeting right-wing tax exemption applicants

‘Did [your supervisor] give you any  indication of the need for the search [for tea party groups], any more context?’  one IRS witness was asked in a closed-door interview.

‘He told me that Washington, D.C., wanted  some cases,’ came the reply.

The employee, who said he or she was  evaluating 40 such applications for tax-exempt status from conservative  organizations at the time, said ‘some went to Washington. D.C. … I sent  seven.’  (read more)

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