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I want to apologize on behalf of the international revenue service for the mistakes we made. i think foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their work load selection. the listing described in the report while intolerable was a mistake and not an act of partisanship. >> we have been watching the house ways and means committee investigating whether the irs targeted tea party groups unfairly. joining me is diane black of tennessee, a member of the house ways and means c...

Statement before i can take your questions. first and foremost as acting commissioner i apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes we made and poor service we provided. the affected organizations and american public deserve better. partisanship or even the perception of it has no place at the irs. it cannot even appear to be a consideration in determining tax-exempt goes of an organization. i do not believe that partisanship motivated the people who engaged in the pract...

Power that it would turn its full force, its full might to harass and intimidate and threaten an average american who only wants her voice and their voices heard? mr. miller, who in the irs is responsible for targeting conservative organizations? >> so let me first say i cannot speak to a given case. and that we talked about 6103. >> this is not just one case. you know we are talking about the whole list inspector general put up there. who is responsible for targeting these groups? >> so, again,...

People in the exempt organization in cincinnati, the lower level people who were working on this, he said no. was there any outside influence? and he said no. so when the chairman, and i brought his languaglanguage, st off his opening remarks saying its the latest example of culture of cover-ups in this administration, there was no evidence today to support that. it was politicization of a very, very sad chapter by people who were works and who misworked. >> lets take a look. heres steve miller....

And how you hear every word that the president or door any says. >> bret: lets break this down. first to the irs which seem to be getting lots of attention on both sides of the aisle. the i.g. report, we obtained it late in the afternoon. may 2010, the determination begin developing a spreadsheet that would be known as be on the lookout listing, bolo listing that was key tea party applications. it begin training specialists on issues to be aware of including tea party cases. by july 2010, determ...

More formal, issuing an internal be on the look out or bolo listing for local organizations in the tea party movement. as a result, tea party activists reported feeling harassed when applying for tax-exempt status. cincinnati tea party founder justin bing thomas told carol costello lengthy questionnaires got personal, even mentioning his name. >> why, what is it being collected for, where is it being stored? >> reporter: it wasnt until this past friday, more than three years later, lois learner,...

Thats when they head to the bridge to look for the captain, only to find hes missing. they make mayday calls and then continue to search for the captain. >> i found the captain sitting underneath the stairwell just smoking. and he just didnt seem to be almost aware of the severity of the situation. and i asked him could he come to the bridge and help us to liaise with the rescue ships because we didnt really know how to answer the questions they were asking us. and he was just saying, no, not ne...

The fact checker column beautifully and hilariously illustrates the range of such cable, e-mail, that bear a secretary of states name. they include an advisory about a shortage of hotel rooms in liberia. january 2009. that was also signed, if you will, by secretary condoleezza rice in that case. a listing of new office phone numbers in the brazzaville embassy in the republic of the congo signed again by secretary clinton. perhaps the best of all, a cable signed, if you will, by clinton about e-m...

That was also signed, if you will, by secretary condoleezza rice in that case. a listing of new office phone numbers in the brazaville embassy in the republic of the congo signed again by secretary clinton. perhaps the best of all, a cable signed, if you will, by clinton about e-mail etiquette, like tips avoiding all-cap letters. its perceived as shouting she said, or somebody did. i know firsthand all sorts of cables come signed by the secretary of state. when i was in the peace corps in africa...

>> secretary of state was just wrong. she said she did not participate in this, and yet only a few months before the attack, she outright denied security in her signature in a cable april 2012. >> well, the charge is outrageous for anybody who knows what theyre talking about. the secretary of states signature, by way, her name appears on all sorts of cables that two out. her nail. to prove it, heres the wording from the state department handbook. "the communications center will place the name of...