May 3 2012 News Today

Going on. one by the ig and one internal, congress was misled, the american people were misled. just yesterday the committee interviewed the director of exempt organizations rulings and agreement division of the irs. while a tremendous amount of attention is centered on the inspector generals investigation. the committee learned that she in fact participated in an irs internal investigation that concluded in may of 2012, may 3, 2012 and found essentially the same thing that mr. george found more...

Clearly it was congressional interest in this issue, press reports, and are you saying he was not informed of this? >> so lets divide the world to a couple of pieces here. the list that was used and there was the processing of the cases. at that time, we were aware there were issues in the processing of the cases, we were not aware of the list. i asked in late march, after the hearing i believe, for to us go in, take a look, because i thought there were problems in processing the cases, they cam...

>> may 3, 2012. >> how were you made aware? >> i was made aware of not the targeting, but aware of the process that was described in the tigda report when i asked some of our people to go out and take a look at the cases, subsequently to the -- to the public discussion over broad letters coming out. >> that was your role as acting director as well as deputy commissioner? >> i was deputy at that time. >> when you say you asked some of our people who would that have been? >> i asked the senior tec...