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But beyond that, the report, you cut through all the bureaucratic language and its pretty blistering. the people who did this in cincinnati, the determinations unit, didnt even understand what the rules were for tax exempt organizations. the report says that in multiple passages and these are the people making these decisions. the inappropriate criteria lasts for 18 months. the high level officials become aware of this and try to change the criteria, theyre being asked multiple questions by memb...

Involving irs and friday, we first started getting reports of alleged wrong doing of the irs, specifically on how it came to how acts were evaluating different groups applying for tax exempt status. that they singled out group conservative groups, flagging scrutiny on their applications. since then, theres been some indication that the irs official who first apologized on friday also had tried to fix this problem last year. also, the white house has denied any knowledge of what was going in the ...

Was a problem even though the irs said there was a problem and now tonight, you finally get the inspector generals report that purports to explain what happened. one of the questions, whose idea this was any way. officials stated the criteria were not influenced by any organization outside the irs. within the last hour, president obama has released a statement calling the reports findings quote, intolerable and inexcusab inexcusable. he said he directed his treasury secretary to hold these respo...

Youre going to see congressional committees saying we wrote you letters about this. you wrote us back and theres like three or four letter from the acting commissioner talking about the lengthy and pain staking process the irs uses for evaluating these sort of applications and theres not a whiff of a mention weve got a serious problem on our hands. >> even though those officials answering those questions we know had been briefed on this problem happening at the lower level in the agency, right? ...