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Include tea party or other named organizations. finally, in may of 2012 after learning that the criteria had again been changed, the executive, the exempt organization's director of rulings and agreement changed the criteria to be consistent with laws and regulations, excuse me. the organizations selected for review for significant split campaign intervention, again, 298, in all, experienced substantial delays in the processings of their applications. the organizations experiencing these delays including tea party organizations, patriot organizations, 9/12 organizations among other organizatio...

Allegations. first, that irs targeted specific groups applying for tax-exempt status. second, that they delayed the processing of these groups applications, and third, that the irs requested unnecessary information from groups it subjected to special scrutiny. all three allegations were substantiated. the irs used inappropriate criteria to target for review tea party and other organizations based on their name and policy positions. this practice started in 2010 and continued to evolve until june of 2011. as the monitor shows, the irs was following inappropriate criteria. let me read to you the...

Around the corner. >> the timing on that speech for the president, not great. bill: key words from the irs. here's the target. tea party, patriots, 9/12 project. government debt or spending. government taxes, education about how to make america a better place to live. you put that together, how you make a delay of groups trying to organize two or three years that spans two election cycles and makes you scratch your head and wonder what's up. >> that is absolutely extraordinary. that is the one of the first parts of this whole scandal that is so troubling the fact that they have subjected to su...

There was shorthand used, bolo, be on the lookout was a code for tea code for tea party, patriot, 9/12. this was embedded in the policy of what was happening at the irs. one of the issues i look at in terms of crisis communication, it is dribbling out. >> the attorney general is just now beginning to answer questions. let's go to the justice department. >> asking you to return those records and destroy all copies. will you consider doing so? >> if i can still remember all the questions i'm sure. i testified in june 2012 that i had been interviewed by the fbi in connection with this matter. and...

>> brandon mets. >> he went to the same -- trained at the same place. the coach there at that gym said they were best friends. >> best friends. >> also i spoke with middlesex prosecutor's office today and they confirmed that that killing, the slaying of those three it looked like somebody let them in. there was not a forced entry. so u. have got friends, you have got no forced entry. you have got -- and the third thing that was a little bit strange is the that slain terrorists did not go to the funeral of the supposed best friend. that seemed to be odd. >> bill: there is one more thing. the mu...