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Citizens based on viewpoint is wrong and even criminal. >> geraldo. >> geraldo: go ahead. >> we have hundreds of groups coming forward. my group tea party patriots was affected. we were victimized and discriminated against. these are people who have over the 40s of three or four years have only brought in $1,700. these are like mom and pop little organizations and they were targeted. and there are thousands of people who just decided to give up because they didn't want to go through the trouble of getting harassed or are giving out private information of their members list and donor lists and ...

Martha: all right. so that is his argument but what we're hearing from the other side, from chairman camp, who launched into a line of questioning that had to do with the national organization for marriage, wanting to know if donor lists for that group were shared. now just to give everybody some context on this, the suggestion is that during the 2012 electoral cycle that mitt romney was discovered to have given, $10,000 donation to this group. so camp is digging deeper here. he is wondering if donor lists were provided for purposes that may have had something to do with the campaign. so there...

Uptick. >> you have already indicated that you agreed with the findings of fact in the ig report. it says there was no uptick. >> i don't. >> how do you reconcile this. >> i have got to look at the numbers sir, i can't speak to that. >> you don't agree with the ig report. >> i would have to look at the ig report on that. >> mr. miller, in june of 2011, ms. learner learned about the practice it of targeting conservative groups for compelled disclosure of donor lists and other information. she learned that was going on for more than a year. where upon she claims she attempted to put a stop to it...

Tweet they send out, what their membership lists are, their donor lists are, homes and addresses. one of the greatest questions was, will anyone be running for political office in the future? anyone who is associated with the board of directors, as if you have to tell them what you're thinking about possibly doing. so we've got now out of our 27 clients, 15 we got approved. ten we're still waiting on. two drew. some are ready to take legal action and i think that will be filed as other as next week. >> neil: let's say the lawyer is representing me, the irs, i can say, they're going to ask me, ...

Organizations know that you are going properly vetted. but irs asked for lists. we started talking about organizations, we knew something was going on. there was a couple red flags raised. thirds round came, probably about six months to a year ago where they asked for every email every social media, everything the tea party.net had written out to any of the donor lists or to anybody that signed up for emails. at that point we know there was definitely an issue. like i said, who would have thought that the united states government would target their own people. >> alisyn: and your example highl...