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It was all obama's fault. what he was getting to prove, as he put it, was based on excerpts of interviews his staff conducted with irs officials based in cincinnati. those included one unnamed employee saying i took all my direction from washington. well, conspiracy proved him wrong. issa was criticized at the time for selectively disclosing extremely limited portions of those interviews. why not release them all? why not release more? here's why. it turns out that others in the division including the manager of the group and the person responsible for screaming tax exempt applications directl...

Is the guy in charge of that program, do you have any reason to believe that anyone in the white house was involved in the decision to screen tea party cases? answer, i have no reason to believe that. well, u.s. congressman elijah cummings joins us now. sir, this is so amazing because this wild goose chase is what it looks like now that supposedly led all the way to the white house although issa never gets you all the way there. he says i'm working on that one. i just claimed. and now he's calling you. what's your phrase for your latest one, you're extreme and reckless in your assertions, and ...

They're paid liar. their spokesperson picture behind, he's still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. there's no indication, the reason that lois lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there's a rogue in cincinnati. it's because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters. and we're getting to proving it. >> a whole new english language from issa. in all likelihood, we're getting to proving it. in other words, he has nothing. that was house oversight committee chair darryl size is a. at his best and worst, he...

Apparently what happened is he was -- he had screeners under him. in other words, that worked for him. one of the screeners came to him in february of 2010 and says look, boss, this is a tea -- we've got a tea party case here and what they are asking for is they want tax exempt status. his boss, that is the self-described republican conservative republican said, you're right. we need to send this to washington. this is a high profile case. we want to make sure we are consistent. we want to make sure that other cases that may come in we treat them the same way. and let me tell you something, ch...

In february of 2010 and says look, boss, this is a tea -- we've got a tea party case here and what they are asking for is they want tax exempt status. his boss, that is the self-described republican conservative republican said, you're right. we need to send this to washington. this is a high profile case. we want to make sure we are consistent. we want to make sure that other cases that may come in we treat them the same way. and let me tell you something, chris. this conservative republican manager is a guy who was simply trying to do his job and do it right. no doubt about it. he sat for al...