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Organizations should be used exclusively for the promotion of social welfare, and instead the more lenient, that it may be used primarily for social welfare. also asked the irs about how they reviewed applications filed by certain democratic and republican-leaning 501(c)(4)s. ms. lerner and seven irs colleagues spent six hours being interviewed on a bipartisan basis by subcommittee staff. ms. lerner failed to disclose the internal controversy over the search terms used by the cincinnati office to identify 501(c)(4) groups for further review. ms. lerner also failed to disclose that she was full...

Became aware of the agency's actions and whether or not she kept that information from congress. according to the inspector general she was alerted to tea party or patriots in their name june 2011. >> that's two years ago she is aware -- two years ago she's aware conservative groups are being targeted. >> she ordered the criteria to be revised, to make changes to that. "the wall street journal" reports in april and may of 2012 letters from miss lerner to republican lawmakers made no mention to the problems that surfaced. just two weeks ago lerner suggested she only found out about the issue in...

After being briefed on the expanded criteria in june 2011, the director for exempt organizations immediately directed the criteria changed. that's an important passage, because in other words, lerner heard what her subordinates had done and ordered them to cut it out, which they did for awhile, before eventually reverting back to form. despite the fact lerner was the one who instructed agents to stop the practice which has caused so much heart burn, she told reporters she learned of it from news reports in 2012. everyone else was called before the house oversight committee had to answer questi...

Specifically remitted to the earlier statements made under oath to this committee? >> i decline to answer that question for the reasons i've already given. >> all right, so far this irs scandal has cost a couple of political scalps. acting irs commissioner steve miller was forced to resign and he wasn't even running the irs at the time employees targeted tea party groups. lerner's boss, guy by the name of joseph grant, who got promoted to his position, quote, two days before the agency confirmed the targeting of tea party groups and conservative organizations applying for tax exempt status, th...

Most angry with, because she told congress when they were investigating back in 2011, 2011, 2012, directly communicating with letters, meetings, she found out about this back judge june 2011, did not tell congress for almost two years. kept it to herself, that is something they are absolutely furious about. and another thing, carol, we found out last week, the way she disclosed this to the public a couple of weeks ago, not by having a statement, but by planting a question at an american bar association meeting. those are some of the things that make her so key to this investigation. >> go ahea...