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The agent from that infamous cincinnati office that we heard so much about in the beginning of this will actually get a chance to tell her side of the story before a house committee. now, after the obama administration repeatedly blamed the targeting of these conservative groups on just a couple of rogue agents back in a small office the way it was portrayed in ohio, now we've got to hear from this woman. now, remember, the then-acting irs commissioner, stephen miller, talked about this when he testified back in may. watch. >> people in cincinnati decided let's start grouping these cases, let'...

Organizations involved in limiting expanding government, educating on the constitution and bill of rights. tea party groups long complained about irs delays along with improper requests for donor lists. it wasn't until may of 2013 with an inspector general's report coming that irs official lois lerner confessed the irs had gone too far and apologized. she argued, however, it was only because one irs office was swamped by a surge of applications, though at the time tea parties were targeted in 2010, the number of applications were actually falling. officials in washington insisted the improper ...

Report coming that lois lerner who later took the fifth to avoid testifying before congress confessed the irs had gone too far. >> we, i think at the irs, would like to apologize for that, it was not intentional. >> reporter: she argued the targeting was done only because workers were overwhelmed. >> we saw a big increase in these kinds of applications. >> reporter: there are several categories of tax exempt, but a status 501(c)4 did not surge at the time they started to target them in 2010. in 2009, there were 1751:00 a.m. indications, in 2010, a drop to 1735. in 2011, a small increase to 226...

Cases come through. they were acknowledging they were going to be engaged in politics. this was the time frame in 2010 when citizens united was out. there was a lot of discussion in the system about the use of c-4s. people in cincinnati decided, let's start grouping these cases. let's centralize these cases. the way they centralized it, troublesome. the concept of centralization not. we're not targeting these people in that sense. what we are doing is making sure that we bring them in and have people -- >> let me ask you this, you said incorrect. but not untruthful. >> yeah i -- >> he was not ...

That someone saw some tea party faces come through. they were acknowledging they were going to be engaged in politics. this was the time frame in 2010 when citizens united was out. there was a lot of discussion in the system about the use of c 4s. people in cincinnati decided let's start grouping these cases. let's centralize these cases. the way they centralized it, troublesome. the concept not. we're not targeting these people in that sense. what we are doing is making sure that we bring them in and have people -- let me ask you this. you said incorrect but not untruthful. >> yeah. >> was he...