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Lists of members and donors. congressional republicans call that unprecedented. in this irs questionnaire, a tea party group is asked to provide names of donees, recipients, and grantes. that makes even mild-mannered members of congress furious. >> how chilling is it for an organization to get a letter from the irs asking for its membership list? and that has nothing to do with the decision on whether or not tax-exempt status should be granted. >> reporter: what does that tell you? >> well, it raises questions about whether there is a political motivation here. >> reporter: congressional inves...

That i've ever seen or it was the irs willfully not telling congress the truth. >> i don't have a comment. >> reporter: acting irs commissioner steven miller was informed of the targeting last year but never told congress. >> how about answering our questions? >> reporter: on capitol hill, he refused to answer reporters' questions about why. now, miller is going to have to answer that question on friday when he testifies before the house ways and means committee. the inspector general report did answer one key question, which is whether or not this was politically motivated especially by the w...

Irs practice ofglin out tea party affiliated groups appears to have gone well beyond agents in the cincinnati, ohio office that handles tax-exempt applications, which the irs first suggested. jordan sikelow's law center represented 27 tea party groups that had trouble getting tax emmett status from the irs. he shared several lengthy questionnaires his clients got from irs offices in california and even washington, d.c. which he calls excessive. could it be that your clients shouldn't have tax-exempt status, that they are primarily doing political work not social welfare? the irs has not come t...

You heard erin cantor. huh heard if house speaker john boehner say that he's wondering who is going to go to jamie over this irs scandal. so let's go back to jonathan turley. we were just talking about that as we went to john boehner. he is wondering who is going to go to jail over this irs scandal. there is a criminal investigation now ongoing. so tell us again what the fbi would have to find to send someone to juveniail for this. >> no one. the irs alleged political targeting at various points in its history under republicans and democrats. people have fought gone to juvenile as a general ma...

Finding that this was done as a time saving measure. >> right. >> and irs workers simply misunderstood how the american people would take this. >> well, carol, i mean, it's kind of like the military. i mean, are you just going to have people that are in the infantry go out and do their own thing without taking orders from their leaders? no. you cannot tell me. and they said that it was just in cincinnati. well, now we find out there were higher officials in washington that knew about it. some of these letters are coming from california. every day we get a different answer to some of these ques...