The IRS scandal continues to get larger. That is true even just at the Cincinnati office which was the first group implicated. A local TV station is reporting some rather important news. It seems that the individual IRS agents who have been identified to date as carrying out the persecution of the conservative individuals and groups are not members of the same unit. Let's make that clear. We know now of at least four different IRS agents who harassed conservative and Tea Party groups. Each of these agents reported to a different manager, and each of those managers reported to a different area manager at the IRS. This puts at least twelve agents in the loop at IRS, and there are surely many more. It also means that these folks did not get together on their own to come up with the plan to target conservatives; the directive had to come down from higher up the chain of command.
All of the agents, managers and territory managers eventually reported to Cindy Thomas. Ms Thomas also happens to be the person at the IRS who gave confidential information to Pro Publica, the George Soros funded progressive organization that published confidential information to embarass the conservative groups. She is not, however, the IRS employee who purloined confidential information and gave it to the co-chair of the Obama re-election committee to use against Mitt Romney.
Couple this latest information with the news that we learned earlier today that an IRS internal investigation had uncovered the anti-Tea Party operation and reported it to the IRS management in March of 2012, and you have pretty convincing evidence that the conduct of the IRS was agency-wide and the result of directives coming from those higher up than the IRS.
All of the agents, managers and territory managers eventually reported to Cindy Thomas. Ms Thomas also happens to be the person at the IRS who gave confidential information to Pro Publica, the George Soros funded progressive organization that published confidential information to embarass the conservative groups. She is not, however, the IRS employee who purloined confidential information and gave it to the co-chair of the Obama re-election committee to use against Mitt Romney.
Couple this latest information with the news that we learned earlier today that an IRS internal investigation had uncovered the anti-Tea Party operation and reported it to the IRS management in March of 2012, and you have pretty convincing evidence that the conduct of the IRS was agency-wide and the result of directives coming from those higher up than the IRS.
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