96 specifically had tea party or 912 in their names, these conservative names. that s the point. there were these triggers that sent the irs to do their stuff and there hasn t been an fbi investigation of that. is that shameful? it is. the obama administration hopes to run out the clock thinking a new scandal will take the place here. i think they are misguided. the reality is a lot of emotion was tied up in the 2012 election and a lot of people understandably feel the irs has blunted the obama ground game and may have changed the result. the longer they wait, the longer they delay the scandal grows. the fact is the fbi director seemed unprepared to even answer questions about this when he was questioned about it long of a it became public. let s pay a slot for those who have forgotten about fbi director muller answering what he was doing about this problem. tell me who the lead investigator is? off the top of my head no. this is the most important
cover up. one of the concerns was a political issue. the whole notion that this was a terrorist attack, which was was, undermines the narrative. she went up, and it had been put together at the state department. but i think that was a huge mistake. what she did was a huge mistake. i think she lacks credibility, and she doesn t need to be confirmed. which she be a national security advisor. but somebody s judgment who was so flawed. let s go to the irs targeting of groups with the name tea party, patriot, or 912 in their names, employees that have been interviewed have had conflicting
was the cincinnati based employee who devised that method on his own. he says, quote, tea party was just a term, but tea parties by another name may have been something else. there s other terms i used. one was patriots and 912 projects. at one point i used the word tea but t-e-a doesn t get you very far, so i had to watch my queries and zero in on what i wanted. how high up the chain does it go? not very far. his manager was asked i m getting you did not instruct screening agent to use those terms in the march 2010 time period. response, i did not. the interviewer continues i m guessing you also did not instruct anyone other than screening agent to search for tea party cases in spring 2010 using those type, those criteria. his answer, i did not. let me ask you. if you had to write a time capsule statement of what you know as ranking member on the committee, the top democrat, it seems to me if you put together the raw information and the ig report which started this rigmarole and you
and then he went to his screeners an said look, i also want you to look for other case that might be similar because we want to treat them all the same. keep in mind now conservative republican did this. and again, trying to do his job right. and so one of the screeners pulled together the cases. they said, well, maybe we need to change to get some other terms. that s where the 912 came in and the patriot came in as types of words that would be target words and that person has said that it was not about any political motivation. they were simply trying to do their job. why don t you release all the transcripts? i am chairman issa had said on another network last week that he would release the transcripts. as you know, chris, you worked on the hill. i try to give deference to the chairman. he is the chairman. but i have said on another network and i ll say it tonight
according to the transcripts it was the cincinnati based employee who deviced that method on his own. he says tea party was just a erm but tea parties by another name may have been singh else. there s other terms i used. one was patriots and 912. at one point i used the word tea so i had to watch my queries and zero in on what i wanted. high up the chain does it go? not very far. his manager was asked i m getting you did not instruct screening agent to use those terms in the march 2010 time period. response, i did not. the interviewer continues i m guessing you also did not instruct anyone other than screening agent to search for tea party cases using those types, those criteria. his answer, i did not. if you had to write a time capsule statement of what you know as ranking member on the committee, the top democrat, seems to me if you put together the wrong information in the id