mistake or too one damn thing that is not in compliance. i you do you re held responsible right then. so clearly not buying some of the excuses that mr. miller was giving. after the hearing, dave camp, the chairman of the committee, said he was struck by the arrogance that came across. called it disturbing, and said the negligent management practices at the irs were stunning, greg. greg: mike emanuel live. joining us now the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace. chris there was miller, and he admitted improper practices but vigorously denied any political motivation. is that going to be a pretty tough sell, not just to members of congress but to the american people? sure. because of the fact that sort of like, what do you believe? what i tell you or you re lying eyes? and people see that any group that had the name, tea party, or patriot, or 912 or talked about
zero cases had been denied. of the cases still open, some had been in progress for over three years and crossed two election cycles without resolution. of the 108 cases approved, 31 were tea party, 912, or patriot organizations. my final point is that the irs requested unnecessary information for many political cases. in fact, 98 of 170 cases that received followup requests for information from the irs had unnecessary questions. our evidence indicates that staff at the determinations unit in cincinnati sent these letters out with little or no supervisory review. the irs later determined these questions were unneeded but not until after media accounts and questions by members of congress arose in march of 2012. examples of the unnecessary information requested included the names of past and future
and the american taxpayer raises serious concerns about leadership at the irs. let s establish the facts that we do know. based on the report we know that for an 18-month period beginning in spring, 2010, irs employees in the determinations unit employed key words such as tea party, patriot, and 912 to target applications for tax-exempt status. these groups were then subjected to further irs investigation and document requests. irs employees later expanded their search to include groups concerned about government spending, debt, taxes, the constitution, the bill of rights, or trying to, and i quote, make america a better place to live, end quote. let me repeat that. people were targeted for trying to make america a better place to live.
our report issued earlier this week addresses three allegations. first that the irs targeted specific groups applying for tax-exempt status. second, that they delayed the processing of these groups applications and, third, that the irs requested unnecessary information from groups it subjected to special scrutiny. all three allegations were substantiated. the irs views inappropriate criteria to target for review tea party and other organizations based on their name and policy positions. this practice started in 2010 and continued to evolve until june of 2011. as a monitor shows, the irs was following inappropriate crite a criteria. let me read these criteria from a briefing held by the irs exempt organization in june of 2011. the criteria included the words tea party, patriots, or 912
that, you go with humiliation. what is he going to say about us. and he obviously doesn t have anything to say which will implicate the president or the white house. it does not end the public clam clamor. there will be an investigation. this story has legs but they did take an important first step. on benghazi, i actually think when you get all of these e-mails released, there are more still to come, but all these e-mails are so complex. and you re down in the weeds with this stuff. i think most people will say there doesn t seem to be a smoking gun here, doesn t seem to be a fire here. and i think that one is diminishing in size. the irs one is really still burning. yeah, david. because even though fine, the acting commissioner they get rid. but, again, going back to what i was talking to dana about, there must have been a bunch of people, not only executing this plan against tea party groups and 912 groups and patriot