democrats. okay. and one of the excerpts we were given and i want to talk about how problematic it is to get excerpts. we know you interviewed these people for hours and you get little excerpts and it s hard to judge what s going on, but again from the irs from the cincinnati office. the investigator said so is it your perspective that ultimately the responsible parties for the decisions reported by the i.g, that is the decision that target tea party and patriot applications, are not in the cincinnati office? the employee says i don t know how to answer that question. i mean, from an agent standpoint, we didn t do anything wrong. we followed directions based on other people telling us what to do. investigator, and you ultimately followed directions from washington, is that correct? the employee, if direction had come down from washington, yes. the investigator, but with respect to the particular scrutiny that was given to tea party applications, those directions emanated from washing
democrats. okay. and one of the excerpts we were given and i want to talk about how problematic it is to get excerpts. we know you interviewed these people for hours and you get little excerpts and it s hard to judge what s going on, but again from the irs from the cincinnati office. the investigator said so is it your perspective that ultimately the responsible parties for the decisions reported by the i.g, that is the decision that target tea party and patriot applications, are not in the cincinnati office? the employee says i don t know how to answer that question. i mean, from an agent standpoint, we didn t do anything wrong. we followed directions based on other people telling us what to do. investigator, and you ultimately followed directions from washington, is that correct? the employee, if direction had come down from washington, yes. the investigator, but with respect to the particular scrutiny that was given to tea party applications, those directions emanated from washing