it was all obama s fault. what he was getting to prove, as he put it, was based on excerpts of interviews his staff conducted with irs officials based in cincinnati. those included one unnamed employee saying i took all my direction from washington. well, conspiracy proved him wrong. issa was criticized at the time for selectively disclosing extremely limited portions of those interviews. why not release them all? why not release more? here s why. it turns out that others in the division including the manager of the group and the person responsible for screaming tax exempt applications directly contradict the cherry-picked statements disclosed by issa. elijah cummings released a new batch of transcripts over the weekend which tell a very different story from issa s. in them, the irs manager which cummings revealed is a republican a conservative was the decision to screen and centralized the review. answer, i do not believe that the screening of these cases had anything to do other than
is the guy in charge of that program, do you have any reason to believe that anyone in the white house was involved in the decision to screen tea party cases? answer, i have no reason to believe that. well, u.s. congressman elijah cummings joins us now. sir, this is so amazing because this wild goose chase is what it looks like now that supposedly led all the way to the white house although issa never gets you all the way there. he says i m working on that one. i just claimed. and now he s calling you. what s your phrase for your latest one, you re extreme and reckless in your assertions, and all you re doing is quoting the witness he refused to acknowledge which is the guy in charge who said i did it because it was a way to do things for consistency s sake. and we got no leadership. i m a conservative republican. that s right. and you know, chris, this is a witness that was called for ar inquiry by the republicans, republicans and democrats sat in on the inquiry and this gentleman s
executed. when you realize something like this is going on you think there should be a con census, let s fix this, fixing the faa problem so there wouldn t be long lines at the airplane. on the airplanes. people in good marriages, they re healthy and happy. these cutters, the people that these women aren t getting to vote very much, are they? well, they re not giving big campaign contributions and so they re really not politically apparently an important constituency which is just stunning. let s talk turkey. kim, how do you fight this? is there anybody you ve been able to find, we called it in wrestling, i guess, pressure points. i imagine these things. i didn t wrestle. but you look for the way to pin the person. how do you get the members of congress and say, look, some women are going to die this week because these shelters are closed their doors to them. that s exactly the message we re giving. we thad the state executive directors from nearly every state in the country al
they re paid liar. their spokesperson picture behind, he s still making up things about what happens and calling this local rogue. there s no indication, the reason that lois lerner tried to take the fifth is not because there s a rogue in cincinnati. it s because this is a problem that was coordinated in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters. and we re getting to proving it. a whole new english language from issa. in all likelihood, we re getting to proving it. in other words, he has nothing. that was house oversight committee chair darryl size is a. at his best and worst, he has nothing to offer here, asserting the irs scandal began in washington. apparently it didn t. this was supposed to be his smoking gun implicating washington and by inference the white house.
apparently what happened is he was he had screeners under him. in other words, that worked for him. one of the screeners came to him in february of 2010 and says look, boss, this is a tea we ve got a tea party case here and what they are asking for is they want tax exempt status. his boss, that is the self-described republican conservative republican said, you re right. we need to send this to washington. this is a high profile case. we want to make sure we are consistent. we want to make sure that other cases that may come in we treat them the same way. and let me tell you something, chris. this conservative republican manager is a guy who was simply trying to do his job and do it right. no doubt about it. he sat for almost six hours with republican and democratic staff and told us his story. and he made it clear that he was the one who sent the file, the initial tea party file up to the technical office of irs in washington. and then he okay, so this go ahead.