cincinnati, and said that no political appointees were in charge. william wilkins was appoint it bid president obama to the irs and we heard these indicates were kicked up to him when they were first coming out after the 2010 house election when tea party groups got the republicans to take over the house, and then they were kicked back down to these employees in cincinnati, who were given orders and they were just following through with the orders. we re going to stay on this story. thank you so much. thank you. didn t say a word about bolos you knew were about progressive or liberal organizations even though you just admitted today that you were aware of that as of your may 22nd testimony. aim correct in that, mr. george? are democrats trying to take eyes off the target by targeting the inspector general instead? after being grilled by democrats for hours. this is russell george s response.
involved in politically sensitive material? all the hearings we have seen, there has been a failure to identify a single person in the irs or in the white house that gave the direct disto target directive to target the tea party group. is that part of the scandal nice, smoking gun? we re trying to get to the bottom of it. attempts to ask lois lerner questions failed. the attempt to get to the bottom is not success. , not the fault of the republicans. now the left wings groups are saying the progressives were targeted as well. the reason this story is front and center is conservative and tea party groups came out and said we had all that s paper work, look what we had to do go through. if folks on the left were targeted i have a problem, but let s hear from them. ebony, you yous aimed.
the same committee will vote on whether learn every waived constitutional protections before invoking her fifth amendment in may. these new claims by progressive groups that they were targeted by the irs are, in fact, false. if you were paying attention to the scandal, the inspector general report outlined very clearly the distinct ideological imbalance. the outsted irs commissioner admitted to targeting conservatives. michelle malkin joins us. number two fifth amendment, reaction? all it takes is one crack for a stonewall to crumble, and as farther as these obstructists, irs bureaucrats are working to keep the truth from the public,
the same committee will vote on whether learn every waived constitutional protections before invoking her fifth amendment in may. these new claims by progressive groups that they were targeted by the irs are, in fact, false. if you were paying attention to the scandal, the inspector general report outlined very clearly the distinct ideological imbalance. the outsted irs commissioner admitted to targeting conservatives. michelle malkinus. number two fifth amendment, reaction? all it takes is one crack for a stonewall to crumble, and as farther as these obstructists, irs bureaucrats are working to keep the truth from the public,
program is part of the problem is our incredibly complex tax code and who asks to have the tax exempt status and who doesn t. elizabeth mcdonnell has been looking into this. what about the argument that the irs needed to have more scrutiny about groups because there was so many a phaoeug to not pay taxes. if there s hearings you can bet that the irs officials will number one say we can t discuss this due to the nixon era confidentiality laws unless they can get a waiver from the nonprofit groups skwraout niced. he will site the skew bream court citizens united case and including social welfare groups. that happened in and around the same time. the supreme court decision occurred at the same time the cincinnati office was launched in 2010 a computer spread sheet that said, quote, be on the look out for tea party groups. jenna: was there an indication that they were worried specifically that the tea party groups themselves would be