Oversight from Washington, All Along

◼ Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal? - Ben Swann/FOX 19

◼ Why the IRS ‘Low-Level Employee’ Defense Is Looking Unlikely - Sam L. Clemens/Viral Read

◼ IRS specialists in Washington were closely involved in the Cincinnati office’s scandalous behavior. - Eliana Johnson/National Review

Officials in the Technical Unit of the IRS’s Rulings and Agreements office played an integral role in determining how the targeted applications were treated, provided general guidelines to Cincinnati case workers, briefed other agency employees on the status of the special cases, and reviewed all those intrusive requests demanding “more information” from tea-party groups. At times, the Technical Unit lawyers seemed to exercise tight control over these applications, creating both a backlog in application processing and frustration among Cincinnati agents waiting for direction.

An IRS employee who asked not to be identified tells National Review Online that all members of the agency’s Technical Unit are based in Washington, D.C. A current list of Technical Unit managers provided by another IRS employee shows that all such managers are based at the agency’s headquarters on Constitution Avenue in the District of Columbia, and the IRS confirmed, in a testy exchange with National Review Online, that the Technical Unit is “based in Washington.”

◼ Rogue? Fox 19 has identified 6 people involved in IRS scandal and they all have DIFFERENT managers - The Right Scoop
◼ TREY GOWDY SPRINGS A TRAP: Did former IRS commissioner Doug Shulman commit perjury today? - Doug Ross

After nearly seven minutes, an exasperated Gowdy finally got to the bottom of it with this exchange:

Gowdy: Did you lift a finger to investigate the facts?

Shulman: Uh, I felt quite comfortable the Inspector General would run down the facts and...

And once he had it it would be recorded out.

Gowdy: Let the record reflect that's a 'no'.

So the record shows that Shulman said "no", he instigated no internal investigation of these criminal actions.

And I believe Trey Gowdy just trapped Mr. Shulman.

Because... it was revealed today that, indeed, the IRS did conduct an internal investigation and its results were withheld until after the election.

When the history books are written, Richard Nixon will look like a guy who stole a few boxes of Girl Scout cookies compared to Barack Obama.