An IRS internal investigation concluded that the agency was improperly targeting conservative groups a year before an inspector general’s report revealed the same practices.
House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa said Wednesday that committee investigators interviewed the IRS’s Director of Exempt Organizations, Rulings and Agreements, Holly Paz, who indicated she participated in the agency’s internal review, which concluded in May of 2012.
“Think about it,” Issa said. “For more than a year, the IRS knew that it had inappropriately targeted groups of Americans based on their political beliefs and without mentioning and in fact without honestly answering questions that were the result of this internal investigation.”
Paz, who National Review Online previously reported is a donor to Barack Obama, was yesterday interviewed privately by investigators of the House Oversight Committee. She reports to the Director of Exempt Organizations, Lois Lerner, who today invoked her Fifth Amendment right and did not testify before the committee.
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