Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, went on CNN on Sunday to tout new testimony given by IRS employees in Cincinnati to congressional investigators.The testimony, Issa said, undercuts the Obama administration’s version of the IRS scandal. The IRS has conceded that conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status had their applications innappriopriately screened and handled. But the IRS has denied there was any partisan political motivation for singling out those groups. The inspector general report that set off the scandal did not find evidence of any political motivation for the additional scrutiny.
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