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Sean Higgins<\/strong> A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service\u2019s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency\u2019s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency\u2019s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents.<\/p>\n The Post story\u00a0anonymously quoted<\/a> a staffer in Cincinnati as saying they only operate on directives from headquarters:<\/p>\n As could be expected, the folks in the determinations unit on Main Street have had trouble concentrating this week. Number crunchers, whose work is nonpolitical, don\u2019t necessarily enjoy the spotlight, especially when the media and the public assume they\u2019re engaged in partisan villainy.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re not political,\u2019\u2019 said one determinations staffer in khakis as he left work\u00a0late\u00a0Tuesday afternoon. \u201cWe people on the local level are doing what we are supposed to do.\u00a0.\u00e2\u20ac\u2030.\u00e2\u20ac\u2030.\u00a0That\u2019s why there are so many people here who are flustered.\u00a0Everything comes from the top.\u00a0We don\u2019t have any authority to make those decisions without someone signing off on them. There has to be a directive<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n The staff member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job, said that the determinations unit is competent and without bias, that it grouped together conservative applications \u201cfor consistency\u2019s sake\u201d \u2013 so one\u00a0application\u00a0did not sail through while a similar one was held up in review. This consistency is paramount in the review of all applications, according to Ronald Ran, an estate-tax lawyer who worked for 37 years in the IRS\u2019s Cincinnati office.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Monday, May 20, 2013 at 5:26 am<\/p>\n Tags: domestic news<\/a>, domestic spying<\/a>, government corruption<\/a>, mainstream media<\/a><\/p>\n
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