john schaefer, who described himself as a conservative republican told congressional investigators he flagged the first application for tax exempt status from a tea party aligned group that he and lower level agents came across in february 2010, because it was a new, high-profile issue. this is from mr. schaefer who describes himself as a conservative republican. and all of these efforts to tie this to the white house have been salacious. i now would like to read a communication from the deputy inspector general for investigations dated friday, may 3rd of 2013. gentlemen, as a result of our meeting with russell a couple weeks ago, we agreed to pull e-mails from identified staff members of the organization in cincinnati to find out, number one, if an e-mail existed that directed the staff to in quotes target tea party and other political organizations. and, two, if there was a conspiracy or effort to hide e-mails about the alleged director. audit provided us with a list of employees in question. keyword search terms, and a time frame for the e-mails. we pulled the availablers e-mails,

party and john schaefer described himself as a conservative republican told the congressional investigators he flagged the tax-exempt status that the lower-level agents came across in february of 2010 because it was a new high-profile issue. this is from mr. schieffer who describes himself as a conservative republican. the efforts to tie this to the white house have been fallacious and i would like to read a communication from the deputy inspector general for investigations dated friday, may 3, 2013, gentlemen as a result of the meeting a couple of weeks ago, we have agreed to pull e-mails from the identified staff members of the organization to find out, number one, if an e-mail existed directed the staff to target a teen party and other political organizations and if there was a conspiracy or effort to hide the e-mails about the alleged directive. the list of employees and questions. in the keyword search terms and time frame for the e-mails we pulled the available irs e-mails which resulted in 5500 responsive e-mails. he continues the review of the e-mails determined that there was a lot