Well it Wasn't Overworked "Rogue Agents" at the IRS Blocking Tea Party Applications

It seems that the higher ups at the Cincinnati IRS actually knew what was happening at the IRS as far back as Dec 2010.

And Cincinnati's Fox 19 News, which has done more solid reporting on this story than most of the major news outlets, looks to have put the final nail in the "rogue agent" story.

The local news station found that there were six agents — not two as former IRS head Steven Miller insisted just last week — who worked on these tax-exempt applications. These agents, Fox 19 learned, all had different direct managers, who in turn had different territory managers.

That means any directive applying to all these workers would had to have come from at least three levels up the management chain.

That manager turns out to be Cindy Thomas — who the IRS says oversees "exempt organization determinations" nationwide. She also happens to be the same person who ProPublica said signed off on releasing nine confidential tax-exempt applications from conservative groups to that liberal-leaning news website.

What is sad is that the national media again ignores the story and it is up to the Cincinnati Fox Affiliate to do their jobs. I'm sure Holder is bugging their phones, hacking their emails, and tracking their movement with drones as we speak.

This national manager who is supposed to be unbiased seems to have leaked tax-exempt applications to some leftist website as well. Isn't that some sort of crime? According to this it sure might be a crime.

According to the IRS’s own manual, anyone found to have engaged in the “unauthorized disclosure of a return or return information” may be subject to felony charges punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and five years in prison:

Well a return isn't an application so she might be in the clear and Holder will never go after her anyway. It does show the incredible bias at the IRS to have a national manager leaking applications to liberal sites though. Now the smoking gun is going to be some email to Cindy Thomas from somebody at the White House saying "Operation Dunk the Tea Bag (or whatever) has been Greenlit"