Oops: Ex-Cincy IRS official Bonnie Esrig doubts agency’s explanation for Tea Party scandal

It’s always the cover up, never the crime.

Esrig said that recent media headlines reporting that “rogue” agents were responsible and questioning whether the Obama Administration had played a role, surprised her, given her first-hand knowledge of the unit and its work.

“Those were things that were not consistent with my knowledge of the way the organization works,” Esrig said.

Esrig said she doesn’t believe that a few employees in the Cincinnati office made the decisions to use the inappropriate selection criteria – as the IRS has claimed to Congress and as the Treasury Inspector General reported in its audit.

According to a congressional source, the IRS reported in a briefing to Congress that two “rogue” employees were responsible for the use of the criteria.

But Esrig said that doesn’t make sense based on her experience.

“The idea of two rogue employees,” Esrig said, “is inconsistent with the kinds of checks and balances that are inherent in the way the organization is set up.”

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