"Shifting IRS polls contradict key deposition"

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Shifting IRS polls contradict key deposition

By Alan Silverleib, CNN Congressional Producer

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/18/politics/irs-scandal-paz/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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White House was behind the Internal Revenue Service decision to target conservative political groups, according to a recent CNN/ORC International poll, a growing belief at odds with information recently provided to CNN by congressional investigators.

The information includes a full transcript of the May 21 deposition of Holly Paz, a high-ranking IRS official placed on administrative leave as a result of her role in the scandal.

Paz was questioned extensively by investigators from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is chaired by one of the administration's fiercest congressional critics, California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa.

The transcript of Paz's deposition, examined by CNN this week, shows an agency plagued more by bureaucratic ineptitude than partisan political scheming.


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