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IRS Chief: No Evidence Of 'Intentional Wrongdoing' So Far

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That "be on the lookout list" used to flag Tea Party groups for extra scrutiny of their tax-exemption applications? It turns out it wasn't the only one the Internal Revenue Service had been using. There were also other lists, covering a "broad spectrum" of categories and cases, according to a preliminary IRS report released Monday. "Once we came to that conclusion, we took immediate action to suspend the use of these lists in the Exempt Organizations unit within IRS," said Danny Werfel, the new acting chief of the IRS, in a conference call with reporters. Werfel said he hopes to be able to release more information about the sorts of other groups that were being flagged in the coming days, but that he could not until the documents were scrubbed of details that could identify groups by name, which privacy laws prohibit. Werfel also said that his review so far hasn't found any evidence of unintentional wrongdoing by any IRS employee, nor any influence by entities outside the IRS in the

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