Now that the regime’s excuse of this being isolated to only The IRS’ Cincinnati office is blown out of the water I wonder what they will go with?

WASHINGTON, May 14 (UPI) — Internal Revenue Service Tea Party targeting went beyond an Ohio office, and the current and ex-IRS heads knew about the practice a year ago, records indicate.

IRS officials at the agency’s Washington headquarters and at offices in El Monte, Calif., east of Los Angeles and Laguna Niguel in California’s southern Orange County sent queries to conservative groups asking about their donors and other facets of their operations, documents obtained by The Washington Post indicate.

The IRS originally said the alleged anti-conservative usurpation was limited to its Cincinnati branch. The Cincinnati IRS employees told conservatives seeking the non-profit status of “social welfare” groups a Washington task force was overseeing their applications, activists from those groups told the Post.

Lois Lerner, head of the IRS tax-exempt-organizations division, told reporters Friday the “absolutely inappropriate” actions were done by “front-line people” working in Cincinnati to target groups with “Tea Party,” “patriot” or “9/12” in their names.

Her office had no immediate comment to the Post report.