Fronl: Head of Investigations Head of Audits TIGTA Chief Counsel Tax Exempt Audit Head Gentleman, As a result or our meeting with Russell a couple of weeks ago, we agreed to pull a-malls tn)m I(jentlfled statr members afthE) EO orglimlzatlonln Clnolnnatl to find out 1}. If an 6, mail existed that directed the staff to "target" Tea Party and other political organizations and 2). If there Was a conspiracy or effort to hide e-malls about the alleged directive. Audit provided us with a list of employees in question, key word searoh terms and a tlmeframe for the e-mall~l. We pulled the available IRS (l-mails, whk1h resulted In 6,500 responsive e"mafls. . Review of these e-mails revealed that there was a lot of discussion t)EltwEl~m the employees (In how 10 prooess the Tea Party and other political mganization applicatlons, rhere Was a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) Hst specifically naming these groups; however, the e.. rnallslndlcated the organiz,atlorts needed to be pulled because the IRS (~mployees were not Si)te how to process th(~m, not beoause th")y wanted t