"The IRS severely mismanaged the applications of Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, a long-awaited and bipartisan Senate report said Wednesday.

But Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee couldn't find common ground on perhaps the central IRS issues of the last 27 months: whether the agency intentionally targeted conservative groups because of their politics, and whether there was White House or Treasury involvement.

The new report did find that Lois Lerner, the central figure in the controversy, "failed to adequately manage" her staff that were processing the tax-exempt applications.

More broadly, the committee, led by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), found that the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt groups showed little to no regard for the groups who in some cases faced years of delay on their applications."

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/250363...s-senate-report (Filed under "Policy/Financial")

"Mismanaged"? I could accept "feloniously mismanaged".

It appears that the Senate is looking at procedural issues, and not issues of criminality in the government.

"Severely mismanaged"? A fine combination of Senatorial weasel words. This was a well thought out criminal conspiracy that quite possibly delivered the 2012 election to Barry, the Boy President. "Mismanaged"? Cheez!