Camp: IRS investigation broader than first suspected

Investigations from the Justice Department and the Treasury inspector general for tax administration will “provide a comprehensive picture of the facts and circumstances surrounding this matter,” Werfel wrote to Camp and Levin.

{mosads}In a memo, the Ways and Means Committee said that the IRS has millions of pages of documents, and that it will take time to get those documents into a usable form.

“Based on the limited information we have received, it is clear that this investigation is far greater in breadth and scope than many may have imagined when the Treasury Inspector General first issued its report,” Camp said in a statement.

“The sheer volume of documents and the work that must be done to finish interviews and review the information provided by the IRS will require both time and patience. Congress is determined to get the facts of who was involved, when it occurred and why any American was ever targeted by the IRS based on their personal beliefs, and will pursue this investigation until we have answers to those questions.”

Six conservative groups described their treatment from the IRS at a Tuesday Ways and Means hearing, the same day that a Treasury audit also revealed that the agency spent $4.1 million on one 2010 conference.