I'm sorry, I thought you knew the difference in the words "controlled" and "started". Evidently not.
Since I quoted two paragraphs from your year old out of date USA article, it is evident that I did read it. It's also evident that you refuse to address the quotes from YOUR article because they blow your allegations out of the water.
Sucks when your own link disproves your claims doesn't it?
They didn't blow anything away, you took those paragraphs out of context:
The Tea Party affair started with a Feb. 25, 2010 e-mail from Cincinnati-based IRS agent Jack Koester to his boss, Screening Group Manager John Shafer. Shafer, in turn, sent it to his superiors, including some Washington staff, elevating it as a "high profile case."
The Cincinnati employees weren't quite sure what the Tea Party was, but they knew it was politically sensitive. "This case will be sent to inventory for further development. Political campaigns on behalf (of) or in opposition to any political candidate do not promote social welfare," Shafer wrote to his bosses. The Tea Party groups were seeking tax exempt status as "social welfare" groups.
A few days later, Shafer came back to Muthert asking him to look up how many Tea Party cases had been received, and how many had already been approved. "He told me that Washington, D.C wanted some cases," Muthert said, according tot he transcripts.
Shafer, though, told congressional investigators that he asked for the list on his own -- not on orders from Washington. "No one said to make a search," he said.
"Based on what I saw at the time, this organization is something — I don't know what it is, but it is something that appears to be growing, some type of movement," Muthert said. "So when I was asked to research the Tea Parties, it was like OK, I understand why you would want me to look at these cases and see if there is going to be a million coming in or not."
Muthert began flagging the Tea Party cases as an "emerging issue," meaning that the cases might raise new legal issues that should be looked at by tax law specialists. In effect, that meant that the Tea Party cases were put in a "holding pattern," Muthert said.
Elizabeth Hofacre, the Cincinnati coordinator for emerging issues, put it another way: "These cases were basically in a black hole," she told internal IRS reviewers in 2012.
Hofacre, who had been working on tax-exempt determinations in Cincinnati for 11 years, said the way the IRS handled Tea Party cases was unprecedented. She said she was "micromanaged to death" by an IRS lawyer who worked in Washington. Every piece of correspondence had to be reviewed by Washington. She was asked to fax entire case files to Washington. "I thought it was ridiculous. I mean, I don't understand why they didn't just take the files up (to Washington)," she told the Oversight Committee staffers.