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MAN: What you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God.
KWAME HOLMAN (Newshour): Steven Miller, the man forced out as acting head of the IRS, began by acknowledging failures.
STEVEN MILLER, Former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner: I want to apologize on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided.
The affected organizations and the American public deserve better. Partisanship or even the perception of partisanship has no place at the IRS. It cannot even appear to be a consideration in determining the tax exemption of an organization.
KWAME HOLMAN: But, at the same time, Miller asserted IRS staffers didn't act out of political motivation when they gave special scrutiny to tea party and other groups on the political right.
STEVEN MILLER: I think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload selection.
The listing described in the report, while intolerable, was a mistake, and not an act of partisanship.
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