Nonprofit Groups
At the Ways and Means hearing, Chairman Dave Camp asked about two separate incidents. In one, documents belonging to the National Organization for Marriage became public. In another case, the news organization ProPublica asked for and received confidential documents about nine politically active nonprofit groups, including one for Crossroads GPS, backed by Republican Karl Rove.
Miller said he thought the inspector general had determined the disclosures to be “inadvertent” and that an employee was disciplined for failing to follow correct procedures.
By contrast, J. Russell George, the inspector general, wouldn’t answer directly.
“I have to be very careful as to exactly how I respond, and whether or not I can even acknowledge publicly some of these revelations that you’re inquiring about,” he said.