"People who actually misled the public through media," Youssef said. "We got their videos, their names, their pictures. And we were just, like, talking about them freely. And people [were] saying, 'What? You're doing that?'"

Hofacre left for a different IRS job in October 2010 and was replaced by an agent whose name was blacked out in the transcript. Paz said the new agent sat on the tea party applications for more than a year because he was waiting on guidance from Washington on how to proceed. Officials in Washington, however, thought the agents in Cincinnati were still processing the cases, she said.

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