Lois Lerner knew that rogue agents in Cincinnati weren't responsible for the IRS scandal because she was involved herself

With this information coming out, it is understandable that Obama chose Friday for speaking out on the Zimmerman case.  From National Review Online:

Testimony from key witnesses indicates that the embattled former head of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations division and her senior adviser, Judith Kindell, involved the chief counsel’s office in the processing of tea-party applications. At issue were two “test” applications elevated from the agency’s Cincinnati outpost to its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the handling of which was supposed to guide the treatment of the remainder of the tea-party cases that sat in Cincinnati. Though three years has elapsed since one of applications was filed, IRS lawyers say the organization that applied for tax-exempt status has yet to hear from Lerner’s team at the IRS. . . . .