White House Feeds IRS Frenzy by Revising Accounts

The almost daily disclosures by the White House about who knew about an IRS investigation before it became public has helped stoke the furor over the agency’s scrutiny of tax-exempt groups and given the president’s harshest critics an opening.

Over the past week, President Barack Obama’s aides have been amending and revising and offering sometimes conflicting accounts of how the administration learned that an audit found Internal Revenue Service employees improperly selecting “Tea Party” or other small-government groups for extra scrutiny.