Holly Paz Admits Scrutinizing Tea Party Application in DC - Placed on Leave

Since her named popped up in the IRS scandal the name Holly Paz has invoked a special fascination in me. Maybe it's because the name reminds me of a character in Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly. At first I thought Paz was employed in Cincinnati, also the home of Proctor and Gamble and reasoned that Holly Paz sounded like a P&G creation; something that would make the air smell fresher, something that would prevail over smelly socks and doggy odor. No, Holly Paz is a real person who works for the IRS in Washington and who evidently been cooperating with the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cooperating? Well, probably motivated by a sense of self preservation but cooperating in part nevertheless.
Paz has acknowledged she was personally involved in reviewing 20 to 30 Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status as far back as 2010, a detail that further challenges the agency's initial claim that the practice of singling out those groups was limited to a handful of employees in Ohio. Naturally Paz won't go so far as to admitting any political motivation behind the targeting but her admission that she and an IRS lawyer Carter Hall were reviewing the cases in Washington pretty much kills the "Cincinnati rogue agent" narrative which been used to excuse the viewpoint discrimination practiced by the IRS. The day after Paz was interviewed by committee investigators Lois Lerner invoked the 5th amendment.

Update: From Cincinnati Com:

Paz’s lawyer confirmed Saturday that she has been placed on administrative leave from the agency, but he said she’s done nothing wrong. “Holly Paz was the whistle-blower and was the first to point out the problem,” said Roel Campos, her Washington attorney, in an emailed statement.
He noted that Paz was on maternity leave during two key time periods – when the targeting started in early 2010, and again when the IRS sent letters to tea party groups asking questions the agency now admits were improper. Both times, Paz returned from leave to discover problems, and both times she brought them to the attention of her boss, Lois Lerner, Campos said.

Yeah, everything went to hell every time she left. What will she find if she returns after her administrative leave?