How many nonprofit auditors does the IRS have?

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In its Saturday edition, the Washington Post featured two separate front-page stories about the controversy engulfing the Internal Revenue Service for its targeting of Tea Party groups seeking nonprofit status. Both stories featured completely different figures for the number of auditors the IRS has to cover nonprofit groups.

One article says the number is between 140 to 200. Another story says the number is 900. Both of these figures even appear on the same page of the print edition, A6. They both cannot be right. So which is it?

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