Oops.
Posted on 06/07/2013 9:40:30 AM PDT by Sopater
WASHINGTON – A misfired email from an Internal Revenue Service employee in Ohio alerted officials in Washington that conservative groups were being targeted a full year earlier than previously acknowledged, Fox News confirms. Transcripts from interviews held with IRS employees in Cincinnati show that managers in Washington knew about the heightened scrutiny put on Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt status in July 2010.
The transcript, which was initially reviewed and reported by Reuters, apparently shows that Cincinnati IRS official Elizabeth Hofacre was in communication with D.C.-based IRS attorney Carter Hull. Hofacre was put in charge of handling tax-exempt status applications from conservative groups by her Cincinnati boss, she claims.
According to the report, Hofacre was asked to summarize her initial findings and send it via email to a small group of IRS workers, including a few in the D.C. tax-exempt unit. Mistakenly, she sent the email to everybody in the Washington IRS Exempt Organizations Rulings and Agreements unit.
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And that’s REALLY the first time anyone in Washington even thought about such dastardly stuff ... [/s]
... honest.
I’m with you. Doesn’t pass the smell test. Whoever ordered this was from DC and they knew about it long before some “mis-fired” email.
Then this is bigger then we know. As the IG should have elevated this in 2010 and instead it got swept under the bus.
I guess this will the summer of DRIP DRIP DRIP. This will only grow and grow.
How many in DC were in on that email?
Dude...enough with the pic spam...please?
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I guess this will the summer of DRIP DRIP DRIP. This will only grow and grow.
Good we need to keep the drips dripping as close to the primaries as possible.
A process that is slow at best became molasses-like, and after Hofacre went to a different job, whoever got aholt of 'em slowed them down to a new pace, and finally the process turned to concrete.
Look folks, a big part of the game plan was to select either newbies or people who were simply slow (a personality type every office worker knows about) knowing that these cases wouldn't get an early, or even timely decision!
Quite possibly no one knew who gave the order because that person was smart enough to simply let the cases languish in the hands of the least efficient analysts.
No doubt they've used this method before.
I have no confidence in that IG....NONE!
Initially someone was too slow in handling a TEAParty application, so the guy pushing the application called up and complained. That’s probably when this started ~ dealing with a complaint. http://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/ is going to show up in the discussions eventually, along with a reprise of the May 13 misleading Politico story ~ see: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/kerrey-irs-advocate-to-blame-for-scandal-91299.html ~ Kerry says these folks failed. On the other hand they may well have succeeded beyond their wildest imagination, and the geeks at Politico KNEW THAT at the time they ran the story. Guess Ms Olson is not well connected in Democrat circles so they let her get tossed under the bus first.
People routinely overlook the potential CYA opportunities inherent to the “accidental” cc all email....
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who set off the controversy, has said that she first learned of the BOLO list in June 2011, and that she ordered the partisan criteria to be removed immediately.
Well, except that LIAR Lois Lerner signed letters containing “partisan criteria”, in the Spring of 2012.
I like Diogenesis’ posts.
Then you’re in luck. Just click on the link and you can see the same one over and over and over and over again!
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You are exactly right, this is understanding the way bureaucracy really works and using that to your advantage. Nonetheless, the "who" remains the big question and one that truly needs to be discovered.
Misfire. We need more misfires.
Me too!
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