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Name That Bureaucrat
National Review ^ | July 19, 2013 | National Review

Posted on 07/19/2013 6:27:23 AM PDT by National Review

The IRS scandal shows that those who make decisions must be held responsible.

By John Fund

Finally, we may be getting somewhere in the IRS scandal involving the targeting and harassment of tea-party groups applying for tax exemptions. At Thursday’s House Government Reform and Oversight hearing, some names were at last attached to some of the IRS’s most questionable actions in the scandal.

Back in May, top IRS officials Steven Miller and Lois Lerner insisted that “rogue” agents in the Cincinnati office acted without direction from IRS headquarters in Washington. But Elizabeth Hofacre, who was the Cincinnati agent in charge of reviewing flagged tea-party applications, says she “had no autonomy or authority” to act on applications and so she simply sat on them. She blamed Carter Hull, an IRS lawyer in Washington, for the delays, saying that he directed her in how to treat problem cases but never gave her any feedback.

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TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: darrellissa; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; johnfund; loislerner
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1 posted on 07/19/2013 6:27:23 AM PDT by National Review
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It is truly frightening to think how many from the left-prog-lib side of the political spectrum are so perfectly willing to accept what has been occurring at the IRS.

If we lose Congress, and Hillary the Horrible Hag of Park Ridge becomes President, I fear that the Monarchy established by Foreign Exchange student we have today, will become firmly and possibly permanently ensconced into power.

2 posted on 07/19/2013 6:36:57 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (0bama lied, Stevens died, now 0bama covers up the lies.)
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So much smell; dead fish everywhere.
3 posted on 07/19/2013 6:43:01 AM PDT by JPG (Obama Does Egypt.)
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To: National Review
The IRS scandal shows that those who make decisions must be held responsible.

GeeOpie,  Don't hold your breath.  

Being held responsible would be self-evidence of a Republic, where the Rule of Law was still governing instead of the ruling Oligarchic Kleptocracy:


"Oops"
 
I'm not seeing it happen, are you?
4 posted on 07/19/2013 6:45:30 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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To: National Review
Oh and BTW - been there, did that -- passed the audit -- a month after I got home from 9/12 and received a bill from the IRS for $60,000+ that I DIDN'T OWE.


5 posted on 07/19/2013 6:51:36 AM PDT by TArcher ("TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, governments are instituted among men" -- Does that still work?)
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