kcvl: Do you have a source for this post about Wilkins’ WH visits?
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, one of subjects of Congress’s invesetigation into the agency’s targeting of tea-party groups, visited the White House nine times since 2010, according to the administrator’s visitor access records.
In April 2012, Wilkins attended a small meeting with President Obama in the Roosevelt Room, though records do not indicate the subject of the meeting. The private events on the president’s schedule for that day, aside from the presidential daily briefing, are an 11:00 a.m. meeting with senior advisers and a 4:45 p.m. meeting with former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. It is unclear which of these meetings Wilkins attended, if either, or if his meeting with the president simply did not appear on Obama’s public schedule.
Wilkins also visited the White House in previous years, attending what appears to be a large event on December 15, 2012; the following day, December 16, he was present at a small meeting with then–deputy director of the National Economic Council Jason Furman, who is now the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In August 2011, Wilkins also met with Jamal Pope, who identifies himself as a special assistant for White House initiatives at the Department of Commerce. Wilkins’s other visits were for large events that extended to all administration appointees. Knowing what Wilkins discussed in his meetings with the president and with administration officials Furman and Pope would shed light on whether the Obama administration directed the IRS to discriminate against conservative groups.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3027364/posts?page=69#69
Sorry, I thought I linked it...
An online organization chart at irs.gov of the IRS Office of Chief Counsel from December 2010. This chart is of interest since the timeline for the IRS targeting controversy started in 2010. I used this chart to analyze the number of White House visits for all attorneys in the chart.
Analysis of White House visits by Sarah Hall Ingram showed IRS Healthcare Counsel Catherine E. Livingston attended 139 of Ingram‘s 165 White House meetings, and 80 of former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman‘s 157 White House meetings.
Additional analysis of White House visitor records show Livingston attended 435 White House meetings — over 200 more meetings than attended with Shulman or Ingram.
Most attorneys in the organization chart have not visited the White House ever according to White House visitor logs. A few visited once or twice.
In their leadership roles the IRS Chief Counsel William J. Wilkins attended 9 meetings and General Counsel of the Treasury George W. Madison attended 50 meetings. As previously reported, Schulman visited the White House 157 times.
http://watchdoglabs.org/blog/2013/06/06/irs-healthcare-counsel-logged-435-white-house-visits/