Posted on 07/17/2013 10:29:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
The chief counsel’s office for the Internal Revenue Service, headed by a political appointee of President Obama, helped develop the agency’s problematic guidelines for reviewing “tea party” cases, according to a top IRS attorney.
In interviews with congressional investigators, IRS lawyer Carter Hull said his superiors told him that the chief counsel’s office, led by William Wilkins, would need to review applications that the agency had screened for additional scrutiny because of potential political activity.
Previous accounts from IRS employees had shown that Washington IRS officials were involved in the controversy, but Hull’s comments represent the closest connection to the White House to date.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oopsie.
UNEXPECTED......
Don’t you know that we are supposed to forget about this stuff and focus on Zimmerman/Martin?
Another name up the chain-—William Wilkins-—call him in to testify!
Folks need to get back on target, IRS, Benghazi, fast & furious, immigration.
Lib-dems keep throwing “shiny things” in the way to distract from those issues. 95% of people get easily distracted and forget what’s important to America’s survival.
And where did he/she get his/her “marching orders”? Better get him/her on record before he/she becomes a victim of Chicagocide...
Nothing to see here! move along. change the subject...
The report also says that on August 4th of 2011, that the chief counsel at the IRS -- William Wilkins, appointed by President Obama in 2009; this is one of only two political appointees at the IRS -- that the chief counsel was briefed on this back in 2011.
Is it credible that William J. Wilkins, a well-trained lawyer with a history of counseling 501(c)(3)'s, would have learned of the political targeting of groups and not informed The White House?
And the MSM pushes 120% on those "Shiny things" 24/7.
Well, well
(And the Washington Post, too... whaddya know? )
It's more likely that the WH informed him (i.e. gave him marching orders).
Hull will appear before the Oversight Committee on Thursday as it holds another hearing on the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups. Elizabeth Hofacre, the Cincinnati agent charged with processing tea-party applications, as well as the Treasury Department inspector general J. Russell George and two of his TIGTA colleagues, will also testify.
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The applications of some tea-party groups for tax exemption are still languishing at the Internal Revenue Service, where they have been reviewed by the chief counsel’s office and by a senior adviser to Lois Lerner, the agency’s former director of Exempt Organizations, according to the testimony of three Internal Revenue Services attorneys involved in their processing. The IRS’s chief counsel, William Wilkins, is one of two political appointees at the agency. His office demanded information about the political activity of tea-party groups “right before the [2010] election period,” and to this day has yet to make a determination whether the groups qualify for tax exemption, according to one IRS attorney.
The explosive testimony comes from Carter Hull, a recently retired IRS attorney who was charged with providing guidance to the Cincinnati agent processing tea-party applications; his superviser, Ronald Shoemaker; and Michael Seto, the manager of the Exempt Organizations Technical unit made up of tax lawyers and based in Washington, D.C.
Hull began reviewing tea-party applications in April 2010. According to a partial transcript of his interview with Oversight Committee investigators, he felt he had enough information to make a determination on the applications, but sometime in the winter of 2010–2011, the senior advisor to Lois Lerner told him the IRS chief counsel’s office needed to review the applications nonetheless. These were “test” applications whose treatment would provide guidance for agents processing the bulk of the tea-party applications.
Step 2b of the Marxist-In-Chief’s agenda: distract from the real issues.
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