Posted on 06/12/2013 3:09:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
A Cincinnati-based Internal Revenue Service employee is pushing back against claims by Lois Lerner and other top IRS officials that the agency’s Cincinnati office was responsible for the the targeting of tea-party groups and the botched processing of their applications for tax exemption.
Elizabeth Hofacre, who coordinated ”emerging issues” cases for the IRS and handled all tea-party applications between April and August 2010, called Lerner’s May 10 disclosure of the scandal at a tax-law conference ”a nuclear strike” on Cincinnati employees. Hofacre told House Oversight Committee investigators in an interview, the transcript of which has been reviewed by National Review Online, that her boss immediately called her to apologize on Lerner’s behalf, presumably because “she was flabbergasted that Lois had made such a statement” and “appalled that Lois Lerner said that.”
Responding to a planted question from a friend in the audience at the American Bar Association conference, Lerner revealed that the IRS had inappropriately discriminated against tea-party groups, and pointed the finger at “our line people in Cincinnati.” She also said that Cincinnati employees were responsible for the delays in the processing of tea-party applications and for asking intrusive questions of the groups “that weren’t really necessary for the type of application.”
Upon hearing this, “I was furious,” Hofacre told investigators.
Hofacre also charged that top brass in the IRS, including Lerner, misled the public by blaming the scandal on a few rogue employees. “Everybody that has been making those statements should know they are inaccurate,” Hofacre said. Asked whether “the public has been purposely misled,” Hofacre responded, “Exactly.”
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Ms. Hofacre, you may want to do a little research on how useful idiots are dealt with as they become a liability to a regime. This is the way it is. You are to be sacrificed for “The Won”.
The obama administration is trying to deflect culpability by pinning this on some outlying administrative unit. The orders came from the top, and these people know it, and they don’t want to therown to the wolves to cover up where the orders came from. The orders either came from the DNC, or they came from the CIC. Keep peeling back the layers, and do not relent.
Talk or be “Underbussed”.
Now, hopefully the GOP leadership has the gumption to take advantage of it and follow this thing all the way to the White House.
Agreed. I just decided on a new improved tag line:
Hey citizen, what’s in YOUR closet?!
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