Lois Lerner Targeted Chuck Grassley After He Blocked Obama’s DOJ Tax Nominee

Daily Caller ^ | 7-1-2014 | Patrick Howley

[hoosiermama]

Even if two or three like minded would come up with these actions having the nerve to put them in action without a person in higher authority giving a nod does not seem likely.

So who’s nodding? Who was visiting the WH again and how are they connected ? That’s who’s emails I want to see!

[maggief]

... seems the GOP-e doesn’t want to go there, once again.

FLASHBACK:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/irs-commissioner-shulman-step-down

As commissioner, Shulman was responsible for delivering about $300 billion, or some 40 percent, of the funds made available in President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus package...

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Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, in a statement, said Shulman’s “work at the IRS, from fighting tax evasion to modernizing technology, has helped make the nation’s tax system more fair, efficient, and effective.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/democrats_unleash_the_irs_tyrant.html

In March of 2010, the IRS began to flag Tea Party groups for special scrutiny. By July 2011, President Obama’s approval rating hit a low of 41%, the lowest of his presidency.

That month, Carter Hull, a 48 year veteran at the agency, was told by Lois Lerner’s office that he was no longer authorized to review 501(c)4 applications from conservative groups. They were all to be routed to Counsel Wilkin’s office. Yet Wilkins told Congress under oath that he knew nothing about it.

There are 100,000 employees at the IRS. Two are handpicked by Obama. One is William Wilkins, Chief Counsel of the IRS, the other is IRS Director Doug Shulman.

Wilkins. He’s a longtime Obama crony and Democratic donor who earned his spurs by successfully defending, pro bono, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Yes, that Rev. Wright) from charges that his radical politicization of his pulpit should deny his church tax-exempt status.

When Hull disagreed with the counsel’s office and Lerner about how the Tea Party cases should be handled, the files were taken away from him and transferred to a woman with only several months experience at the IRS.

Hull also described a meeting about the Tea Party applications on Aug. 4, 2011, where the IRS chief counsel’s office had three representatives present.

On April 23, 2012 Wilkins met with President Obama at the White House. On April 24, 2012, the other Obama appointee, IRS Director Douglas Shulman, met with Obama. On April 25, one day later, the IRS revised the criteria by which to harass the Tea Party.

[hoosiermama]

My friend is my enemy’s enemy — may be the condition here