IRS employees: Washington IRS official Carter Hull oversaw targeting of conservative groups

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[RummyChick]

A Washington IRS attorney named Carter Hull closely oversaw the targeting of conservative nonprofit groups and suggested questions that IRS employees could ask of conservative and Tea Party groups applying for tax-exempt nonprofit status, according to interviews that two IRS employees gave with congressional investigators.

“I was essentially a front person, because I had no autonomy or no authority to act on [applications] without Carter Hull’s influence or input,” said Elizabeth Hofacre, an employee of the Cincinnati IRS office, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal.

Hofacre’s office, which oversaw tax-exempt applications, reportedly requested help from the agency’s Exempt Organizations Technical unit in Washington, D.C. in 2010 to deal with an influx of new applications from Tea Party groups.

[RummyChick]

[muawiyah]

To address that specific question, any applicant for either nonprofit postage rates OR tax exemption, will first need to establish that he is applying for an organization that really exists.

If you're a church, where's your bulletin? If you're a school, where's the classrooms?

People who work in this environment every day know there are scammers out there, so many of these questions are designed to elicit honest useful responses.

Others aren't ~ and in the case of IRS there seem to have been some newer questions that probably should never have been asked ~ looking over some of the complaints it's almost like someone forgot that IRS isn't the FEC ~ and that would be Lois Lerner and maybe an assistant or two she brought over from the FEC.

She's going to go to jail ~ with her friends.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I thought there were only two rogue agents? < /snurk>

[autumnraine]

ACK’!! Ya think? Maybe a toothbrush too. Or lay off the coffee.

[RummyChick]

I have looked at the pic of Hull’s home. It is a middle income type house..except it is in MD so I have no idea what it is really worth

[Labyrinthos]

The IRS stole the election.

Complete and total BS! The inside-the-beltway, GOP elites stole the election by doing everything they could to pimp an uninspiring, libtard RINO while smacking down conservatives and the tea party candidates. The pols who feared the tea party the most during the last election cycle are not the RATs from the Northeast, DC, or Left Coast, but career Republicans and their groupies like McLame, Graham, NcConnell, Boner, Rove, and Coulter. Indeed, many of the conservative groups that the IRS targeted are from solid Red States that Romney won easily.

Ask yourself this: Why have McLame, Graham, NcConnell, and Boner been remarkably low key about the IRS scandal? Answer: Because they have more to fear from the Tea Party during the primaries, than the RATs in the general election.

[mware]

What did Obama know and when did he know it?

He knew he had an enemy to destroy when he flew over the 1st tea party protest at the Capitol, in Marine One.

[RummyChick]

and trim his nose hairs before Gramps gets hauled before Congress.

Zillow says his house is worth 305,000 so it’s not like he is in the big wig super rich category of Govt employees.

[muawiyah]

IRS publishes a report every year. One of the topics concerns the probability of people at various income levels to get audited. Romney's friends should be up there in the 9% chance and higher.

I doubt any of his friends appear in the most heavily audited group ~ those claiming EITC ~ that's 30%!

Not that Romney's donors don't have a complaint, but rich folks do get audited more frequently than all but the poorest folks ~ and as you know I disagree with this practice.

Time to eliminate all this personal contact with the taxpaying public ~ and the way to do that is to abolish the federal income tax, and to do that we must rescind the 16th amendment.

[PGalt]

BTTT!

[kabar]

When you look at the dates of the letters, it took about a year and a half to get back to the group and the questions became much more intrusive compared to the first letter. When the first letter was written in April 2010, the Tea Party movement was just beginning. By Nov 2011, it had become a potent political force. No doubt, this is the reason for the persecution and harassment of the group. Chilling stuff.

Being somewhat familiar with the C3 and C4 process, the first letter is more standard. The second one is off the charts.

[Labyrinthos]

Last post with corrections (I need more coffee):

The IRS stole the election.

Complete and total BS! The inside-the-beltway, GOP elites stole the election by doing everything they could to pimp an uninspiring, libtard RINO while smacking down conservatives and the tea party candidates. The pols who feared the tea party the most during the last election cycle are not the RATs from the Northeast, DC, or Left Coast, but career Republicans and their groupies like McLame, Graham, McConnell, Boner, Rove, and Coulter. Indeed, many of the conservative groups that the IRS targeted are from solid Red States that Romney won easily.

Ask yourself this: Why have McLame, Graham, McConnell, and Boner been remarkably low key about the IRS scandal? Answer: Because they have more to fear from the Tea Party during the primaries, than the RATs in the general election.

[bestintxas]

is he promoted yet?

[muawiyah]

We’ve heard about the leftwingtards asking for TEAParty audits, but what about McCain, and even Romney’s campaign aids ~ were they attacking Republicans?

[ladyjane]

Oh good. Let’s blame the Republicans for this.

[muawiyah]

We had intrusive questions when our HOA filed years ago ~ we didn’t have a street address ~ we’d rented a PO Box. I’d need to see the addresses these people used to see if that was a factor.

[muawiyah]

Romney wasn't a real Republican. He left the party with his father way back when.

He also used dirty tricks in he primaries. I think it's a fair question to ask who he sicced IRS on.

[Texas Fossil]

Good find. Thanks for post.

Daylight is a strong disinfectant. It will take a while for the smell uncovered to be cleansed.

[Jacquerie]

There is no question that most, if not every federal agency was an arm of the Obama reelection campaign. Consider the IRS, FBI, ATF and OSHA attacks on True the Vote. These agencies are under various cabinet secretaries, and they could only have been coordinated by the White House.

If we give this outrage a pass, it will green light future oppression of groups that oppose rat regimes.

We might as well deed the White House keys to the DNC and not bother with elections; they will be a waste of time, a bigger waste than the last one.

[Democrat_media]

The IRS and the news media(democrats too) corrupted the Republican primary too as well as the election. the IRS has been shutting down tea party groups and Republican groups since 2010. you seek to defend the IRS and Obama. what you do is unconscionable.In fact the news media has the most power so the buck stops with the media and Obama and the media's failure to call out Obama