Posted on 06/07/2013 5:01:49 PM PDT by servo1969
An IRS agent in the embattled Cincinnati office is lashing out at the agency's managers for pinning the blame on them for the targeting of conservative groups, describing one official's attempt to pass the blame as a "nuclear strike on us."
According to transcripts of interviews that House investigators conducted with two Cincinnati office employees and which Fox News reviewed, agent Elizabeth Hofacre claimed that the idea this program was the work of two rogue agents is "absurd."
She said that when Lois Lerner, the high-level official who oversaw the Cincinnati unit and is now on leave over the scandal, first acknowledged the program last month and traced it to the Ohio office, "I was furious."
"I mean, it was inaccurate, but me especially because I was involved in the processing of these in 2010 so it looked like ... Lois Lerner was putting it on us," she said.
Hofacre went on to say that she thinks the public has been purposely misled on the claim that two rogue agents were responsible.
"Everybody that has been making those statements should know they are inaccurate," she said. "I just thought when Lois Lerner dropped that bomb shell, oh, it was Cincinnati's problem, she thought it would go away, but instead it exploded."
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I see some of them being sacrificed here and on other boards already ~ criticizing the whistleblowers is part of the traditional technique of protecting the bad guys.
At a certain level you can’t just walk away from a government job ~ they gots’ ta’ let you go firest. The way I see it is Lerner is not being turned loose ~ Hull is. Gives me an idea of who ratted who out and who will get prosecuted as an employee ~
Large federal bureaucracies are not an amorphous mass ~ the subagencies specialize in a variety of things and engage in TURF WARS ~ but when it comes to subordinates, you really have to be careful blowing away your own immediate boss. I am sure Hofacre has her friends back in the unit under attack ~ but what they're saying to each other is something I can only guess.
Stop being so hysterical. My alleged attitude has no effect on anything. Federal agencies are corrupt and the lower level non-management people understand that and try to join up for the sake of their careers or they keep their heads down and try not to commit identity suicide. I have personally seen a case where a whistle blower was paid off to take early retirement. He had a good lawyer and the union behind him and he was quite bright. Lying under oath is learned early. Nepotism is also an epidemic.
My main point was that this Halfwit or whatever its name was did or should know the way it was going to unfold. The only way to get rid of the corruption is to legislate the departments out of existence.
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