Posted on 07/17/2013 9:21:15 AM PDT by jazusamo
Top House committee chairmen said Wednesday that they have learned that the IRS sent some tea party groups’ applications for tax-exempt status through special scrutiny at the direction of agency officials in Washington, in a revelation that appears to confirm political targeting.
The committee chairmen released partial excerpts of interviews with IRS employees that show they were prepared to rule on some of the tea party groups’ applications, but Lois Lerner, an official at the root of the investigation, overruled them and instead created the complex and intrusive inquiries that have become the center of a Washington scandal.
Carter Hull, a tax law specialist with 48 years of experience at the IRS, said he was told to send some of the applications to the IRS‘ chief counsel’s office. The chief counsel is one of two political appointees in the IRS.
Mr. Hull told congressional investigators the IRS was trying to grapple with how to respond to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case, which left the door open for interest groups to play a bigger role in political activities.
Part of the IRS‘ answer was to single out some tea-party-affiliated groups’ applications as test cases.
Some of those test cases still haven’t been decided, three years after they were filed, Mr. Hull said.
“That’s a very long time period,” he told investigators.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
I’ve been wondering what happened to all of these “scandals”. Issa was on Fox yesterday - said they’re having a hearing tomorrow.
Lois Lerner belongs in jail.
You’re graphic of the cat is killing me! I saved it.
Send Lois Lerner to jail. ...and don’t forget to water board her.
Big Bump!
I love that kitty:)
Did he send any? If so, did he send any applications from progressive groups or only from Tea Party and conservative groups? If so, what was the response of the politically appointed Chief Counsel?
Let's get the Chief Counsel under oath and find out with whom he consulted.
Absolutely.
So is Hull the link between the career bureaucracy and the appointed by O group?
SO the IRS Chief Counsel in D.C. was reacting to a Supreme Court decision at the directions of whom? Better get this guy on record before he has an unfortunate accident(Chicagocide).
The feral government bureaucracy has degenerated into a division of the Democratic [sic] party.
Using the IRS for political purposes is an impeachable offense.
This is a clear violation of citizens’ Constitutional rights. If Republicans had any principles, they’d be doing something about it.
But forget that — these are Republicans we’re dealing with.
George Zimmerman happened. If that doesn't stay noisy enough for the media to keep the spotlight off the tyrannical corruption of this administration, we've got Princess Kate's baby due any minute.
HERE IS YOUR ANSWER TO WHO ORDERED THIS CRIME.
A) Obama
B) Holder
C) Jarrett
D) Some of the above, with Obama’s approval or direct order.
E)All of the above, with Obama’s approval, or direct order.
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 [re; William Wilkens] represent the closest connection to the White House to date.
It's summer. Anyone who can possibly flee DC for July/August has done so.
Nothing to see here. move along.
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