IRS Scandal Connected To White House

[Edgetho]

This isn't going away, people.

IRS Conservative Targeting Scandal Reaches The White House, Obama-Appointed IRS Chief Counsel Behind Singling Out Tea Party Groups…



The chief counsel is one of only two political appointees at the IRS.

From that bastion of Conservatism WaPo:

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 represent the closest connection to the White House to date.

According to a partial transcript released by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the chief counsel’s office also discussed using a template letter to ask questions about the groups’ activities, despite Hull’s warning that such a boilerplate approach would be impractical.

“My reviewer and I both said a template makes absolutely no difference because these organizations, all of them are different,” Hull told investigators. “A template would not work.”

Hull told investigators that he had already requested additional information from the applicants at that point and felt he had enough facts to make a determination about their eligibility, according to the transcripts.

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Social welfare groups, known as 501 (c)(4)s, faced delays lasting months and even years as the IRS reviewed their applications during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles

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dimocraps = criminals.

The entire party is a criminal organization

And their constituents? Not interested. Don't care.

 

[LadyGunSlinger]

We all knew it went to the WH.. Only the Zombie nut sucking leftists played their propaganda game in order to cover for their god. I hope they all rot in jail!

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

Talk about cutting and pasting....How about not editing out a few things?:

"Previous accounts from IRS employees had shown that Washington IRS officials were involved in the controversy, but Hull’s comments represent the closest connection to the White House to date. No evidence so far has definitively linked the White House to the agency’s actions."""

This is going to turn out to be a big waste of time, there were no laws broken. A veritable tsunami of conservative groups applied for 501c4 status after Obama was elected. In addition to that, the language of the law was changed to using the word "primarily" in describing what a group's activities involved, in that they had to primarily be involved in social programs, not political.

Oh, and by the way, let's not forget that none of these applications were turned down, they were all approved. Even though the Tea Baggers have grossly abused their 501c4 status.

 

[NoTeaPartyPleez]

We all knew it went to the WH.. Only the Zombie nut sucking leftists played their propaganda game in order to cover for their god. I hope they all rot in jail!

Why don't you actually read the article linked instead of popping your toy gun from the hip?

 

[bendog]

We all knew it went to the WH.. Only the Zombie nut sucking leftists played their propaganda game in order to cover for their god. I hope they all rot in jail!

Why don't you actually read the article linked instead of popping your toy gun from the hip?

low information voters. They hope.