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From The Hill:
- Irs Chief Counsel Met With Obama White House For Seven Hours Just 2 Days Before Irs Released Criteria To Target Tea Party Groups
ScumFrom the Daily Caller:The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party...
- New Testimony: Lois Lerner & Obama Appointee Were Behind Tea Party Targeting
From Ace: New testimony from IRS officials claims that Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations division, instructed employees to send Tea Party group applications for tax-exempt status through a multi-layered review that included...
- Breaking: New Irs Chief Says Targeting Of Conservative Groups Was Broader And Longer Than Previously Disclosed – Agency Improperly Screened Groups Until Last Month…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Internal Revenue Service says inappropriate screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than was previously disclosed. Danny Werfel told reporters Monday that after becoming...
- It’s Good To Know The Govt Knows Who The Real Terrorists Are
NRO:The IRS vs. Pro-Israel Groups Their applications for tax-exempt status are routed to an antiterrorism unit. Applications of pro-Israel groups for tax-exempt status are routinely routed to an antiterrorism unit within the Internal Revenue...
- Senior Washington Irs Official & Obama Donor Admits To Targeting Tea Party Groups
From FOX News: An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished...
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Cincinnati IRS Staffer Tells Congressional Investigators: Washington Showed “Unusual” Interest In Tea Party Cases, “Was Over The Top”
Don't I look marvelous, like I belong in a Fitzgerald novel?
From The Hill:
An IRS staffer in Cincinnati told congressional investigators that a Washington official was the driving force behind the targeting of Tea Party organizations in 2010, and showed unprecedented interest in those groups’ tax-exempt applications.
Elizabeth Hofacre, the Cincinnati staffer, said that she started receiving applications from Tea Party groups to sift through in April, 2010. Hofacre’s handling of those cases, she said, was highly influenced by Carter Hull, an IRS lawyer in Washington.
Hofacre said that she integrated questions from Hull into her follow-ups with Tea Party groups, and that Hull had to approve the letters seeking more information that she sent out to those organizations. That process, she said, was both unusual and “demeaning.”
“One of the criteria is to work independently and do research and make decisions based on your experience and education,” Hofacre said, according to transcripts reviewed by The Hill. “Whereas in this case, I had no autonomy at all through the process.”
“I thought it was over the top,” she added, in interviews held by investigators in both parties from the House Oversight and Ways and Means committees. “I am not sure where it came from, but it was a bit unusual.”
- Irs Chief Counsel Met With Obama White House For Seven Hours Just 2 Days Before Irs Released Criteria To Target Tea Party Groups
ScumFrom the Daily Caller:The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party...
- New Testimony: Lois Lerner & Obama Appointee Were Behind Tea Party Targeting
From Ace: New testimony from IRS officials claims that Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations division, instructed employees to send Tea Party group applications for tax-exempt status through a multi-layered review that included...
- Breaking: New Irs Chief Says Targeting Of Conservative Groups Was Broader And Longer Than Previously Disclosed – Agency Improperly Screened Groups Until Last Month…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Internal Revenue Service says inappropriate screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than was previously disclosed. Danny Werfel told reporters Monday that after becoming...
- It’s Good To Know The Govt Knows Who The Real Terrorists Are
NRO:The IRS vs. Pro-Israel Groups Their applications for tax-exempt status are routed to an antiterrorism unit. Applications of pro-Israel groups for tax-exempt status are routinely routed to an antiterrorism unit within the Internal Revenue...
- Senior Washington Irs Official & Obama Donor Admits To Targeting Tea Party Groups
From FOX News: An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished...