Surprise: Obama-Appointed IRS Chief Counsel “Helped Develop” Targeting Methods
So says a low-level IRS whistleblower who will testify on Capitol Hill tomorrow morning. The Washington Post reports:
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
some of the first applications the agency 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.) and House
Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), 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.
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