Congressional Investigators Told IRS Agents “Were Being Directly Ordered From Washington” To Target Conservative Groups, Some Tax-Exempt Applications Were Sent Directly To Washington

From the Daily Mail:

Interviews with IRS employees have established that the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service was engaged in targeting tea party groups and other conservative organizations for unfair levels of scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status. 

Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement on CNN Sunday morning. 

‘As late as last week,’ he said, ‘the [Obama] administration was still trying to say the [IRS targeting scandal] was from a few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is that they were directly being ordered from Washington.’ 

A committee spokesman sent MailOnline partial transcripts of two interviews with unnamed IRS workers about the agency’s actions in early 2010, on whose testimony Issa based his bombshell statement. 

One of those interviewees said it was ‘impossible’ for a few IRS agents to have orchestrated such widespread partisan targeting on their own. 

‘Did [your supervisor] give you any indication of the need for the search [for tea party groups], any more context?’ one IRS witness was asked in a closed-door interview.‘He told me that Washington, D.C., wanted some cases,’ came the reply. 

The employee, who said he or she was evaluating 40 such applications for tax-exempt status from conservative organizations at the time, said ‘some went to Washington. D.C. … I sent seven.’

Go read the whole thing.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER: I ATTENDED WHITE HOUSE MEETINGS WITH IRS CHIEF – “I WAS IN THEM”

I THINK THIS STORY IS ANOTHER OBAMA ADMIN. LEAK, SIMILAR TO WHEN LOIS LERNER INITIALLY HAD A "REPORTER" ASK HER A QUESTION AT A NEWS CONFERENCE WHICH LED TO THE REVELATION OF THE IRS SCANDAL IN THE FIRST PLACE.

THEY ONLY LEAK SUCH REVEALING INFORMATION WHEN THEY KNOW IT IS GOING TO COME OUT ANYWAY. 

THAT WAY THEY CAN GET AHEAD OF THE SPIN CYCLE.

Sometimes you just gotta love your enemies. 

From Gateway Pundit:

Yesterday, Stephanie Cutter, Deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign, appeared on Jake Tapper’s show The Lead on CNN.

During the segment Stephanie Cutter admitted she had attended meetings with then IRS Chief Douglas Shulman at the White House:

“A couple of facts here that I think are important for us to stick by, number one, the only reason we know about these visits is because the president makes everything public. Number two, what we’re really looking at some of these visits… What we are looking at the number of times that Mr. Shulman was cleared into the White House. It doesn’t necessarily mean he went to a meeting. Number three, many of those meetings were for healthcare implementation. I was in them with him. So there’s nothing nefarious going on.”

Stephanie Cutter became Barack Obama’s deputy campaign manager in September 2011.
Douglas Shulman, a Democratic donor, was IRS commissioner from March 24, 2008 to November 9, 2012.

Of course, if Obama’s top campaign manager was sitting in meetings with the controversial head of the IRS, this is a very serious development.

The entire segment from The Lead is here.

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

BREAKING>>> LOIS LERNER’S HENCHMEN ASKED GOP CANDIDATE FOR $200,000 PLUS PROMISE TO NEVER RUN AGAIN