Saturday, July 20, 2013
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Obama’s IRS Appointee Scheduled WH Visit 1 Day After IRS Meeting on Tea Party
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| IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkens. (Photo: IRS) |
(CNSNews.com) – One day after an Aug. 4, 2011 meeting of IRS officials who gathered to discuss the handling of Tea Party tax-exemption applications, an appointment was made for William J. Wilkins, head of the IRS Chief Counsel’s office and one of only two political appointees there, to meet at the White House.
Four days later, on Aug. 9, 2011, Wilkins kept that appointment, according to White House visitor records.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) report on IRS scrutiny of Tea Party groups released in May of this year, states that on Aug. 4, 2011, officials from the IRS Chief Counsel’s office and the Rulings and Agreements office met to discuss the agency’s handling of Tea Party applications, “so that everyone would have the latest information on the issue.”During a House Oversight Committee hearing on July 18, 2013, Carter Hull, an IRS employee of 48 years and expert in nonprofit tax law who had been assigned Tea Party applications since April 2010, testified that he attended a meeting in August 2011 where employees of the Chief Counsel’s office were present. At that meeting, they discussed the handling of Tea Party tax-exemption applications.
“In August 2011, I attended a meeting at which the applications assigned to me were discussed,” said Hull in his prepared testimony. “I recall that Don Spellman, David Marshall, and Amy Franklin from Chief Counsel’s Office were at the meeting, as well as tax law specialists Justin Lowe, Hillary Goehausen and Ms. Kastenberg.”
“I recall that Ms. Franklin or someone else from Chief Counsel’s Office stated that more current information was needed for my [Tea Party] applications and that a second development letter should be sent to the applicants,” said Hull. “I also recall a discussion about the creation of a template development letter for the Tea Party applications. I expressed my opinion that a template was not a good idea, as there was a great deal of variance among the groups and each application needed to be developed according to its particular facts and circumstances.”
“After the August 2011 meeting, the [Tea Party] applications assigned to me were transferred to another tax law specialist, Ms. Goehausen,” said Hull. “After the applications were transferred, I had no further involvement with respect to the Tea Party applications.”
IRS official Carter Hull testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, July 18, 2013. (AP)The TIGTA report lists an Aug. 4, 2011 meeting and also one on Aug. 10, 2011 but the event description for the latter is redacted. The report does not name the persons who attended the Aug. 4 meeting, and the IRS has said that Wilkins was not at that meeting.
Nonetheless, White House visitor access records show that on Aug. 5, 2011, an appointment was made for William J. Wilkins to meet, on Aug. 9, 2011, with Jamal Pope, who is special assistant for White House Initiatives at the Department of Commerce.
The records show that Wilkins was there on Aug. 9, arriving at 7:56 a.m. and then departing at 12:21 p.m.
When asked in May of this year if the subject of the Aug. 4, 2011 IRS meeting on Tea Party scrutiny was then communicated to the White House, Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters, “I’ll have to look at that. I don’t know that that’s the case. … The president found out about this through media reports on Friday. That’s how I found out about it."
"The White House Counsel’s Office was notified a few weeks ago, through the Treasury Department, about the Inspector General’s review and that it was coming to a conclusion," said Carney. "And that is a fairly routine matter, when an Inspector General review is being concluded and will be made public, that there is a notification.”
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IRS official Lois Lerner at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, where she pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination.
Carter Hull started working at the IRS in 1965. He has served in the office of Exempt Organizations (EO) since 1975 and he just retired on June 28, 2013. He is an expert on non-profit tax rules.
In his prepared testimony for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Hull said his supervisor in April 2010 assigned him to work on “two applications from Tea Party groups” as “test cases” for handling other Tea Party applications that had been assigned to IRS workers in Cincinnati.
Hull worked in Washington, D.C.After analyzing the applications he had, Hull made his recommendations for how such applications should be handled and passed his analysis to his reviewer, Elizabeth Kastenberg. “[S]he suggested that I forward the recommendations to Judy Kindell, who was at the time a senior technical adviser to Lois Lerner. I later had a meeting with Ms. Kindell and Ms. Kastenberg in March 2011 at which Ms. Kindell told me to forward my recommendations to the Office of Chief Counsel for their review.”
Lois Lerner, now on paid administrative leave, was the director of the EO division at the IRS. She pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination before Congress and her lawyer says she will testify if she is given immunity from potential prosecution.
While working on the Tea Party documents, “at the request of my supervisor, I prepared Sensitive Case Reports on a monthly basis regarding the Tea Party applications,” Carter Hull said in his testimony.
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| Tea Party activists. (AP Photo/Al Behrman) |
That was the meeting, said Hull, where at least three people from the Chief Counsel’s office were present, along with tax specialists Justin Lowe, Hillary Goehausen and Kastenberg.
The IRS Chief Counsel’s office, headed by Wilkins, wanted more information collected relative to the Tea Party applications.
Ronald Shoemaker, who supervised Hull, told investigators for the House Oversight Committee about the interest of the IRS Chief Counsel’s office in the 2010 political, election activity of Tea Party applicants.
As the Committee revealed in a July 17 letter, Shoemaker said, “Counsel was not very forthcoming on what their opinion was. But we discussed it to some extent and they indicated that they wanted more development of possible political activity or political intervention right before the election period; that that had not occurred and that that’s what was missing. … Of [redacted] right before the election period. In other words, immediately before.”
In the November 2010 election, the Republican Party won control of the House of Representatives and John Boehner of Ohio became the new Speaker of the House.
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FBI INSISTS WEATHER UNDERGROUND BOMBER BILL AYERS IS A DOMESTIC TERRORIST
During an interview with the State Journal-Register in Illinois, William Ayers, one of the founders of the Weather Underground, who launched President Obama’s political career at his Chicago home, insisted he was “absolutely not” a domestic terrorist.
But that’s not what the Federal Bureau of investigations (FBI) insists.
According to declassified FBI reports on the Weather Underground, reports that the mainstream press ignored and were public prior to the 2008 presidential elections, in the section entitled, “A Byte Out of History: 1975 Terrorism Flashback: State Department Bombing:” the FBI wrote:
Twenty-nine years ago Thursday, an explosion rocked the headquarters of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. No one was hurt, but the damage was extensive, impacting twenty offices on three separate floors. Hours later, another bomb was found at a military induction center in Oakland, California, and safely detonated. A domestic terrorist group called the Weather Underground claimed responsibility. Remember them? (emphasis mine)
Who were these extremists? The Weather Underground—originally called the Weathermen, taken from a line in a Bob Dylan song—was a small, violent offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), created in the turbulent ‘60s to promote social change.
When the SDS collapsed in 1969, the Weather Underground stepped forward, inspired by communist ideologies and embracing violence and crime as a way to protest the Vietnam War, racism, and other left-wing aims. “Our intention is to disrupt the empire...to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks,” claimed the group’s 1974 manifesto, Prairie Fire. By the next year, the group had claimed credit for 25 bombings and would be involved in many more over the next several years.
Moreover, Ayers is at best exceptionally disingenuous when he falsely claimed in theState-Journal Register interview: “We never hurt anybody and we never killed anybody.”
As the FBI reports: “The FBI doggedly pursued these terrorists as their attacks mounted. Many members were soon identified, but their small numbers and guerilla tactics helped them hide under assumed identities. In 1978, however, the Bureau arrested five members who were plotting to bomb a politician’s office. More were arrested when an accident destroyed the group’s bomb factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Others were identified after two policemen and a Brinks’ driver were murdered in a botched armored car robbery in Nanuet, New York ... " (Italics mine)
There are people, like Ayers, who seem to believe that despite the facts they can rewrite history, and with a complacent media, he might have been successful but not anymore. What is new about Ayers is his rhetoric. Still a hard-core anti-capitalist and admitted communist with a small ‘c’, Ayers has dropped some of his Weather Underground rhetoric such as not calling police officers “pigs” in public anymore but that does not mean President Obama’s family friend is not as the FBI determined him to be-- a domestic terrorist.
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But that’s not what the Federal Bureau of investigations (FBI) insists.
According to declassified FBI reports on the Weather Underground, reports that the mainstream press ignored and were public prior to the 2008 presidential elections, in the section entitled, “A Byte Out of History: 1975 Terrorism Flashback: State Department Bombing:” the FBI wrote:
Twenty-nine years ago Thursday, an explosion rocked the headquarters of the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. No one was hurt, but the damage was extensive, impacting twenty offices on three separate floors. Hours later, another bomb was found at a military induction center in Oakland, California, and safely detonated. A domestic terrorist group called the Weather Underground claimed responsibility. Remember them? (emphasis mine)
Who were these extremists? The Weather Underground—originally called the Weathermen, taken from a line in a Bob Dylan song—was a small, violent offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), created in the turbulent ‘60s to promote social change.
When the SDS collapsed in 1969, the Weather Underground stepped forward, inspired by communist ideologies and embracing violence and crime as a way to protest the Vietnam War, racism, and other left-wing aims. “Our intention is to disrupt the empire...to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks,” claimed the group’s 1974 manifesto, Prairie Fire. By the next year, the group had claimed credit for 25 bombings and would be involved in many more over the next several years.
Moreover, Ayers is at best exceptionally disingenuous when he falsely claimed in theState-Journal Register interview: “We never hurt anybody and we never killed anybody.”
As the FBI reports: “The FBI doggedly pursued these terrorists as their attacks mounted. Many members were soon identified, but their small numbers and guerilla tactics helped them hide under assumed identities. In 1978, however, the Bureau arrested five members who were plotting to bomb a politician’s office. More were arrested when an accident destroyed the group’s bomb factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Others were identified after two policemen and a Brinks’ driver were murdered in a botched armored car robbery in Nanuet, New York ... " (Italics mine)
There are people, like Ayers, who seem to believe that despite the facts they can rewrite history, and with a complacent media, he might have been successful but not anymore. What is new about Ayers is his rhetoric. Still a hard-core anti-capitalist and admitted communist with a small ‘c’, Ayers has dropped some of his Weather Underground rhetoric such as not calling police officers “pigs” in public anymore but that does not mean President Obama’s family friend is not as the FBI determined him to be-- a domestic terrorist.
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Weather Underground Bomber Ayers Insists 'He's Not a Domestic Terrorist’
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