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Daily Caller: IRS official met with Obama two days before advising colleagues on how to target conse



Nice piece of dot-connecting by investigative reporter Patrick Howley at the Daily Caller, whose review of the White House visitor logs casts serious doubt on the notion that Obama had nothing to do with IRS targeting of conservative groups. The nuts and bolts are these: William Wilkins is the IRS chief counsel, and one of only two IRS officials directly appointed by Obama. He's the one who issued guidance to others at the IRS about how to target Tea Party groups and other conservatives. And two days before issuing a new set of guidelines to this effect in April, guess where he was:
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who was named in House Oversight testimony by retiring IRS agent Carter Hull as one of his supervisors in the improper targeting of conservative groups, met with Obama in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on April 23, 2012. Wilkins' boss, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, visited the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 24, 2012, according to White House visitor logs. On April 25, 2012, Wilkins' office sent the exempt organizations determinations unit "additional comments on the draft guidance" for approving or denying tea party tax-exempt applications, according to the IRS inspector general's report.

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Between 2010 and 2012, the IRS sent letters demanding groups' training materials, personal information on groups' donors and college interns, and even the content of a religious group's prayers. Wilkins' meeting with Obama on April 23 was attended by 13 people.
So Obama meets with Wilkins on April 23, then Schulman is at the White House on April 24, although we don't know exactly who he was meeting with. Two straight days of top-level IRS officials at the White House. And on the third day, out come the new guidelines for targeting conservatives, issued directly by Wilkins. But don't worry, it was just some rogue employees in Cincinnati. Howley did nice work here, and more uncovering of the truth in this scandal will have to come from people like Howley because - as we showed you recently - the MSM have decided in all their group-think wisdom to declare this scandal "fizzled" and ignore it from this point forward. They think the inclusion of a few liberal-sounding words on the watchword list absolves the IRS and Obama entirely from culpability for what actually happened to conservative groups around the country. Or more to the point, they think it gives them cover to ignore the story, which is what they've really wanted to do all along. It's clear the White House was closely involved with all this, and conservative media will have to keep pressing on it, as will Congressman Darrell Issa in his investigation, because the MSM refuses to do so.


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