American Thinker, July 22, 2013: The IRS Intervened in Tea Party Elections

Did the IRS intervene in Federal election campaigns for Congress?

According to the Washington Times, U.S. Treasury investigative special agent Dennis Martel has uncovered a new example of political abuse. 

On March 9, 2010, Christine O'Donnell's personal income tax records were illegally accessed by a Delaware public official. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) reports that a previously-undisclosed "back door" to the IRS computer system was used to invade the privacy of Christine O'Donnell's tax records.

Who knew? It turns out that state government criminal investigators can directly -- though illegally -- access IRS records through a "back door." Along with O'Donnell, at least four other political candidates and four conservative donors have been identified so far as victims of this abuse.

A Congressional investigation of the IRS "back door" conducted by Sen. Charles Grassley [R - IA] is now under way. However, even Grassley, Martel, and the Washington Times have not yet put all the pieces together.

Dennis Martel and Sen. Grassley are missing details of how this IRS abuse cleverly sabotaged a U.S. Senate campaign. In this column, we connect the dots using this author's personal knowledge of the O'Donnell campaign.

In May 2013, the IRS was forced to admit that it had been targeting tea party organizations. Details have slowly dripped out concerning the involvement of IRS headquarters in Washington in the persecution of conservative activists. Cincinnati IRS staffer Elizabeth Hofacre has identified IRS attorney Carter C. Hull as supervising the inquisition of tea party applicants.

Then, in a July 18 hearing before Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee, Hull dropped a bigger bomb, revealing that the targeting of tea party groups and other conservatives was directed by the IRS Chief Counsel's office headed by Obama's political appointee William J. Wilkins.

Now, Dennis Martel's new revelation takes the scandal even farther, to individual conservatives and election campaigns. We have discovered how paranoid the IRS was about the tea party. After all, the tea party's mission was to fight taxes. The IRS took that very personally, it now appears.

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