How High Did It Go? Veteran IRS Official Testifies That Targeting Involved Top D.C. Officials

Veteran IRS official Carter Hull testified on Thursday that officials from a Washington office, led by a political appointee, was directly involved in the screening of Tea Party applications.

Hull admitted for the first time publicly that the IRS chief counsel’s office was involved in the political targeting. He provided his account of the IRS scandal during testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday.

Hull, a recently retired tax law specialist, was a target of Congress’ investigation into the IRS scandal after an employee in Cincinnati told lawmakers that he had been overseeing her review of applications of Tea Party groups. However, Hull has since revealed that he was also receiving marching orders from those above him.

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