Embattled IRS Chief Counsel Met with Obama 2 Days before Agency Changed Targeting Criteria

Here are some excerpts from the Daily Caller, which shines additional light on the possible/probable  involvement of the White House in the IRS’ specific scrutinizing of the Tea Party and other conservative groups’ applications for tax-exempt status:

"The Obama appointee implicated in congressional testimony in the IRS targeting scandal met with President Obama in the White House two days before offering his colleagues a new set of advice on how to scrutinize tea party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.

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. (my emphasis) 

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