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High-ranking Internal Revenue Service (IRS) officer Niki Wilkinson posted a lengthy rant on LinkedIn railing against Republicans for their efforts to oust one of her colleagues, who is accused of targeting conservatives, on leave. The Daily Caller<\/a> has the story.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilkinson accused the GOP of \u201cfear mongering\u201d and \u201cfalsely describing\u201d the work of the IRS official, calling their concerns about political targeting a \u201cfarce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilkinson<\/a> made the remarks in a comment on conservative activist Chuck Flint\u2019s post<\/a> about Holly Paz, a former IRS official who served as a deputy<\/a> to Lois Lerner. Lerner was head of the IRS division responsible for the Tea Party targeting scandal during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flint, a former top aide to Republican Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn and the current president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability, praised the decision to put Paz<\/a> on leave, noting that she has recently been accused by lawmakers of again going after conservatives through a Biden-era effort to audit pass-through businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cSuch a farce! Interesting how Senators outside the IRS are fear mongering and falsely describing the work. They have no idea what Examiners found in those audits, which in fact exposed fraud or noncompliance in the passthrough area as for years the IRS didn\u2019t effectively audit them,\u201d Wilkinson wrote in a comment on Flint\u2019s post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the Senators were really so concerned, why not drag them to Congress and review the work that was done especially since the GOP is in the majority and could easily do so,\u201d Wilkinson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOr are they afraid of the [sic] seeing the results and that some of their wealth constituents weren\u2019t as compliant as they should have been!\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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