Who intervened with the IRS to get this guy a senior position there?

Patrick Poole has an important exclusive report at PJ Media. A former policeman convicted of tipping off a terror suspect is now a senior official at the IRS! Poole writes,

While IRS officials were targeting Tea Party groups for special scrutiny of their 501(c)3 tax exempt applications, the IRS also hired a policeman who had been prosecuted by the Justice Department — and convicted in federal court — of using his access to the FBI’s NCIC system to tip off a terror suspect about the bureau’s surveillance. The leak wrecked a major terror investigation.

He is still at the IRS.