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Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes a sitting United States Senator. According to emails reviewed by the Committee under its Section 6103 authority, which allows the Committee to review confidential taxpayer information, Lois Lerner sought to have Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.
“We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking,” said Camp. “At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights. We may never know the full extent of the abuse since the IRS conveniently lost two years of Lerner emails, not to mention those of other key figures in this scandal. The fact that DOJ refuses to investigate the IRS’s abuses or appoint a special counsel demonstrates, yet again, this Administration’s unwillingness to uphold the rule of law.”
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: xuenchen
Waiting to see how the Obamabots play this one off.
I guess they will use their witch hunt mantra.
And the POTUS is black.
originally posted by: Snarl
However, she's serving well as a point of distraction. As long as her name stays in the spotlight, the IRS is safe from any real scrutiny.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Sort of makes you wonder what's in those emails that we "can't find" doesn't it?
originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: butcherguy
a reply to: xuenchen
Waiting to see how the Obamabots play this one off.
I guess they will use their witch hunt mantra.
And the POTUS is black.
And maybe the old "well the guy is a guilty tax cheat" routine.
And of course she was just doing her job.
My stopwatch is ticking.
Bombshell-> Lois Lerner Targeted a Sitting U.S. Senator
originally posted by: Not Authorized
a reply to: xuenchen
I hear it now. Poor Lois. All she was doing, was her job. Why pick on her.
Now she dances tantalizingly closer to an obvious Title 18 USC 4 violation. Lois forgot some of us work daily with email, and archiving.
Whoever, having knowledge of the actual commission of a felony cognizable by a court of the United States, conceals and does not as soon as possible make known the same to some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
originally posted by: beezzer
Bombshell-> Lois Lerner Targeted a Sitting U.S. Senator
Under who's orders?
Lerner doesn't hold an elected seat. So she did not do this to be self serving.
She was doing someone's bidding.
Hmmm. . . . . who would have a political motivation to weaken or distract or even investigate a sitting republican senator?