Congress's investigation into the IRS targeting of
conservatives has been continuing out of the Syria headlines, and it's turning
up news. Emails unearthed by the House Ways and Means Committee between former
Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner and her staff raise doubts about
IRS claims that the targeting wasn't politically motivated and that low-level
employees in Cincinnati masterminded the operation.
In a February 2011 email, Ms. Lerner advised her
staff—including then Exempt Organizations Technical Manager Michael Seto and
then Rulings and Agreements director Holly Paz—that a Tea Party matter is
"very dangerous," and is something "Counsel and [Lerner adviser]
Judy Kindell need to be in on." Ms. Lerner adds, "Cincy should
probably NOT have these cases."
That's a different tune than
the IRS sang in May when former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller said the
agency's overzealous enforcement was the work of two "rogue"
employees in Cincinnati. When the story broke, Ms. Lerner suggested that her
office had been unaware of the pattern of targeting until she read about it in
the newspaper. "So it was pretty much we started seeing information in the
press that raised questions for us, and we went back and took a look," she
said in May.....To Read More....
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