This does not look good:
#BREAKING: #IRS email dump to Congress reveal Lois Lerner sought to have Sen Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014
Sources tell Fox #IRS's Lerner came across invitation for Grassley to event. Lerner then referred Grassley for probe.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014
Ways/Means Cmte Chair Camp finds effort by Lerner to target Sen Grassley "shocking" #IRS
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014
Camp: At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014
#IRS Emails reveal Lerner mistakenly received invitation to a speaking event for Grassley. Referred him for possible tax probe.
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 25, 2014
Damning.
Whoa. Lois Lerner tried to target Sen. Grassley. From House Ways and Means http://t.co/dvNVmTXtu5
— Amanda Carpenter (@amandacarpenter) June 25, 2014
From the House Ways and Means Committee’s statement:
“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.”
Wow.
wut RT @ChadPergram:: #IRS email dump to Congress reveal Lois Lerner sought to have Sen Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 25, 2014
Holy holy shit https://t.co/X2Z5gG0Gj6
— Sunny (@sunnyright) June 25, 2014
WHOA RT @HRTMotorsports Wait. What the fuck? https://t.co/0VcjKtMrOK … @RBPundit @PolitiBunny
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 25, 2014
Lois Lerner was using the IRS to target sitting Republican Senators now.. This used to be called treason.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 25, 2014
That loud noise you just heard is another shit-ton of IRS hard drives accidentally going in the industrial shredder https://t.co/yMtqcjP085
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 25, 2014
We’ve only just begun.
Not even a smidgen. pic.twitter.com/8E9J9vW1iC
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) June 25, 2014
Not one smidgen, but a crapload of them.
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Here are the emails in question, by the way: http://t.co/R1oHj2ruGu
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) June 25, 2014
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Related:
Twitchy coverage of Lois Lerner
