Sens. McCain and Levin urged IRS to target Tea Party, conservative groups

examiner.com ^ | April 10, 2015 | Jim Kouri

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Government documents obtained by a top "Inside the Beltway" watchdog group and released on Thursday reveal that Internal Revenue Service's Lois Lerner was strongly urged by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, and Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, her assistance in attacking certain non-profit political groups. The organizations they selected for targeting by Lerner were part of the Tea Party and conservative movements.

Newly released documents revealed that Sen. Levin (left) and Sen. McCain both urged the IRS to target conservative groups in the wake of the Citizens United decision.

The group that investigates and exposes government corruption, Judicial Watch, released newly acquired IRS documents, including an email from Ms. Lerner in February 2012 requesting she “put together some training points to help them [IRS staffers] understand the potential pitfalls of revealing too much information to Congress."

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One of the released documents is a Lerner email from 2013 that she was willing to 'take a bullet" for Obama and his White House for the IRS scandal and that she understood why the targeting of Tea Party organizations and other conservative groups may raise questions regarding what did President Obama know and when did he know it. Obama had told the press that he first read about the IRS targeting of conservatives in the newspaper.

[virgil]

They’re all crooks. That’s why nothing is going to come of this.

[BenLurkin]

In a just world, the 2012 election results would be invalidated — and Obama removed from office forthwith.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[Georgia Girl 2]

McStain and Levin need to be hauled up in front of the oversight committee especially McStain. He needs to be flogged by Trey Gowdy on National TV at the very least. Both of them really need go to the slam.

[Darksheare]

In a just world, a bunch of those jerks would be wearing tar and feathers while being chased by angry mobs.

[ridesthemiles]

Another nail in the coffin of McCain, IMO.

He is not to be trusted.

[Publius]

This explains why House Republicans were unenthusiastic about investigating this case. It would embarrass a pillar of the party.

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you ARIZONA! Just thanks a whole heap!

Anyone that thought Rep. J.D. Hayworth could be worse, gets my golden fickled finger of fate award for 2010.

Over and over and over again, the McCain dividends just keep piling up... for the Democrats! THE DEMOCRATS!!!

What a bunch of dumb ass Republicans...

[DoughtyOne]

N E V E R - W A S

[jsanders2001]

I would expect such from McVain. He fears the Tea Party because he knows they can unseat him. He thought he could destroy the Tea Party using dirty tactics. Honest politicians have nothing to worry about from The Tea Party; only crooks do. Explains why McCain Fears them.

[Diogenesis]

American Traitor McCain was busy -- setting up Benghazi and ISIS
but STILL had time to lead the IRS to attack REAL CONSERVATIVES.

[conservativejoy]

Wow! I hope Kelli Ward uses this to primary McCain OUT!

[tumblindice]

” ... The incredible email from Lois Lerner admitting (and denying) culpability by her and the IRS in the scandal further undermines President Obama’s lie that the IRS scandal was entirely the fault of ‘bonehead decisions in local offices.’”

Like Lerner made her argument to Congress, then claimed the 5th. Obama’s people always have to have it both ways.

[ravenwolf]

Well, maybe there are times when lynch mobs could be acceptable, this being one of them.

[Engraved-on-His-hands]

Would somebody remind me again why I should vote for the nominee of the Republican Party?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I hope this tanks McCain’s re-election bid. And I don’t give a crap he was a POW. (spit)

[onyx]

THIS NEWS prompts me to write that for the first time, since his passing, I am actually relieved that my sweet husband isn't alive to know this about McCain.

[HarleyLady27]

How nice....(just plain out of words and shaking my head)

[txhurl]

Probably why McLettuce chose Palin in the first place, to sniff/flush out the Proto-Tea Party structure, so as to to eliminate it before it got off the ground.

Backfired on the @$$hole, did it not? Burn in Hell, McCain.