Sen. McCain and Sen. Levin urged IRS to target Tea Party, conservative groups
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."
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.
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This part brings back memories of Nixon:
“.... 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. - ...”
They got Nixon on his —planning— to use the IRS on his enemies
... 0 and this bunch have actually —used— the IRS against their enemies.
IMPEACH!!!!!
That POS is on our local radio talk show quite often. I’m saving this thread and will phone in the next time I hear he’ll be on....unless the call screener won’t put me on. Won’t do any good to call or email. I’ve done that and all I get is some airhead telling me that she’ll pass the comment on to the senator.
Just now reading thru this
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What other positions of power/intelligence has McCain had access?
Is there anything in his past that could be used to blackmail him ;-)
Was his winning the nomination and not the presidency a ruse?
Well now, isn’t that special.