WASHINGTON – Late Wednesday, 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 – Iowa’s Chuck Grassley.
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.”
While the Ways and Means Committee investigation into Lerner’s involvement in the potential Grassley examination is ongoing, documents show that Lerner received an invitation to a speaking event that was intended for Senator Grassley. Instead of forwarding the invitation to Grassley’s office, Lerner immediately suggested to others in her office that the issue should be referred for examination. The Committee was able to investigate this information through its authority under Section 6103 of the tax code. A waiver was signed by Senator Grassley and his wife in order to make this information public.
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Pubic servants – well now that the irs has eliminated the private sector mafia .
Come on Chuck, don’t you know that if you aren’t with them, and a Sheeple, your against them, and a terrorist.
This is the most corrupt administration we have ever had. How people can continue to support this bunch is beyond me. They have to be blind, stupid and deaf.
“most corrupt”?
You paranoid right wingers and your selective memory.
Right Wing logic = an oxymoron in action
And speaking of deaf, dumb and blind LVS, you do realize that the IRS Commissioner (2008-2012) during all this was one Doug Shulman.
And Doug Shulman just happened to have been appointed by one George “Dubya” Bush.
And we all know of Dubya’s level of incompetence.
Doesn’t matter who appointed him, if he was human he was capable of breaking the law. It seems as if it is a lot easier for the leftwing fruitcakes to break the law though.
This is rich, only in Iowa do you have nearly retarded people calling others fruitcakes.
@SUCKS-You should know all about being retarded and brain dead drugger.