Shocking Lerner email she RECEIVED mistakenly from tea party group proves why they needed watching.

[Fred Sanders]

Last edited Thu Jun 26, 2014, 05:23 PM - Edit history (10)

Turns out the latest non-discovery discovery proves the point as to why the IRS did and should have investigated illegal spending by these groups. And she did not ask for an audit, she inquired about maybe referring this little ditty mistakenly sent to her email, meant for the good wife of Senator Grassley, the grandfather of the tea party morons, to the Examination Section of the audit department for follow up, long way from an audit as the RW claim.

Lerner recognized it for the copy error it was, but asked a colleague what to do with it as it was apparently an illegal activity at face value. Further investigation, was all she was thinking about.....and it did not actually happen. Repeat, no follow up...was Lerner actually covering for the tea party.....??

Remember, always, kiddies, Fox Lies!

The emails appear to show Lerner mistakenly received an invitation intended for Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in 2012.

The event organizer, whose name is not disclosed, apparently offered to pay for Grassley's wife to attend the event, which caught Lerner's attention, because social welfare groups paying money to sitting Senators wives to attend functions is obviously political and the money to be spent like this is obviously illegal for a tax exempt group. The December 2012 emails show that in response, Lerner suggested to an IRS colleague that the case be referred for an audit.

"Looked like they were inappropriately offering to pay for his wife. Perhaps we should refer to Exam?" she wrote.

Her colleague, though, pushed back on the idea, saying an offer to pay for his wife is "not prohibited on its face." There is no indication from the emails that Lerner pursued the issue any further.

So it seems that the real truth here is that Fox and friends are trying to get ahead of the story by turning the truth on its head, and the lazy media just soaks it up, they love Fox lies for ratings.

Income to his wife is income to Grassley, not to mention the illegal gift, and that was what was being discussed and they SHOULD have followed up, which they did not, so Lerner the Evil Lackey of Obama just whiffed on an apparent illegality?

Freaking Republicans have more egg on their face as they twist a negative into some kind of propaganda positive because no one in the media can take the time, 5 minutes in my case, to do some basic research whenever Fox is out with another breathless assertion without evidence.

*And I want to know who sent the email, why did the GOP committee erase that name?*

You have to read the exchange for yourself to see how the GOP has so once again utterly and obviously distorted the truth for purely political and propaganda purposes.

There is nothing there there, except for more evidence of tea party disobeying election and campaign financing and tax laws. A good liberal media would have picked up on this long ago, if not instantaneously.

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/irs_grassley.pdf

Edit @ 5:22 CST:

MSNBC's Steve Benen summarized the exchange:

Behold, yesterday's blockbuster that set the right's hair on fire. Lerner questioned whether a group had done something wrong, talked to a colleague (legal advisor), and then dropped the whole thing.

[lostincalifornia]

1. Probably so, however, it is almost impossible those emails were lost. There are email servers, and

senders and receivers that still have those emails somewhere and they should be able to find them, even if her machine crashed.

That is what baffles me

[Fred Sanders]

2. You should know that at the time, 2011, the records were routinely erased and rewritten after 6

months, so please be unbaffled, please be more questioning of ANYthing coming out of the GOP or RW media, where all facts are distorted. And it is. It like this is the first time for government, and how many times have private business lost recorded information?

It is all propaganda.

[Cerridwen]

3. They are being gathered together.

It's only that headlines say they're gone. Generally the fact that 24,000 of the estimated 67,000 have been retrieved is either not included in any reports or is buried somewhere in the article.

[lostincalifornia]

8. seems reasonable

[malaise]

4. ReTHUGs have one standard modus operandi

A complete inversion of reality to deflect from their criminality.
That's true with the IRS, with Benghazi. with Bergdahl and with voter fraud.

Just turn some lights on the fugging Kochroaches and you'll see who is guilty of what.

[Fred Sanders]

5. I blame the distractees in the media, as much as the distractors. Same old trick, same old willing

lazy fall guys in the media.

After all Fox and friends are just doing their jobs as propagandists, what is the media using as an excuse?

[cheyanne]

6. "mistakenly"???

How could this be sent to Lerner mistakenly? Was it forwarded by someone who knew about the offer of payment?

[Fred Sanders]

7. The GOP blacked out the name, so yeah, that could be.....why can we not have the name, but they

have no problem releasing everyone else's name, including Grassley and wife, who you would think could claim the greatest right to privacy?

Because it is all a fake thing, a propaganda thing, a red meat thing, and you get a pas from the MSM if you are not really serious about the accusation, it is just to motivate the yelping base. All is forgiven.

[rtracey]

9. start

Time to start some Senate investigations on the investigations the GOP are running. I believe the corruption in the Republican Party has come full circle

[Ikonoklast]

10. Issa refuses to offer immunity to Lerner. Wonder why?

Because if he does, this whole shitbomb blows up in Teabagger's faces.