[RealJustme]

Dudes, way past time for arrests to be made. There needs to be a march on the IRS and DOJ

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.

The emails show former IRS official Lois Lerner "mistakenly" received an invitation to an event that was meant to go to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

The event organizer apparently offered to pay for Grassley's wife to attend the event. In an email to another IRS official, Lerner suggested referring the matter for an audit of Grassley's tax filings , saying it might be inappropriate for the group to pay for his wife, let's audit him.

The other IRS official, Matthew Giuliano, waved her off, saying an audit would be premature because Grassley didn't even accepted the invitation.

The name of the event organizer was blacked out on copies of the emails released by the House Ways and Means Committee because they were considered confidential taxpayer information. Grassley and his wife signed waivers allowing their names to be released.

In a statement, Grassley's office said the senator did not even attend the event. "This kind of thing fuels the deep concerns many people have about political targeting by the IRS and by officials at the highest levels," Grassley said. "It's very troubling that a simple email could get a taxpayer immediately referred for an IRS exam without any due diligence from agency officials."

"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," Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said. "At every turn, Lerner was using the IRS as a tool for political purposes in defiance of taxpayer rights."

Lerner headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS has acknowledged that agents improperly scrutinized applications by tea party and other conservative groups before the 2010 and 2012 elections. Documents show that some liberal groups were singled out, too.

Grassley had been an outspoken critic of the way the IRS policed tax-exempt groups even before the tea party controversy erupted last year.

Does anyone really believe Lerner "accidently" received an email meant for Senator Grassley? There needs to be arrests made, and it needs to happen soon.

[johnforbes]

This is just like Watergate -- lies at the highest levels of government.

The only difference is that NBC News and CNN don't want to do anything to disturb Obama's tenure as the first affirmative action president.

But, as far as scandals go, both Benghazi and the IRS mess are bigger than Watergate ever was.