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alp227

(32,013 posts) Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:09 PM Jun 2014

Emails: IRS official sought audit of GOP senator

Source: AP

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 suggests referring the matter for an audit, saying it might be inappropriate for the group to pay for his wife.

"Perhaps we should refer to exam?" Lerner wrote.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/emails-irs-official-sought-audit-gop-senator

This story makes it all the more clear that this "IRS scandal" is basically run by a bunch of thought police officers wearing tinfoil hats...never mind that the fact that the ONLY group denied tax-exempt status...was a left wing group! (But you won't learn that from the AP and "liberal media.&quot

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Emails: IRS official sought audit of GOP senator (Original Post) alp227 Jun 2014 OP

Shitty AP headline is contradicted in the report TriplD Jun 2014 #1

AP = All Propaganda. savalez Jun 2014 #2

And Stephen Ohlemacher, the reporter of this story, also repeated a right wing talking point alp227 Jun 2014 #3

Is the AP often this slanted, or poorly editted? elias49 Jun 2014 #4

OFTEN. They have been blatantly proGOP since the 80s. They used to censor IranContra stories blm Jun 2014 #5

Aahhh, the 80's. When under Reagan the country started on the road to hell in a hand basket. nt kelliekat44 Jun 2014 #6

That's for sure...worse, in some ways, that GWB. elias49 Jun 2014 #7

TriplD

(176 posts)

1. Shitty AP headline is contradicted in the report

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:36 PM

Jun 2014

It was unclear from the emails whether Lerner was suggesting that Grassley or the group be audited — or both.

savalez

(3,517 posts)

2. AP = All Propaganda.

Reply to TriplD (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:39 PM

Jun 2014

alp227

(32,013 posts)

3. And Stephen Ohlemacher, the reporter of this story, also repeated a right wing talking point

Reply to TriplD (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 25, 2014, 07:41 PM

Jun 2014

in using a phrase "tea party investigation"...which is just as reality-based as Saddam Hussein's 9/11 plot.

elias49

(4,259 posts)

4. Is the AP often this slanted, or poorly editted?

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Wed Jun 25, 2014, 08:19 PM

Jun 2014

I guess I haven't paid attention. I've long thought that the AP and UPI were old standards that you could count on to be impartial, straight news organs.