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

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.