Report: Lerner Emails Show Partisan Concern For Democrats

Big Government reports:

Former IRS official Louis Lerner and her colleagues at the tax agency were under a tremendous amount of pressure from President Obama and other Democrats to scrutinize a Tea Party applicant for public disclosure, despite rules protecting the privacy of unapproved applications, according to a staff report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

For example, in emails regarding how the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision could imperil the Democrats' majority in the Senate, Lerner wrote that she hoped the Federal Election Commission would “save the day,” apparently by curtailing political speech.

In another email referencing a news article about the businessmen and benefactors Charles and David Koch, Lerner suggested the IRS should begin a “project” to reign in political speech but to craft it in such a way as to avoid the appearance of focusing on political activity.

No word yet on how many IRS workers "contributed " to the Obama campaign in 2012.