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Lerner: Senators ‘Evil and Dishonest’

IRS official slammed politicians in private emails.

Lois Lerner, the former director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Unit, had no kind words for GOP senators as they investigated her role in a scandal about political nonprofits, documents released by the Senate Finance Committee show. “They called me back to testify on the IRS ‘scandal,’ and I too[k] the 5th again because they had been so evil and dishonest in my lawyer’s dealings with them,” she wrote in one email obtained by Politico. “I was never a political person—this whole fiasco has only made me lose all respect [for] politics and politicians. I am merely a pawn in their game to take over the Senate,” she wrote in another.