Senate committee says Lois Lerner misled investigators in April

Washington Times:

Sens. Carl Levin and John McCain, who together run the Senate’s permanent investigative subcommittee, sent a letter to the IRS on Thursday calling for Lois Lerner, the woman at the center of the agency’s conservative-targeting scandal, to be suspended for dereliction of duty.

Mr. Levin, Michigan Democrat, and Mr. McCain, Arizona Republican, said their committee had already been investigating a different aspect of the IRS division that reviews tax-exempt groups, which Ms. Lerner heads, and they said their investigators interviewed her in April.

She failed to tell the investigators about the already-brewing and soon-to-explode controversy over targeting conservative groups for special scrutiny.

“Given the serious failure by Ms. Lerner to disclose to this Subcommittee key information on topics that the Subcommittee was investigating, we have lost confidence in her ability to fulfill her duties as Director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS,” the two senators said in a letter to Daniel Werfel, the IRS’s acting commissioner.
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Lerner was placed on administrative leave when she refused to resign.  She is making herself a key figure in this investigation and it will be hard for her to push the blame off on subordinates in Cincinnati.