FEC Vice-Chair says he has viewed emails that may point to collusion with IRS in targeting conservatives

CNN reports on potential collusion between the FEC and the IRS.  It wouldn’t surprise conservatives. 

The vice chairman of the Federal Election Commission told CNN on
Monday he has seen numerous undisclosed e-mails between FEC staffers and
the Internal Revenue Service that raise new questions about potential
collusion between the two federal agencies in the alleged targeting of
conservative political groups.

Don McGahn, a Republican
FEC commissioner, said an investigator from his agency contacted Lois
Lerner, the IRS employee at the center of the political storm now
engulfing that agency.

He said the contact was made to discuss the status of one such conservative political advocacy group, the American Future Fund.


Shortly after Lerner was contacted, the IRS sent a questionnaire to the American Future Fund, McGahn added.


“Who’s the dog and who’s
the tail (in this case)? Who knows,” McGahn said. But “dealing with Lois
Lerner is probably out of the ordinary.”


The answers, McGahn stressed, “could be benign (or) could be more sinister.”