Just days after he announced another run, U.S. Senator John McCain has caught the attention of conservative watchdogs for his war on the Tea Party. Judicial Watch revealed on Friday that key McCain aides applied pressure on the IRS to shut down Tea Party type conservative tax-exempt organizations.
Judicial Watch reported that a new batch of documents “raise questions about the judgement of Senator John McCain (R-AZ). A May 1, 2013, email exchange between Lois Lerner and other top IRS staffers revealed that she met with select top staffers from the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee in a “marathon” meeting to discuss concerns raised by both Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) and Sen. McCain that the IRS was not reining in political advocacy groups in response to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. This occurred 11 days prior to Lerner’s admission, during an American Bar Association meeting, that the IRS had “inappropriately” targeted conservative groups. These emails show for the first time that those attending this pressure meeting were key aides to McCain, the ranking minority member of the committee:
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