Newly released emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner show that the woman at the center of the IRS targeting scandal had a harsh political bias against conservatives.

Associated Press:

In the newly released emails, Lerner apparently was traveling in Britain in November 2012 when she used her Blackberry to send a series of emails to a personal associate who did not work at the IRS. Camp said Lerner was using her government email account.

Lerner told the person that she overheard some women say America was bankrupt and "going down the tubes."

"Well, you should hear the whacko wing of the GOP," replied the person, whose name was blacked out by Camp's office. "The US is through; too many foreigners sucking the teat; time to hunker down, buy ammo and food, and prepare for the end. The right wing radio shows are scary to listen to."

Lerner replies: "Great. Maybe we are through if there are that many assholes."

The other person replies: "And I'm talking about the hosts of the shows. The callers are rabid."

Lerner: "So we don't need to worry about alien teRrorists (sic). It's our own crazies that will take us down."

In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Camp said, "This email shows that Ms. Lerner's mistreatment of conservative groups was driven by her personal hostility toward conservatives."

Lerner has emerged as a central figure in several congressional investigations into the tax agency's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups. Twice Lerner refused to answer questions at congressional hearings, invoking her constitutional right against self-incrimination.

In May, the House voted to hold her in contempt of Congress.

You can imagine what's in some of those  lost emails.

Lerner is a hack. She was a hack at the FEC, doing Democrat's dirty work there. In 1996, Senator Dick Durbin was running against Republican Al Salvi when the FEC filed a complaint against him.

The head of the enforcement division of the FEC at the time was Lois Lerner:

During the last several weeks of the 1996 Illinois U.S. Senate campaign, two FEC complaints were filed against Salvi - one by Illinois Democrats about the way he reported a loan he made to himself, and another by the Democratic Senatorial Committee about a reported business donation.

Salvi made a personal loan to his campaign for $1.1 million to fund the last campaign ads in the expensive Chicago television ad market. News of that loan and the filed FEC complaint dominated Chicago media headlines towards the end of the campaign, suffocating the life out of Salvi's threatening momentum.

"We couldn't get our message out because day after day, the media carried story after story about the FEC complaint," Salvi told Illinois Review in an exclusive interview.

After Salvi lost to Durbin, he was left to face the FEC complaints. The Commission alleged that the Salvi committee:

• Reported bank loans to Mr. Salvi as personal loans from the candidate, never identifying the source of the funds;
• Failed to report debts to the candidate;
• Failed to file 48-hour notices for personal advances from the candidate; and
• Failed to disclose campaign-related payments by the candidate to vendors and a bank.

A federal district court dismissed the case against Salvi in 1999, and the FEC appealed it to the 7th U.S. District Court of Appeals.

Salvi's case was eventually dismissed entirely.

"The judge said to Lerner, 'Let me get this straight - Mr. Salvi loaning himself money is legal, and you have no complaint against that, is that right?'" Salvi said. "Ms. Lerner agreed. Then the judge said, 'You just don't like the way his attorneys filled out the report?' Lerner agreed."

Case dismissed, the judge said shaking his head and pounding his gavel, as Lerner objected.

"We never lose!" Lerner said to Salvi afterwards.

Lerner made it clear to Salvi at one point, his options were limited:

It was while dealing with the FEC complaint that Salvi says he first met Lois Lerner, then the head of the FEC Enforcement Division.

During one conversation with Lerner, she offered a deal Salvi says he'll never forget, and neither will his brother and attorney, Mike Salvi.

"She said, 'If you promise to never run for office again, we'll drop this case,'" Salvi recalled.

Needless to say, putting someone with this kind of rancid partisan attitude in a position where objectivity is paramount only shows the incredible dysfunction of IRS leadership.