Former IRS director Lois Lerner: 'I didn't do anything wrong'

Former IRS director Lois Lerner: 'I didn't do anything wrong'
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Former IRS official Lois Lerner, who oversaw the agency's probing of Tea Party groups and others applying for tax-exempt status, insists she is not the partisan criminal Republicans made her out to be, and she says she is "not sorry for anything I did."

"I didn't do anything wrong," she tells Politico in an interview published Monday.

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Jon Terbush

Jon Terbush is an associate editor at TheWeek.com covering politics, sports, and other things he finds interesting. He has previously written for Talking Points Memo, Raw Story, and Business Insider.