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Ex-Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner tried to audit Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley after Grassley blocked President Obama’s nominee to head the Department of Justice (DOJ) tax division, an executive branch insider told The Daily Caller.

Grassley made it more difficult for the IRS and DOJ to work together to target conservative groups by blocking Obama’s political appointee Mary L. Smith from taking over the DOJ Tax Division, which prosecutes criminal cases for the IRS. Grassley held up the nomination in early 2010, just as Lerner and fellow IRS officials were mapping out their targeting strategy. The White House later withdrew Smith’s nomination.

Some cool stuff in her background. But there’s something oddly missing from these lists… Oh, say, tax?

That’s right: she has no tax experience. She has never written a paper on tax, spoken on tax or even taken a CLE on tax.

She also has no experience as a prosecutor.

And yet, she’s been asked to serve as one of the highest ranking attorneys in the Tax Division of the judiciary.

I agree with Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) who spoke out against Smith’s nomination, saying, “Tax law is very specialized and it’s certainly not an area where you learn on the job.” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) noted that there must have been “thousands of highly experienced tax lawyers who would love to have a job like this.”

Um, yeah.

So why Smith? Clearly, it’s a political move. No Democrats offered clear support for Smith but still voted to send her nomination to the Senate. The committee vote was 12-7 in favor.