Newly-released emails between disgraced Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and her staff may contradict earlier claims that the agency’s harsh treatment of conservative groups was not politically motivated.

One email shows Lerner, then the director of the tax-exempt organizations division, advising her staff in February 2011 that a Tea Party matter is “very dangerous,” and is something “Counsel and [Lerner adviser] Judy Kindell need to be in on.”

Newly-released emails from IRS official Lois Lerner are raising new questions about the Tea Party scandal. (Getty Images)

The February email, uncovered by the House Ways and Means Committee, adds: “Cincy should probably NOT have these cases.”

Lerner’s staff at the time included then-Exempt Organizations Technical Manager Michael Seto and then-Rulings and Agreements director Holly Paz, who was fired from the agency earlier this year.

IRS lawyer Carter Hull testified about his role in the agency’s targeting earlier this summer. His involvement in overseeing Tea Party cases began in 2010.

The cases are “being supervised by Chip Hull at each step,” Paz wrote to Lerner in a February 2011 email. “He reviews info from TPs, correspondence to TPs etc. No decisions are going out of Cincy until we go all the way through the process with the c3 and c4 cases here

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