Posted on 11/22/2014 5:28:08 PM PST by FredDardick
A miraculous thing happened this week. After years of stonewalling Congress with claims that Lois Lerner’s emails were lost forever and could not be recovered, the IRS finally handed them over to congressional investigators for analysis.
Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.
The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.
The original claim by the IRS that Lerner’s emails were not backed up has always been a lie, and an obvious one at that. You would have to be particularly gullible to believe a government agency that demands citizens maintain personal financial records for years in the off chance of audit would not have failsafe systems in place should there be a catastrophic loss of data.
But that didn’t stop the IRS from lying to Congress over and over again when they insisted that Lerner’s emails could not be produced. The reason is simple: they thought they could get away with it.
Congress doesn’t have prosecutorial discretion. They can’t go after lawbreakers. If someone is brazen enough to lie while testifying before Congress, it is the Department of Justice’s responsibility to prosecute them for perjury. Unfortunately for the American people Eric Holder has made it clear that the DOJ would never, ever bring anyone to justice while covering for the lawless Obama regime.
The IRS would have gotten away with hiding Lerner’s emails from Congress if it weren’t for a particularly ornery Federal Judge, Emmet G. Sullivan. Sullivan, originally appointed by President Clinton, has made a name for himself as a non-partisan crusader against government corruption.
Judge Sullivan is the judge who held federal prosecutors in contempt, dismissed an unjust indictment against a United States Senator, and publicly excoriated the Department of Justice. He also had the moral conviction, courage and gumption to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Justice Department and the individual prosecutors.
Since his appointment to the Judicial Watch vs. IRS case Sullivan has become Holder’s worst nightmare. Sullivan didn’t buy the government’s story on Lerner’s missing emails. Rather than rely on the IRS’s misleading testimony to Congress, he insisted that IRS officials and technology specialists explain under oath why Lerner’s emails were not recoverable, statements that if found in error would lead to their prosecution.
Faced with the very real possibility of going to jail for lying to a federal judge, the IRS trail of lies abruptly ended. Next thing you know the IRS was admitting that Lerner’s email backups existed and that their technology experts would comb the tapes to provide the appropriate copies to Congress.
It is pathetic that a government agency can feel comfortable with lying to Congress and shows how far the Obama administration has fallen under the President’s leadership. While the IRS may eventually be held accountable for targeting innocent Americans, Holder and other lawbreakers in the DOJ will continue to roam free, a travesty of justice if there ever was one.
Massaged and cleaned thoroughly to be sure
Check them for alteration.
There would be telltale leftovers from any such monkeyshines.
This and Fast & Furious is all they need to impeach.
Can these evil scum bags be prosecuted if the next president is a Republican, even if he is a RINO? Ass hat Holder will never do the right thing.
I think Fast & Furious and IRS are going to provide the majority of the criminality and Obstruction of Justice component of any potential Impeachment.
Benghazi is the scandal that destroys Obama’s public opinion and approval so badly that the Democrats have no choice but to remove him from office to save their political hides and to prevent the total destruction of the Democrat party for a generation
What is going on with Ferguson and Amnesty is Obama’s desperate attempt to create enough chaos and bloodshed to distract from the finally emerging evidence of Obama Scandals and Holders obstriction of justice
When will they go to prison for lying to Congress as Scooter Libby did during the Valerie Plae hoax?
Obama will just pardon everybody in his administration and that will be that. I’m sure that was the promise to Lerner for lying and covering Obama’s ass for so long.
Tell be again, what did baseball’s Mark McGuire get in trouble for?
Oldplayer
A very good start!
Koskinen said they had “moved heaven and earth” to get the emails, but could not.
I guess they were stored in hell.
Actually, no. Unless you had access to the backups, there are no possible signs of tampering.
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True.
I beg to differ,this is what’s known as the perfect crime
Thank God for a Judge with Integrity!! Hats off to you Judge Sullivan!!!
That Smug IRS head needs to immediately found in contempt of congress, and charged with lying under oath.
File dates and metadata?
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