Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says

nytimes.com ^ | 05/17/2013 | JONATHAN WEISMAN

[Uncle Miltie]

No relation. I looked it up.

[RedMDer]

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[cookcounty]

If Obama didn’t know, he has a staff of really stupid people.

[piasa]

Wilmer Cutler Pickering and Hale... aren’t they the guys responsible for catch and release at gitmo or am I thinking of someone else?

[piasa]

"Judge Robertson’s conscience also seemed to go AWOL when it came to the case of Archie Schaffer, an executive with Tyson Chicken - the company that had showered Mr. Clinton with campaign contributions and helped steer Mrs. Clinton to her commodities market killing.

Recently, Judge Robertson has acquired membership to the Council for Court Excellence Executive Committee where we find some of his old pals from Wilmer Cutler Pickering. Robertson was with Wilmer Cutler Pickering before Clinton appointed him.

Wilmer Cutler Pickering, now goes by the name of WilmerHale. The Law Firm is involved in everything and with everyone from Banks, VC’s, the SEC, Pharm, etc. "

Wilmer Cutler Pickering was also involved in the defense of "Cold Cash" Jefferson in Louisiana.

[piasa]

From frontpage magazine : "Now it’s a torrent, and major U.S. firms including Clifford Chance; Dorsey & Whitney; Allen & Overy; Covington & Burling; and Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr – the last of which also does business with companies involved in the U.S. defense, national security, and government contracts sectors – have teamed up with Michael Ratner and CCR to provide legal services to terrorists and terrorist suspects. (Does the firm know Ratner’s background? If so, does the government know about its connection to Ratner?) Today, teams of lawyers fly to Guantanamo Bay to help people who, if given the chance, would kill all of them and make the Koran their only basis of law. "

The firm then that's responsible for the release of the guys who led the attack on Benghazi, Qumu & ___?...

[TexasCajun]

FYI - Your post gets a shout-out at NewsBusters.

NYT's Peters 'Cleans Up' Jonathan Weisman's Original Report on Friday's IRS Scandal Hearing

Did Team Obama reach out and touch the NYTimes or as Rush says, Liberals protect & promote each other instinctively.

[Weirdad]

Disgusting how the NYT and many similar “news organizations” CHANGE stories and flush the old one completely. DISHONESTY and FALSEHOOD.

Since consumers of the NYT’s public accommodation rely on articles consumed as reference sources, if the NYT had integrity they would take a “Wiki” type approach and publicly archive all the prior published versions.

But NO, they don’t, and therefore it falls to private individuals to keep a copy to hold them accountable, but then the copy can scarcely be shared due to fair use limitations. FR is now only allowed to excerpt this type of this at best.

Does anyone know this? —> If you have a paid version of the NYT, are you able to access all previously published versions of articles? If you pay an extra fee are they available? Or are they really “down the memory hole” for official purposes? (I bet it is completely in the memory hole.)

I would propose that copyright law be updated so that when “public accommodations” like the NYT publish items for public consumption, that those items must remain reasonably accessible in order for full copyright to be maintained. If they do not want to archive and maintain access to things they already foisted on the public, that’s fine; but since they put it out there already and then pulled it, they should lose full copyright protection, such that it becomes “fair use” for others to publish the entire original article or web page for the purposes of education and discussion.

Maybe that’s too invasive to freedom to attempt to make any type of law about that...

...well, we could try shaming news organizations to stick to a new set of ethics that includes either providing archival access to publications or else voluntarily expanding fair use permissions on the copyright...

...nah, they have no shame, so that would not work either with these minions of the violent utopian elitists...