Posted on 05/31/2013 6:59:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Internal Revenue Service has told House GOP investigators they have identified 88 IRS employees who may have documents relevant to the congressional investigation into targeting of conservative groups, according to a congressional source familiar with the investigation.
The IRS asked these employees to preserve all the "responsive documents" on their computers, and it has been in the process of collecting it all to comply with congressional requests for information. The IRS missed its May 21st deadline to turn over documents to the House Ways and Means Committee.
The same source said the IRS argues it missed its deadline because of the scope of documents it is collecting.
The request for documents was a bipartisan one, but Republicans are privately preparing to seize on the fact that if nearly 90 IRS employees may have been somehow involved in this targeting, it is evidence that the controversy extends well beyond the mistakes by a few low level employees.
However, with no documents in hand, there is no way to know how many of the employees being asked to preserve documents were truly involved in the activity in question. The IRS, in a statement to CNN, said the large number reflects its effort to ensure they are as responsive as possible to the Congressional requests....
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
We want NAMES.
***...have identified 88 IRS employees who may have documents relevant to the congressional investigation...***
Can I assume this means maybe they have them, but then again maybe they don’t. Depends on how close those pesky Republicans get to finding something ‘relevant’ out.
It is looking like this went to the top of the IRS and to the top of the white house. They truly believe in punishing their enemies, just as they have publicly stated.
So much for the “rogue employees” meme.
It’s more like a rogue GOVERNMENT.
You don’t get names...You get more taxes...fines and fees.
Better get the 88 names now or all those docs will go down the wormhole just like the truckloads of docs that were gathered from Solyndra and other places raided by the FBI after they became an embarrassment to Obama.
The IRS is going to dump thousands of pages of meaningless correspondence on congress.
They should have treated IRS like the IRS and/or FBI treats businesses. Show up in the morning with a warrant. Seal the building, sieze all the computers and records. Don’t give IRS a chance to delete them.
The IRS is going to dump thousands of pages of meaningless correspondence on congress.
They should have treated IRS like the IRS and/or FBI treats businesses. Show up in the morning with a warrant. Seal the building, sieze all the computers and records. Don’t give IRS a chance to delete them.
Right. It is the old "if you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullsh**" ploy.
Having been through this sort of thing numerous times over the years I’d say nobody has a clue!
They better upgrade their families’ medical insurance.
Obama and Holder are not above killing them
like the other witnesses.
The IRS Culture of Corruption
Mark Steyn suggests we answer every IRS inquiry with “I have not done anything wrong or illegal and I will answer no questions about this issue.”
I am not earning $150k+ working for the IRS, but I sure as hell know I would start with officially questioning the people who actually typed the offensive criminal letters, and whoever requested that it be done.
Don't letters have the originator/typist notations at the bottom any more
If not, why not?
(silly question.)
Incidentally, I would simultaneously solicit the victims of the criminal IRS to submit as many different copies of correspondence from the IRS that they received.
I trust the victims a whole lot more than I trust the criminals at the IRS, who are probably prone to "accidentally" erase or otherwise "lose" correspondence.
I like that idea. Furthermore, if the library and the janitorial departments can have SWAT teams why can’t the House of Representatives? LOL (maybe not so much LOL)
Ping
Now I understand why they don’t seem to go after all those government employees and congresscritters that owe back taxes.
With at least 88 IRS employees involved in this illegal activity, they didn’t just invade the privacy of these organizations and people, THEY INVADED THE WHOLE COUNTRY, OPERATING JUST LIKE THE KGB WOULD.
Just change the letters from IRS to KGB and you’ve got it right.
Obama’s on a roll.
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