ZeroHedge ^ | 6/14/2014 | Tyler Durden
Posted on 6/14/2014, 10:21:19 AM by mojito
...[M]oments ago, representative Steve Stockman (R-Texas) announced he would request that the National Security Agency help in the hunt for missing emails to and from the IRS’s Lois Lerner, and recover two years worth of "lost" emails.
[....] And now the NSA is caught between a rock and a hard place: because if it refuses an official congressional demand, it shows once again that the spy agency is entirely separated from any concept of checks and balances and accountability; if it complies, it confirms that all the NSA is, considering it can't even tap into a bunch of Al Qaeda phones and figure out what the jihadists' strategy is in Iraq, is just a massive data repository of all US electronic information, to be abused at will by corrupt, criminal government workers, some of whom will likely have to resort to the "dog ate my emails" excuse in the immediate future
From down thread today
Just a day or two ago there was an article about the NSA having refused a request by a litigant who wanted to use NSA captured data in a lawsuit to prove something. I wonder if that was setting the stage to refuse this request.