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Posted on 07/28/2015 1:48:57 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
The IRS used a “wholly separate” instant messaging system that automatically deleted office communications, according to documentation released by the House Oversight Committee on Monday. The system appears to have been purposefully used by agency officials responsible for the targeting of conservative non-profits, in order to evade public scrutiny.
The system, known as “Office Communication Server” or OCS was used by IRS officials, including many in the Exempt Organizations (EO) Unit, which was headed by Lois Lerner.
As the Oversight Committee report states, the instant messaging system did not archive any communications, so it is not possible to know what employees of the EO unit discussed on it.
However, in an email uncovered by the Committee Lerner warns her colleagues about evading Congressional oversight:
“I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails – so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails.”
Lerner then asks whether OCS is automatically archived. When informed it was not, Lerner responded “Perfect.”
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
also comes in handy for office sexting
When our Republican controlled Congress charges Lois Lerner, wake me up.
Will anyone go to jail or even lose their job? Nah.
but the REAL SCANDAL is that they’re underfunded. /s
I really wonder if this country would be flamingly stupid enough to elect zero again like he thinks.
The IRS acts more like a criminal enterprise each day.
RICO criminal conspiracy! Hang ‘em high!!
Nixon was drummed out of office for less.
She needs to be imprisoned for life.
And have her American citizenship revoked.
So they deliberately broke the law. When do they go to jail?
For a government agency, the absence of information should be treated for legal purposes as if it were as damning as the information could possibly have been. Only then will there be no incentive to delete or hide them. It’s illegal for we peasants to destroy or hide evidence. How much more so should it be for those who depend on a portion of the wealth we create to provide their living?
But when it’s a Republican like Scooter Libby, you can do time for having slightly differing recollections on two different occasions years apart, even though only one of the occasions was sworn testimony, and thus might have been the correct one.
The only shocking/disappointing part of this story is that no one will be shocked or disappointed. We expect Obama’s Minions to be completely corrupt.
My, what a bunch of Nazis we have in the Democrat Party.
The whole federal bureaucracy is a communist criminal enterprise.
I was told that the Microsoft communicator on a corporate server can be traced.
If the Feds allow Yahoo or any other IM on their servers, we are in bigger trouble than we realize.
I am not defending the IRS but phone calls are not recorded either. OCS is like a phone call.
Lois Lerner—Barry’s “Deflator”.
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