The backups....
Posted on 08/01/2015 9:57:12 AM PDT by lowbridge
Backup tapes containing as many as 24,000 Lois Lerner emails were destroyed by an IRS entity officially known as the “Media Management Midnight Unit” located in Martinsburg, West Virginia, according to documentation released this week by the House Oversight Committee. In all, 422 backup tapes holding the emails were magnetically “degaussed” despite an agency-wide preservation order and congressional subpoena. Degaussing is a process whereby powerful magnets are used to erase data on a storage tape.
The preservation order came from IRS Chief Technology Officer Terence Millholland in response to Congressional subpoenas over Lois Lerner’s emails. However, the agency completely failed to ensure the order was followed or understood. According to the House Oversight report:
“The IRS failed to ensure compliance with the preservation order at each turn. The IRS failed to confirm compliance with the preservation order in February 2014, upon learning of the gap in emails; failed to ensure the Media Management Midnight Unit, the team that destroyed the backup tapes, properly understood the preservation order; and failed to make certain that individuals who ordered the destruction of the specific media, in this instance the backup tapes, properly understood the preservation order.”
(Excerpt) Read more at atr.org ...
Isn’t deliberate destruction of evidence, especially at the federal level, a hanging offense???
Where is the justice??? In an impotent Congressional “investigation” that goes nowhere???
Really? Mistakes were made? We’ll get to the bottom of this to make sure it never, ever happens again I’m sure....
A complete accudent eh? I’m guessing we’ll find out about a similar acident on Hillary’s server too eh?
We’ll need to build a whole new prison to house these creeps.
We can be assured that our top cop and DOJ will be on top of it! [SARC]
AG Trey Gowdy will get to the bottom of this, but it’s going to take defeating the GOPe to get it done.
Lois Lerner emails were destroyed by an IRS entity officially known as the “Media Management Midnight Unit”.
Sounds like a Klandestine Brown shirt middle management gang name if I ever heard one....
Richard Nixon is looking more ethical every day on relative terms.
The backups....
In 1972, they were called The Plumbers.
This is how dictators get away with it.
No one person can run a dictatorial organization.
They have to convince others to do the criminal work.
Some they buy off.
Some they threaten.
Some they convince by claiming they are fighting the enemy.
Some they convince by appealing to tradition.
But, it’s always the dictator and his immediate cronies who get the big benefits.
The good old Democrat Party. Supporting a dictator.
[ “Media Management Midnight Unit”.
In 1972, they were called The Plumbers. ]
In 1974 people resigned for such things...
In 2015 since it is part of the beer-o-crapcy it is seen a vital government function that can’t ever be shut down.... except on weekends and government holidays.
And no one will be punished ... the lesson is that the system has collapsed, rule of law is obsolete, and there is no longer any reason whatsoever to follow the law.
Do the members of the “Midnight Unit” have names?
Some of the names of the Nixon White House Plumbers became household words.
This is how long standing dictatorships handle things. Send out the most obvious BS, the more obvious insulting to intelligence the better. Once the populace allows it to stand once or a couple times, cognitive dissonance keeps them from ever challenging it again - else they admit to being weak willed dupes.
Prison time.. one would think.. My God.. how much more obvious what is going on? Destruction of gubamint property and correspsondence is a crime.. or it used to be..
So why aren’t Republicans bringing impeachment against Koskinen?
It’s a political slam dunk.
A lot of folks dislike/hate the IRS.
Make Democrats go on the record to defend him.
Have the hearings during the 2016 campaign.
Bingo. Time to Alinsky the Unit.
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