Posted on 03/09/2014 8:16:51 AM PDT by chessplayer
On Wednesday, we found out the Big Reveal on whether or not Lois Lerner would be emptying the bag for Darrell Issa. Nope. So many perfectly good conspiracy theories flushed down the tubes after I went through two pots of coffee dreaming them up. It looked like a big, fat nothingburger and another dead end. But now, seemingly out of nowhere, the IRS seems to have had a change of heart.
The powerful House Ways and Means Committee will get everything from disgraced former IRS official Lois Lerner’s email account since a few weeks before Barack Obama became president.
And Republican committee members are hoping they’ll find a smoking gun tying the Obama administration to the years-long scheme to play political favorites with nonprofit groups’ tax-exemption applications.
After eight months of back-and-forth stonewalling, the IRS has agreed to turn over the complete contents of Lerner’s email account, along with other documents that two congressional committees have been demanding.
Well… that’s just great, I suppose. But there’s a skeptical corner of my dark little heart which immediately begins raising some red flags. I suppose it’s something along the lines of what one unnamed staffer told the Daily Mail.
‘If there’s not a Holy Grail email in this round of documents,’ a senior staffer to a Ways and Means committee member told MailOnline, ‘then we’re not going to find it.’
‘Whether that’s because Lerner covered her tracks or because the IRS is shredding documents, we’re probably never going to know.’
They’ve had eight months to sit on all of this data and come up with a battle plan, circle the wagons and get ready for this. In the bad old days, one assumes they would just have a vodka soaked party around the burn barrel and any damning documents could literally go up in smoke. But is it really that much harder in the digital era? I ask this because I honestly don’t know.
Or else there is another “secret” non-gooberment email account.
Do tell...I was being facetious. Missed that prior.
From here,
"IRS caves on Lois Lerner documents, will provide Congress with ALL of her emails since tea party targeting scheme began"
(first sentence of the article, emphasis mine):
The powerful House Ways and Means Committee will get everything from disgraced former IRS official Lois Lerner's email account since a few weeks before Barack Obama became president.So Issa's out to prove he can't play the game even in an election year. "Account" is singular. That denotes only the official email account, best I can interpret.
Great. /s
Remember Emailgate and Mrs Crabtree and Northrup Grumman?
The only real way to know is to look at the hard drives that Lerner used. That is not going to happen.
:-) I couldn't even say it with a straight face online.
That'll happen when purple unicorns poop skittles and fart rainbows.
My take:
Giving a written order or directive to scrutinize conservative groups or groups with conservative-sounding names was most likely avoided. Rather, the directive was likely a verbal one, in a room with doors closed and recording devices absent.
Therefore, emails would most likely not contain any kind of “smoking gun” evidence of wrongding.
Somehow I think the word "complete" has an entirely different meaning here....
As in only what we want you to see...
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