I will say this...if this had been in the Army or Air Force...the director in charge of the IT division would have been escorted out of the building and fired, and the contractors involved in support...laid off that day and a whole new team brought in within days. I can’t imagine any IT professional cooperating to this mess....to the degree that your reputation in life is permanently screwed up if a new employer finds out you were working for the IRS.
They can contradict themselves twenty times before breakfast and it never bothers them. Nor are they ever held accountable for it.
I keep hoping that will change, but I don’t know - the press is simply not interested.
Now we have two live threads
Sander Levin has no interest in finding facts
but insists he KNOWS what is going on.
[Was he in on this with Cummings?]
Kioskinen claims they examined the hard drives for months,
and that they were shared amongst many people with
“custodians”. He did not want to notify Congress
because they are not “rationale”, unlike his
Evidence-destroying IRS.
Kioskinen then blames the Committee for the loss
by giving an irrational segue to the Flacks episode.
Mr. Johnson notes there is “targeting of Americans
for their beliefs”. Exactly.
Placemark
Kioskinen purports the IRS destroys the Evidence
to save .... $200,000.
Got that? The purpose was to destroy Evidence.
He struck me as a real weasel at the last hearing .... the previous IRS Commissioner was a lying weasel as well. Then I think of other ‘heads of agencies’ ..... Obama has picked a bunch of liars, crooks and corruptocrats, all good reflections of their boss. The IRS has been ‘weaponized’ and Congress needs to do something dramatic to stop it and I know they won’t.
McDermott is such as asshat!!!
Is it just me, or does this guy seem to give credence to the Lizard People conspiracists?
WOW!
Rep. Kevin Brady has caught John Koskinen
in a great lie and obstruction of justice.
Koskinen then LIES and says he told them
information which he did not.
Rep. Brady is doing great.
Cummings apologizes that the LIES have been exposed.
[Lucky for HIM the “hard drives” are missing]
Other email from the time period in question exists, it must have been restored from backup to the replacement disk.
Why were these emails not restored for Lerner?
Why were these emails not restored for these other particular persons?
I hate to say it but it's all dog and pony. If Washington DC had a shred of decency, when Lerner issued her bizarre admission that conservative groups had been targeted by rogue employees, the IRS should have gone on lock down and independent law enforcement should have combed through the emails to get to the root of the problem. As long as DC continues to investigate itself and have the opportunity to 'turn over' specific things that Congress asks for, this situation will repeat itself.
Rod Serling Voice; Imagine a world where the police contact John Gotti and ask him to send them the guns used to kill victims and a list of names of the hit men he used to carry out the murders.
No mention of the e-mail SERVERS and their RAID drives?
No mention of NSA backup?
did Lois connect peer to peer through her telephone modem to communicate through e-mail with the white house?
These democrats are truly pathetic.
They should be ashamed at themselves.
It’s scary that people with ZERO morals or character are in charge of our lives....
The NSA’s James R. Clapper looked right into the camera and lied about surveillance of American citizens.
Why? For the same reason an unblinking Bill Clinton lied about “sex with ... that woman”:
Because he thought he could.
He didn’t know he would be tripped-up by the truth.
IRS? Same-same.
We’re just waiting for the other shoe to fall, then every falsehood Obama created will begin to unravel.
I love the excuse that there was is no evidence of Lois sabotaging her hard drive because she “tried as hard as she could” to recover, in anyway possible the data on her blown hard drive. So there would be absolutely no reason for her to ever intentionally destroy her data.
Congress should subpoena Lois’s phone records the 36 hours leading up to this hard drive “crash”.