Posted on 06/21/2014 2:21:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it can't provide emails sent between 2009 and 2011 that were requested by congressional investigators because of hard drive crashes.
The agency said that emails stored on dead drives were lost forever because its email backup tapes were recycled every six months, and employees were responsible for keeping their own long-term archives.
The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005, according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for "automatic data processing services." Sonasoft's motto is "email archiving done right," and the company lists the IRS as a customer.
In 2009, Sonasoft even sent out a Tweet advertising its work for the IRS...
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Good catch.
****prior to joining the IRS, Lerner’s tenure as head of the Enforcement Office at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) was marked by what appears to be politically motivated harassment of conservative groups.****
So, Congress does need to subpoena the FEC records!!!!!
Before this is over there will be a lot of lost emails and computer crashes from the WH to the IRS to the DOJ.
$million to get someone to cough up a really damming e-mail. Crowd sourced funds. Obozo gone. Priceless!
“The senate thou with Reid in charge is still a player in the govt mafia control.”
I wrote Reid’s only biography. If you only knew how incredibly corrupt he is. I am doing an update now, tantalizingly close to tying up some loose ends.
LaToya Jackson, of all people, might hold the key.
I hope that everything is done that can be and its not swept under the rug!
Like so much has been lately!
Absolutely...
She had to be sure she was added to the list of Presidential pardons coming up at the end of this administration...
Busted!
This needs to get to Issa & he needs to subpoena Sonasoft’s archive of IRS email!
Exactly. Unless they knew in advance that they needed to cover their tracks, so they purposely set the limits low and was ok with it.
Issa’s contact page does not accept contact from persons outside his district.
http://issa.house.gov/contact/contact-me
Bump
That’s kind of what I was thinking. Produce some fake emails that are damning and say to the perps unless you can prove otherwise we are proceeding with these as evidence.
Koskinen was not forthcoming about this.
“I don’t think an apology is owed” says Koskinen. You’re right, you owe jail time Koskinen.
How about this— we stop trying to turn political whores into statesmen. If you think our current congressional leaders will ever develop spines then you’re delusional. Until such time as the Republican Party, beyond Ted Cruz, proves it’s capable of leading then NOTHING will happen until the armed citizenry decides it’s had enough....
The great part about a conspiracy rap is the time involved. The conspirators are all involved in a “continuing offense” until they affirmatively leave the conspiracy by “making a clean breast to the authorities or communicating his or her disassociation to the other conspirators.” Subpoenas all around.
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Statute of Limitations for Conspiracy
Conspiracy is a continuing offense. For statutes such as 18 U.S.C. § 371, which require an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, the statute of limitations begins to run on the date of the last overt act. See Fiswick v. United States, 329 U.S. 211 (1946); United States v. Butler, 792 F.2d 1528 (11th Cir. 1986). For conspiracy statutes which do not require proof of an overt act, such as RICO (18 U.S.C. § 1961) or 21 U.S.C. § 846, the government must allege and prove that the conspiracy continued into the limitations period. The crucial question in this regard is the scope of the conspiratorial agreement, and the conspiracy is deemed to continue until its purpose has been achieved or abandoned. See United States v. Northern Imp. Co., 814 F.2d 540 (8th Cir. 1987); United States v. Coia, 719 F.2d 1120 (11th Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 973 (1984).
An individual’s “withdrawal” from a conspiracy starts the statute of limitations running as to that individual. “Withdrawal” from a conspiracy for this purpose means that the conspirator must take affirmative action by making a clean breast to the authorities or communicating his or her disassociation to the other conspirators. See United States v. Gonzalez, 797 F.2d 915 (10th Cir. 1986).
Start at the bottom and work your way up, build charges and take your time. There’s no rush with conspiracy. It continues until someone comes clean individually and that means singing like a songbird.
That’s why we need the Senate and sixty! Then we win in 2016 and end the IRS forever.
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