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IRS seeks help destroying another 3,200 hard drives
Washington Times ^ | 7/23/14 | Jim McElhatton

Posted on 07/21/2014 7:08:44 PM PDT by Nachum

Days after IRS officials said in a sworn statement that former top agency employee Lois G. Lerner’s computer memory had been wiped clean, the agency put out word to contractors Monday that it needs help to destroy at least another 3,200 hard drives.

The Internal Revenue Service solicitation for “media destruction” services reflects an otherwise routine job to protect sensitive taxpayer information, but it was made while the agency’s record destruction practices remain under a sharp congressional spotlight.

Congressional investigators of the IRS targeting of conservative groups have been hampered by the unexplained destruction of emails and other records of Ms. Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division and a central figure in the scandal.

The loss of Ms. Lerner’s hard drive also raised broader questions about why the tax agency never reported the missing records to the National Archives and Records Administration, as required by the Federal Records Act.

(Excerpt) Read more at p.washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: destroying; drives; hard; irs
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1 posted on 07/21/2014 7:08:44 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


2 posted on 07/21/2014 7:10:06 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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IRS seeks help destroying another 3,200 hard drives

LOL, in yo' face, America.

3 posted on 07/21/2014 7:12:53 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Nachum

If this wasn’t so insanely obvious.


4 posted on 07/21/2014 7:15:47 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Nachum

Satire or tyranny or both?


5 posted on 07/21/2014 7:17:28 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Nachum

The crooks at the center of the scandal have now been memorialized in song.
Reason TV put together this spoof “What are the Chances?”

Video – 2:13 Minutes
Remy: What are the Chances? (An IRS Love Song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KohtsEmWY2w

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/crooks-at-center-of-irs-targeting-scandal-now-memorialized-in-song-video/


6 posted on 07/21/2014 7:19:20 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Nachum

Another one of those times where facts are stranger than fiction or facts resemble fiction.


7 posted on 07/21/2014 7:24:00 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Nachum

Expect the IRS to send out notices to several million conservatives, especially vocal ones, saying:

“We have NO RECORD of your filing tax returns for the past 15 years. Therefore, you are hereby summoned to appear at **:** am, on such & such a date at your local IRS office.

Please bring ALL your receipts and W-2 forms for the past 20 years, SS# & birth/marriage certificates (Original ONLY) for all dependents and $50,000 bail money (just in case we think you look guilty). If you don’t have the bail money, bring a sleeping bag, change of underwear, several bottles of water and a case of granola bars.

You WILL be staying for a LONG TIME.


8 posted on 07/21/2014 7:31:57 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "For those who have fought for it, Life bears a savor the protected will never know")
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To: Nachum

Have ball peen hammer, will travel.


9 posted on 07/21/2014 7:40:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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I was surprised that this wasn’t from the Onion.


10 posted on 07/21/2014 7:41:52 PM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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FairTax ping!

IRS just keeps on pushing the envelope!


11 posted on 07/21/2014 7:42:59 PM PDT by Taxman
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To: BwanaNdege

There are people at the IRS who are beginning to understand they’re NOT above the law...


12 posted on 07/21/2014 7:43:48 PM PDT by GOPJ (To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize-Voltaire)
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To: BwanaNdege

I think they would need to make a house call.


13 posted on 07/21/2014 7:48:09 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Hieronymus

I guess the times are a changing ... the known order is rapidly fading ... thereby chaos.


14 posted on 07/21/2014 7:50:39 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Nachum

That could explain the ammunition stockpile...


15 posted on 07/21/2014 7:55:36 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: no-to-illegals

Criminals.


16 posted on 07/21/2014 7:56:09 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hal ogen

yep ... as the rooster crows. Morning has arrived with storm clouds gathering on the horizon.


17 posted on 07/21/2014 7:57:49 PM PDT by no-to-illegals (Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
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To: Nachum

Crazy stuff.


18 posted on 07/21/2014 9:04:11 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Resist in place.)
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To: Nachum

Bump


19 posted on 07/21/2014 10:18:43 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: Nachum
The Internal Revenue Service solicitation for “media destruction” services reflects an otherwise routine job to protect sensitive taxpayer information

Yeah, that's the ticket, ROTFLMAO!

20 posted on 07/21/2014 10:29:00 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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