Posted on 08/07/2014 5:36:15 PM PDT by Rockitz
The revelation that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilynn Tavenner did not retain her e-mails means that more than 20 witness in the Obama administration to lose or delete e-mails without notifying Congress, according to the top House investigator.
“The Obama administration has lost or destroyed e-mails for more than 20 witnesses, and in each case, the loss wasn’t disclosed to the National Archives or Congress for months or years, in violation of federal law,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) said of Tavenner’s lost e-mails.
“It defies logic that so many senior Administration officials were found to have ignored federal recordkeeping requirements only after Congress asked to see their e-mails,” he continued. “Just this week, my staff followed up with HHS, who has failed to comply with a subpoena from ten months ago. Even at that point, the administration did not inform us that there was a problem with Ms. Tavenner’s e-mail history. Yet again, we discover that this administration will not be forthright with the American people unless cornered.”
From February of 2010 to November of 2013 — one month after the launch of the HealthCare.gov website, as the Daily Caller’s Patrick Howley noted — Tavenner didn’t maintain copies of her e-mails as required.
“During her entire tenure at CMS, Ms. Tavenner’s CMS e-mail address, which is accessible to both colleagues and the public, has been subject to write-in campaigns involving thousands of e-mails from the public,” CMS wrote to the National Archives and Records Administration, per Howley.
“Therefore, she receives an extremely high volume of e-mails that she manages daily. To keep an orderly e-mail box and to stay within the agency’s e-mail system capacity limits, the administrator generally copied or forwarded e-mails to immediate staff for retention and retrieval, and did not maintain her own copies,” CMS said.
Issa subpoenaed the missing e-mails ten months ago. “The evidence is mounting that the website did not go through proper testing, including critical security testing, and that the Administration ignored repeated warnings from contractors about ongoing problems,” he said at the time. “The American people deserve to know why the administration spent significant taxpayer money on a product that is entirely dysfunctional and puts their personal information at risk.”
I dream every night of hundreds of Obama administration kiddies perp walking off to a federal graybar hotel in their bright orange prisoner suits. I fall asleep smiling.:)
And please, no one tell me this guy is using "strategy", etc.. he's a freaking blowhard with no nuts.
Issa’s not babbling, he’s the only person keeping after it.
But he individually can’t do a darn thing about this. Have you written to your Congressman expressing support? Have you sent a few bucks his way?
Anyone notice if these happen to be the only people with “accidentally” lost emails? If it was random loss, you’d expect a good spread of many others suffering the same fate. But if it is just these key co-conspirators, or unfortunate victims of purely random chance. .. ;-\
No need to prosecute, they should go directly to jail. Period, as Obama and my mother say. We need names.
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Issa needs to put up or shut up. I love the fact he is a bulldog going exposing this stuff but he needs to get some teeth into it.
With an uncooperative AG, he needs to pull some congressional weight and arrest these people using the congressional power to do so.
willfully destroying evidence and obstructing an investigation
either start making arrests or just stop
all these crimes have been committed over the last few years and noone even gets charged.
and the GOP thinks the base will bother going to the polls in the midterms. hilarious
Ok, Issa, when are we going to see some concrete results from this?
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