Posted on 10/08/2014 5:27:29 PM PDT by lowbridge
It appears the Environmental Protection Agency has the same IT people as the Internal Revenue Service. Agency officials are now telling a federal court they lost text messages sent from top officials’ phones.
Justice Department lawyers said they will soon be telling a federal judge the EPA misplaced text messages sent to and from the phone belonging to agency chief Gina McCarthy and former chief Lisa Jackson.
“Defendant has decided to formally notify the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) about the potential loss of federal records relating to text messages,” DOJ lawyers admitted.
The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank, has been pursuing EPA text messages since last year, after McCarthy was confirmed by the Senate to head up the EPA. CEI filed a case in 2013 to prevent the EPA from destroying agency text messages, a practice the think tank says it discovered through other government records requests.
“Here we see EPA agreeing to the court to ‘do an IRS,’” CEI senior fellow Chris Horner told The Washington Times. Horner’s past transparency work has revealed numerous attempts by EPA officials to avoid public scrutiny by using private email accounts and stonewalling government records requests.
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Do I get off free if I “lose” my W-2 each year???
Ping.
Losing emails and other incriminating evidence is SOP in 0bama’s criminal administration.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
If Lisa Jackson was known to have been using a false email account, the why shouldn’t we assume she also used a government provided burner phone.
They do it because the Republicans let them get away with it.
“The Lost Administration”....
Shouldn’t these be recoverable from Verizon or whatever carrier they are using?
The police can do this via a court order on a suspect, why can’t Congress do the same?
Absolutely should, lock them up.
Accountability? Are you serious?
Killary got away with it.
Lerner got away with it
Holder got away with it.
Why not the EPA?
BTTT
The Obama Administration worked hard to live up to its promise to be the most transparent administration in history. / sarcasm
Might as well run with what works.
Why are not all these docs impounded before this happens. there is a lot of foot dragging going on ..that’s why
It is obvious that they are lying. They only other alternative is that they are trememdously stupid.
Easy way to deal with it is to take away all computers out of the hands of public officials and give them typewriters. That will free up a lot of time they waste surfing porn on the web.
Absolutely no cell phones in a government office. Only landlines with an answering machine. Record everything going in and out, through an independent source.
If they want to admit to gross incompetence, then they should be treated as the children they are.
EXACTLY. This nation is run by the mob.
It’s weird how the criminals in the Obama administration seem to be the only people on the planet who are constantly “losing” their emails. Hmmmmm.
“Yes MR. IRS Man I made 9 zillion dollars off the books but seemed to have lost the the electronic records for it and never had paper records for it. “
“I guess that means I do not have to pay taxes on the 9 zillion dollars, MR IRS Man?”
“MR IRS Man, why is that big cop with a big gun putting me in handcuffs?”
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