Lost the text messages. Who would have thought it?
Bet they could find my text to Great Aunt Gertie asking for her secret biscuit recipe.
We have had lawbreakers in high office before, but the level of flagrant lawlessness in these six terrible years is unmatched in our country’s history. Clinton and Nixon both broke laws for specific reasons of self interest, but it’s only under the druggie from Chicago that it’s so open and widespread. I miss the rule of law.
Couldn’t the Enterprise Inst. then ask the court to deem as admitted what it alleges were in the ‘lost’ text messages? Or demand depositions of the parties to admit or deny the general information that would have been contained in those messages? This losing of emails and txts sounds like mafia tactics, and unacceptable for the U.S. government.
Does gov’t use the same ‘guys’ between departments? (I know, what am *I* thinking...consolidation, cntrl mgmt and low cost; it NEVER even occurred as a brief thought)
Oh, well. Another dog and pony show by Issa and the gang; nobody help accountable, nobody fired let alone jailed....
Of course, that won't happen because the EPA and the courts are parts of the same entity.
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
In a real court, failure to produced subpoenaed documents would result in a default judgement against the non-producer of the subpoenaed documents.
Hey, it worked for the IRS!
The criminals in the EPA would be foolish to comply with the rule of law if there are no actual consequences for defiance and obfuscation.
Of course. That is S.O.P.
How does anyone lose text messages?
The CARRIER has them!
Another federal agency that’s lying to us.
But if the IRS audits you and you claim to have lost some documentation, its sayonara for you charlie. It is past time to reinstate that most sacred principle that the law is king and the king/government is under the law.
“Liz Purchia said the agency maintains that the text messages neither had to be preserved nor were subject to disclosure. Text messages can legally be deleted, she said”.
Uhmmmm, no they can’t.
Actually, no I have no doubt as to why records are being “distroyed” “lost” “misplaced” etc.
The Big Zero's administration is corrupt to its core.
I bet the NSA has them.
Of course they did. Happens all the time to multiple machines in one company on one subject of interest to the courts. Perfectly understandable. Move on, folks, nothing to see here.