[Mr Ramsbotham]

Until someone is held accountable, this will remain standard operating procedure. I reckon it will carry on, oh, about until the next Republican administration.

[Liz]

Internal Revenue Service emails from employees under investigation by Congress have been deleted. The Obama administration's best guess is that there was just an unfortunate coincidence of timing with an obligatory reference to "partisan witch hunts."

Campaign Contributions Ensnares Democrat candidates in IRS’s Missing Emails Scandal
Colorado Observer. ^ | June 19, 2014 | Audrey Hudson / FR Posted 6/21 by george76

...... missing among the IRS’s internal emails are communications with Democrat candidates Sen. Mark Udall, Mark Begich, Mary Landrieu, Al Franken, and a dozen other Democrats who received campaign contributions from the federal agency’s union.

Democratic senate candidates who took campaign donations from the IRS union include Sen Mary Landrieu of Louisiana who received $25,500, Sen Al Franken of Minnesota with $5,000, and Mark Begich of Alaska.

(Excerpt) Read more at thecoloradoobserver.com

[MaggiesPitchfork]

To blame all of it on Democrats is a bit shallow. The IRS has been terrorizing peasants for decades. This is the government’s bill collection agency, therefore Republicans have no real interest in getting rid of these thugs in any kind of serious way. This is a political opportunity for the DC Republicans right now, nothing more. Lois Lerner is in contempt - where’s that going, exactly? Nowhere.