Posted on 04/17/2014 4:37:40 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Key members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed outrage at revelations made in newly released emails showing ex-IRS official Lois Lerner coordinating with the Department of Justice on prosecuting nonprofit groups.
One committee member said the emails prove why the IRS is scared to give up the rest of Lois Lerners emails. IRS commissioner John Koskinen was recently threatened with contempt for stonewalling the committees investigation. Koskinen claimed in a hearing that it could take years to provide the documents requested by Oversight.
The release of new documents underscores the political nature of IRS Tea Party targeting and the extent to which supposed apolitical officials took direction from elected Democrats, Oversight chairman Rep. Darrell Issa said in a statement. These e-mails are part of an overwhelming body of evidence that political pressure from prominent Democrats led to the targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.
Now I see why the IRS is scared to give up the rest of Lois Lerners emails, said Oversight Economic Growth subcommittee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
And not her private email messages if conveying government information that should have been communicated via the government-appointed email system.
....flushed into prison, along with ANY manager, supervisor, etc., who participated in the illegal act. Additionally, any IRS employee currently indicted for tax evasion, fraud, delinquent, etc., should be immediately terminated and prosecuted.
Private e-mails, yes. Emails from her office, or as part of her public job? No.
Add in also that the inquiries were about applications that had *already* been segregated by politics.
Some of the government e-mail solutions are custom written...the Clinton White House email system was notoriously so. As such, they have archiving functions that don’t allow unarchiving in a competent manner. I suspect that it is at least partially on purpose...or at least opportunisticly unfixed.
Does she have a EPA “Richard Windsor” type alias?
Thanks for the link Mike. I had not seen that.
As much as I hate Lerner, I also do not want the Constitution violated in going after her.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. - 4th Amendment.
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I have to disagree with you ,,, she is MY EMPLOYEE and she is using MY COMPUTERS ,, those are MY E:MAILS ... we don’t need no stinking warrant ,, my agent in congress who is charged with oversight has all the authority needed to seize the files.
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