Posted on 06/17/2014 5:46:01 AM PDT by don-o
WASHINGTON The Internal Revenue Service commissioner will testify before two House committees next week about the agencys disclosure that it lost thousands of emails sought by investigators looking into accusations of politically motivated misconduct by the agency, the committees said Monday.
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Mr. Koskinen is scheduled to appear before Mr. Issas committee on Monday night and, voluntarily, before the Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. The Ways and Means chairman, Representative Dave Camp, Republican of Michigan, wrote a letter to President Obama on Monday asking for all communications between Lois Lerner and any persons with the executive office of the president for the period between
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Emails pertinent to IRS business have to be hard copied prior to electronic deletion. That is the law. IRS employees not following that law and involved with unjustied scrutiny of conservative organizations are in severe jeopardy. There should be one or two that will tell the truth to stay out of jail. But maybe not. Obama followers are crazy to begin with.
I have seen that regulation. However, since political activity is not IRS business, they can take a pass on complying for those emails.
That was a joke, right?
You will hear that and worse from the IRS in the days to come.
“Emails pertinent to IRS business have to be hard copied
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I have seen that regulation. However, since political activity is not IRS business, they can take a pass on complying for those emails.”
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They are talking here about printing out certain emails and maintaining a SEPARATE “system of record” for those printed hard-copies.
That is above and beyond (and additional) to the records maintained within the email systems that the IRS employs.
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