Posted on 06/17/2014 9:14:14 AM PDT by grundle
It’s not just Lois Lerner’s e-mails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can’t produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups, according to two Republicans investigating the scandal.
The IRS told Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp and subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany that computer crashes resulted in additional lost e-mails, including from Nikole Flax, the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal.
The revelation about Lerner’s e-mails rekindled the scandal and today’s news has further inflamed Republicans. Camp and Boustany are now demanding a special prosecutor to investigate “every angle” of the targeting. They expressed particular outrage that the agency has known since February that it would not be able to produce the e-mails requested by the committee yet did not apprise the committee of that fact, and they charged in a statement that the IRS is attempting to “cover up the fact that it convenient lost key documents in the investigation.”
If Lerner is the central figure in the scandal — Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa said Monday evening he believes she was the senior-most official involved — Flax may be an important auxiliary figure. E-mails produced in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the group Judicial Watch show Flax giving the green light to Lerner’s request to meet with Department of Justice officials to explore the possibility of criminally prosecuting nonprofit groups — at the suggestion of Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse — for engaging in political activity after declaring on their application for nonprofit status that they had no plans to do so.
E-mails uncovered by the committee last week showed that, in preparation for her meeting with the Department of Justice, Lerner and one of her advisers transmitted 1.1 million pages of data on nonprofit groups, including confidential taxpayer information, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, potentially in violation of federal law.
“Scrubbed” more emails as none are ever “lost”.
Perhaps if people started being arrested for this, such BS would cease.
Everyone involved in the scandal conveniently had a hard drive crash. LOL! This is nothing but a big F U from the White House.
And all the republican geldings wring their hands.
I’m sure the NSA can provide copies...................
So basically, everyone who is under investigation has suffered a computer crash that has wiped out all their e-mails.
Eggs Ackley ... the republicants will not do anything meaningful about it and the regime of little barry bastard boy knows that so they do as they damned well please in their rush to end America.
If it weren't electronic and they weren't Democrats, they'd have been in jail long ago. There are laws against obstruction of justice and evidence tampering. The problem is that the watchdog is working for the criminals.
Its getting difficult to even comment on the criminality of this adminstration. Just another day and another kick in the teeth.
Don’t want to make waves during an election year! We got this in the bag /s
Do these people really think that we are so stupid as to believe this BS?
And to think how hard the liberals came down on Nixon for 18 1/2 minutes of blank tape.
Math Contest:
What is one chance in a million raised to the 7th power?
Just a stupid question but didn’t her emails go to someone.
By doing nothing, the gop risks losing its base and dampening November turnout, as millions are disgusted with the inaction to obvious criminality. That in turn leads to ‘Rats keeping the sinate, and doing okay in the house, and then figuring they have an electoral mandate for even more criminality.
Do you realize how many thieves there must be in the government and news media to have this kind of stuff happen?
Issa says he thinks that Lerner is the most senior official involved I think he is wrong I think that would be OHB with out a doubt.......just my 2 cents
We all need to go back to sleep. Nothing to see here. Just move along. Lean back and relax, it really isn’t rape, just non-consensual sexual actvities, you’ll heal up in a day or two.
The criminals inhabiting Congress will do nothing. And, there will be a new crisis in a news cylce or so.
It is called swarming the defense. You can’t investigate everything and everything overwhelms the resources and the will to resist.
Obama Odingo will continue to bait, prod, provoke and marginalize normalcy until normalcy hides under the bed hoping the nightmare will end but no longer capable of ending it.
No, I honestly believe there's a major element of "we've found a story you can't disprove and there isn't anything you can do about it" in this. They're smirking about it, like the movie gangster who sneers, "ya got no proof!"
Yes, and too many of your fellow Americans ARE this stupid. Look at what they elected for leader!
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