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.
One in ten to the 42’nd power.
You’d have better odds picking out a particular proton in the universe.
Never mind the watchdogs in the news media, is there a republican with access to a microphone who might pass your question along?
I guess not.
I bet we will find that the IT person responsible for backing this data up and recovering it when needed, has unfortunately died at some point in the last several months. The new IT person will find that there was negligence on the part of the dead person which prevents recovery of the email.
There is also an element of
“Yeah, stick it to the conservatives!”
Shocking. I’m sure Der Schwartzenfuhrer will get right on this after his next round of golf.
Yeah, 18 and a half minutes of tape versus two years worth of more than likely incriminating emails, yeah.
Crickets from the press.
If the IRS IT people assert that they cannot recover these emails then they should all be fired as incompetent.
If the emails are subsequently recovered then the IT people who made this assertion should be prosecuted to the maximum.
Start squeezing them - and hard.
“The buck stops here!” - Harry S Truman
“Stuff happens. Move on. It’s old news. It’s Bush’s fault.” - Barry H. Obama
Actually, I think that would be Das Schwartzefuehrer, but whatever!
“Do these people really think that we are so stupid as to believe this BS?”
They don’t care what you believe. They only care that they can provide a story and talking points. They know that their side doesn’t care about the truth. Their side only cares about what they see as ‘victory’.
Of course. And what will Congress do besides nothing?
Bump
From what I read in one of the articles, the IRS IT may have destroyed or trashed the hard drive years ago. Deliberate destruction of evidence. Could it be that was the plan all along? Not that the Holder FBI will lift a finger to run this to ground.
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