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GOP fury after report claims IRS 'recycled' Lerner hard drive
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Posted on 06/19/2014 3:42:23 AM PDT by servo1969

The top Republican on one of the House committees investigating the IRS targeting scandal reacted furiously late Wednesday to a report that ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's hard drive had been recycled, making it likely that many emails sent to and from Lerner prior to the summer of 2011 will never be recovered.

The Politico report cited two anonymous sources, as well as Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who confirmed that the Senate Finance Committee had been told that the hard drive had been discarded.

"If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about 'losing' e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement. "Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don't just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: email; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; lerner; loislerner; obama; scandals; teaparty
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To: Nervous Tick
Surely someone within IRS has a conscience — or, failing that, bills to pay.

LOL. Remember, you're talking about the most evil and abusive agency of the feral government. Conscience? That's surgically removed once you've hired on.

101 posted on 06/19/2014 6:45:38 AM PDT by zeugma (It is time for us to start playing cowboys and muslims for real now.)
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To: servo1969

Why are they “furious”?

Do they seriously not understand the problem that confronts them?


102 posted on 06/19/2014 6:46:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: servo1969

If Ed Snowden has her emails, this administration is about to be SOOOOO SCROOOOOOOD


103 posted on 06/19/2014 6:47:28 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: RummyChick

>> Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz 17m #IRS can’t even keep track of employee emails,but will propose new rules to limit YOUR free speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/irs-to-propose-specific-limits-on-nonprofits-political-activities/2014/06/18/d362ecaa-f728-11e3-a606-946fd632f9f1_story.html … #AbolishTheIRS<<

Seriously? Well thank you, Sen.Cruz. Thank you for going on Twitter to get justice for the American people.


104 posted on 06/19/2014 6:50:35 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Travis McGee

Watergate was in fact trivial compared to anything Obama has done, and no one was killed, no one’s Constitutional rights taken violated.


105 posted on 06/19/2014 6:52:09 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Wyatt's Torch
Exactly. Emails are ONLY kept on local hard drives goes against practically every email architecture and backup plan in the world.

Come on now. We all know the Feds have a data backup program like your grandfather's AOL account. /s

106 posted on 06/19/2014 6:52:32 AM PDT by NYRepublican72
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To: servo1969

“GOP fury after report claims IRS ‘recycled’ Lerner hard drive”

The drive itself is irrelevant. This is an obvious FU from the Obamao admin to Congress. What will the GOP do with their “fury”? My guess is very little.


107 posted on 06/19/2014 6:56:11 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Diogenesis
They have all of OUR emails; we get none of THEIRS......
108 posted on 06/19/2014 7:07:08 AM PDT by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: livius
he clearly wanted a way to keep people from knowing who he was talking to

I saw a photo a couple of years ago of "Obama" standing at a tee box texting away on his personal BlackBerry.

You don't really think he plays all that golf, do you? Have you seen the videos of him bowling or throwing a baseball?

All these "rounds of golf" that get some on the right so exercised are when he conducts the business of his real job.

If he doesn't have the Order of Lenin already, there is no justice.

109 posted on 06/19/2014 7:08:32 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: zeugma; unixfox

>> Conscience? That’s surgically removed once you’ve hired on.

Understood. Just between you and me, I was putting more faith in the reward money scheme, and not so much in the appeal to conscience. :-)


110 posted on 06/19/2014 7:23:11 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: SC_Pete

Issa is ALL TALK and ZERO ACTION. F-ing do something Darrell if you’re “so angry.”


111 posted on 06/19/2014 7:25:08 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

But now we live in the era of gangster government, aided and abetted by a complicit gangster media.


112 posted on 06/19/2014 7:30:59 AM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: servo1969

Talk about a do-nothing congress!


113 posted on 06/19/2014 7:40:05 AM PDT by Maudeen ("End Times Warrior - Just a Sinner Saved by Grace")
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To: Ann Archy

I’d buy that bumper sticker.


114 posted on 06/19/2014 8:00:59 AM PDT by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: Travis McGee

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve never seen it in such epic proportions. Who’d have thought that in this “age of information”, there would be so many low-information bubble brains knowing only what the government-controlled media wants them to know?


115 posted on 06/19/2014 8:07:50 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: IamConservative

“I wonder if the IRS uses a service like Office365? Which is to wonder if the service provider could be subpoenaed?”

Nope. It is Exchange. The .PST file is saved on the hard drive, but is backed up daily and put out to a server. Which is also backed up daily.

All they need to do is pull her archived .pst files. Now if those are missing, there is a problem.


116 posted on 06/19/2014 8:15:45 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: Senator_Blutarski

“Let me state the obvious: The Republicans need to get some knowledgeable IT people to help them question the IRS IT people about the IRS email systems. How hard is that?”

They would probably hire Romney’s people.


117 posted on 06/19/2014 8:16:59 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz ("Heck of a reset there, Hillary")
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To: servo1969

The democrats are going what republicans said in chorus that Nixon should have done early in the Watergate story....destroy all evidence.

Now, the difference as always is that no important part of the media will clamor for accountability. Instead, it will be crickets.

So, what does the GOP then do?

They can’t do anything. They don’t have the power to enforce. That belongs to the executive, and he won’t do it.


118 posted on 06/19/2014 8:17:02 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: servo1969

If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about ‘losing’ e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Welcome to the United Fascist States of America.


119 posted on 06/19/2014 8:22:57 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: Nervous Tick
I was putting more faith in the reward money scheme, and not so much in the appeal to conscience.

It would have to be a lot of cash, as anyone standing against the PTB can expect a dramatically reduced life expectancy.

120 posted on 06/19/2014 8:33:02 AM PDT by zeugma (It is time for us to start playing cowboys and muslims for real now.)
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