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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This is just another middle finger in the face of America and the Republicans.
Every agency in government has now been politicized.
Let's get serious here. That can NEVER happen, and basically silly.
Seriously tho', the Regime could execute every Constitutional Conservative in the country, and the GOP-e would do nothing. THAT is plausible!
Conservative group amends IRS lawsuit
BY JULIET EILPERIN July 22, 2013
A conservative group suing the Internal Revenue Service on Monday amended its lawsuit over the agency’s processing of its request for tax-exempt status to include the agency’s chief counsel, William Wilkins.
Acting on behalf of True the Vote , a Houston-based voter watchdog group, the ActRight Legal Foundation first asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in late May to grant its request for tax-exempt status and award damages for what it described as unlawful conduct by the IRS.
Last week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released a transcript in which an IRS employee said Wilkins helped develop its controversial guidelines for reviewing tax-exempt applications the agency dubbed “tea party” cases. The IRS said last week that Wilkins, one of only two IRS officials appointed by the president, was never involved in the process.
The panel’s ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), has questioned whether conservative groups were actually singled out for special scrutiny by the IRS, citing repeated testimony by agency employees that partisanship played no role in the program.
The lawsuit also added five senior IRS employees — four of whom were working at headquarters, one of whom was based in Cincinnati. The amended suit also includes a new count accusing IRS employees and senior leaders of violating key portions of the Administrative Procedures Act, which prohibits federal employees from violating constitutional rights and exceeding their authority in the carrying out of their official duties.
“This lawsuit is the only way to get all of the answers involving this national scandal,” True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement. “Our goal is not a speedy settlement or a quiet Washington deal. We will sue, depose and expose every person who came near this illegal scheme to suppress voters’ First Amendment rights. The American people — not just True the Vote — deserve answers.”
I saw some footage of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell sitting with Obama, Pelosi and, I think, Harry Reid, yesterday.
Just observing the smiles and laughter from McConnell and Boehner spoke volumes to me. It made me feel a little sick.
Every scandal that broke since then, I'd still put forth that thinking... only difference being that each time I thought it was less whimsical and more seriously possible. They crossed the 50-50 point between whimsical and serious a year or two ago. We are now solidly in the area of the 'Rats taking over for good...
And still, no call for a special prosecutor.
Based on Obama’s lawless actions it is possible that he is trying to maneuver the House into filing articles of impeachment. He calculates that it would damage the GOP conservatives, mobilize his base and generate sympathy from the low information electorate. He can further rely on the weak-kneed Senate, even a Republican one, to refuse to convict. This President would consider impeachment a badge of honor and wave it like a bloody shirt for the rest of his life.
They take the public for fools and a$$holes. You know, they’re half right, since half the public voted for them.
This is like the ‘glitch’ that affected healthcare.gov. Enough of the stupid uninformed public will believe it, and the entire media establishment will support it, to make it worthwhile to feed us lies.
No way, it, obama, is way to much of an egotist to end up like bill clinton, an impeached failure. That said, the upcoming elections may just put some spine in the republicans in the senate. note the word "may" I don't think it will, but nothing is impossible, not even republicans, in the senate, getting some manhood.
Very possible considering that it is a win if he's impeached and a win if he's not. The play against him is to stop the agenda, jail underlings as much as possible, and let 0bama continue to hang himself and his party.
If Congress wanted the emails, they would put language in IRS’s appropriations limiting them to spending 50% of their funds until the emails are turned over. That would incentivize everyone in IRS to find the emails because their salaries are on the line.
Office 365 is Microsoft’s “Office in the Cloud” solution. Exchange servers, rights management, and document storage are all in the cloud. That being said, I doubt the government is using it, esp. for federal offices, but then there are a lot of things they do that make no sense to me, so it’s possible.
Bottom line, this is a stonewalling tactic by the regime. I would bet the number of Americans who believe this tripe are fewer than 20% of the population. Anyone paying attention for the last 25 years knows full well that enterprises, corporations, and governments have backups of backups. If you don’t have your data stored locally, backed up to local servers, removable media, and with a secure storage provider (i.e. Iron Mountain) then you’re either an underhanded idiot or a liar.
priceless
The past couple years has been spent destroying all traces of the evidence tying the scandal to Owebama.
Without a special prosecutor that can drag the bastards into court, nothing can be done about it.
We have to take the Senate in Nov!!
Good thinking.
And time marches on ...
Wonder if anyone has saved some emails......a la Monica’s blue dress.
and don't forget that they were too busy taking copyright protections away from a privately held company as well.
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