Posted on 06/19/2014 8:15:20 AM PDT by chessplayer
The IRS announced last night after a subpoena from House Oversight chair Darrell Issa that Lois Lerners hard drive had been either thrown away or recycled, which means at least for the moment that none of her interagency e-mails can be recovered:
IT experts have weighed in and said yes we can get those emails, said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) earlier Wednesday.
The latest news suggests such professionals may never get the chance to try again and the IRS has even said its criminal investigators who specialize in rebuilding hard drives to recover hidden information from criminals were unable to restore the data back in 2011. But this is only likely to further enrage Republicans, who are fuming over the matter and suspect Washington officials drove the selective scrutiny.
Without backups or the drives, those communications have been lost. Unless Lerner testifies, which she has so far refused to do, or unless the House subpoenas all executive-branch e-mails, theyre likely lost forever.
“Why should they get a pass when the situation is reversed?”
They shouldn’t. At the very least, the VERY least, Lerner should go to jail for the same amount of time as Scooter Libby, and lose her pension.
We have officially crossed over to the point at which we now have the equivalent of a politburo controlling our lives.
We can’t trust anymore that the sanctity of our vote will be protected. We can’t trust that the government will protect us from foreign invasion (the encouragement and non-prosecution of illegal immigration is clearly a form of foreign invasion). We can’t trust that our elected officials will be held to the same standards and laws as the rest of us.
Frankly, we can’t trust anymore that the government will acknowledge and respect our rights of free speech, self-determinism, or ownership of private property. In short we can’t trust anymore that we are truly free in the country that many of us pledged allegiance to in schools across the nation as children.
Your post is the post of the day.
It just goes to show they don't even bother to make a coherent excuse, just any lie they through out will go unchallenged and unreported in the media.
It was placed on a train track, then melted, then thrown into the Marianas Trench but there wasn’t a smidgeon of corruption on it.
It is going to come down to how hard the reformers push back on this. The RINOs are already nodding in agreement that the emails are lost..
The “RINOs”, ie, the GOPe, are as opposed to small-gov’t conservatives as much as any democrat is.
What are the chances? That Lerner sure has good luck. OK folks. Pack it up. The show’s over.
Understood. My point was that the computer is bupkiss in this whole deal. Get the servers.
What’s worse is that it will go unchallenged by American citizens.
In fact this will likely be cheered.
IT people know this is a lie. They may destroy HER hard drive, but those emails are in several other places. Things don’t just disappear once they are put on the Internet.
They think everyone is stupid enough to believe their outlright lies.
Well, it has worked in the past.
It worked with the computer wordprocesser birth certificate.
Con after con after con after con. And they get away with it because they can.
Behind the copier it is!
The left cheers whenever their leaders “stick it to conservatives”, no matter what laws are broken or how corrupt the behavior is.
And the feckless republicant run Congress is going to allow this same criminal org run healthcare in America! Yeah, that’ll end well.
Yup. They’re basically saying “A unicorn ate the hard disk. Don’t believe us? What are you going to do about it?”
Permanently shut down the IRS. That’s the only option left.
Eggs Ackley. I guarantee that the NSA has every byte of data the treacherous bitch has written for the past five years. But of course that can only be accessed if the unJustice Department subpoenas it. And look which criminal boss is running that org!
Julian Assange will release them before long....
Yup.
And the media, supposedly there to keep politicians honest, smirks and goes along with it.
They are truly failing at their charge.
Yep... if they can’t even secure emails.... well we certainly don’t want them enforcing tax code.
Oh, they are much worse than failing, they are the enemy within, enabling the aborting of the Republic by spreading the lies to prevent the people from knowing just how far it has gotten away from the Constitution, OUR CONSTITUTION.
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