[Peter W. Kessler]

Rogue agency?

We have a rogue GOVERNMENT.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

If they’re going to lie they should at least come up with some credible stories. The average first grade kid can do better than this.

[Joe Boucher]

Missed “another deadline”.
Can’t a judge order the big wigs at the irs held in contempt?
How about hanging a few of them?

[AlphaOneAlpha]

Just throw that grinning little prick that heads the IRS into jail and tell him he’s not getting out until his tribe starts delivering docs on time.

[Diogenesis]

"We, your EXEMPT GOP Masters above you, support the
torture of conservatives mercilessly with IRS attacks
and their coverup. They were all initiated by us."

[ThunderSleeps]

Now, instead of that dog-ate-my-homework claim, the excuse is that the IRS only wants to make sure there are no duplicates in the bunch, a peculiar fastidiousness given how the agency has stopped answering most taxpayer phone calls .

BS. Myself or any other competent programmer can write a little program to find/remove duplicates in under 1 hr, (*) and run it across a few thousand emails in a few minutes or less. Besides, who the {expletive} cares if there are dupes, just release the {expletive} info you lying {expletives}. Hold them in contempt (I certainly do) and throw them in jail.

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(*) Not making that up. I actually wrote a similar program to scan through digital images on our home file server. We take lots of pics, and admittedly don't always organize them as well as we should. My program looks for duplicates by reading in the raw bytes of the image (.jpg, .png, etc), generating an MD5 hash, and then storing the hash and pathname to the file in an internal data structure. (a map keyed on that hash value) When it finds a duplicate hash it is a pretty good bet that it isn't an accidental collision. It prints out the duplicate paths and moves one copy to a folder to be deleted. If for any reason I think they are not duplicates I can move them back.

[MaggiesPitchfork]

It’s not the excuses they give, it’s who accepts them. The correct answer is “Who cares if they’re duplicates? Just hand them over, you pricks.”