Posted on 08/25/2014 8:00:30 PM PDT by kristinn
The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivan’s court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerner’s Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerner’s hard drive.
We all know by now that Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashed in June 2011 and was destroyed by IRS. The emails of up to twenty other related IRS officials were missing in remarkably similar “crashes,” leading many to speculate that Lois Lerner’s Blackberry perhaps held the key. Now, the Observer can confirm that a year after the infamous hard drive crash, the IRS destroyed Ms. Lerner’s Blackberry—and without making any effort to retain the emails from it.
Judge Sullivan has had to pry information from the IRS to learn anything about Ms. Lerner’s Blackberry. Now, with these latest revelations, I’m confident he’s not finished.
In two elusive and nebulous sworn declarations, we can glean that Ms. Lerner had two Blackberries. One was issued to her on November 12, 2009. According to a sworn declaration, this is the Blackberry that contained all the emails (both sent and received) that would have been in her “Outlook” and drafts that never were sent from her Blackberry during the relevant time.
With incredible disregard for the law and the Congressional inquiry, the IRS admits that this Blackberry “was removed or wiped clean of any sensitive or proprietary information and removed as scrap for disposal in June 2012.” This is a year after her hard drive “crash” and months after the Congressional inquiry began.
The IRS did not even attempt to retrieve that data. It cavalierly recites: “There is no record of any attempt...
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
I’ve had clients do time for eating marijuana when confronted by police for “Tampering with Evidence”.
But a total blatant cover up of abuse of executive power?
Nah, that’s not going to happen.
This administration is untouchable.
Even a special prosecutor answers to the AG, so the lawlessness will continue.
I don’t expect Holder to leave until his master does.
Which one?
The Clinton body count is so high with plane crashes and suicides (shots in the back, etc. all ruled accidents or suicide by the same Arkansas Governor appointed ME.
That guy carried a lot of water for the Clintons.
I recall one case he ruled the death as being by natural causes related to a stomach ulcer.
Turns out he was decapitated.
Life is indeed stranger than fiction.
Hey, if she said she has done nothing wrong, she has done nothing wrong. (In a John McCain voice).
(Ron something)
Ron Brown, Michael’s second cousin by marriage I think.
Criminality runs amok in our institutions, how long before we all are caught up in this web of crime?
If your tax money is used in a criminal enterprise does that make you an accessory to the crime?
It does if you know it is used illegally.
Can conscientious objector arguments be used to protest payments for criminal acts?
Lerner funded Hamas, ISIS, the “rebels”
and al Qaeda world wide using the Obama Regime.
Every death that has occurred is due to the
Obamas, Lerner, Issa and Cummings.
ping
Whoever takes over the WH in 2017 will have to start by putting yellow crime scene tape around the whole thing.
Republicans and/or Tea Party candidates MUST have a plank in their platforms to abolish the IRS. This is ridiculous.
so AGAIN.... what is the remedy under the LAW...
obstruction of justice, contempt of congress, plus crimes committed against conservative groups, denying them their civil rights in addition to the criminal aspects..
HOLDER IS A CO-CONSPIRATOR IN THE COVERUP...and most likely the white house too...
Appoint an independent prosecutor... and put em all in jail, where they belong.......
Bullsh!t. We don't know that. All we know is the LIES that they have told us from day one.
The media covering for these traitors as usual. We should be burning down their offices at this point.
For the good of the country....... an example must be made of Lois Lerner.
Off with her head. Her crimes are capital. She destroyed the rights of people to assemble and to express their views. He death will be a signal to others.
Seriously, at some point she has to be considered “guilty” of exactly what they are investigating because of her intense agenda to cover up any information about her actions.
At least throw the whole book at her on 15,000 counts of obstruction.
Without a doubt, someone in this chain of events, due to self-preservation or profit interests, has made copies. Government workers are like that...At some point, someone will come forward with the goods. There just needs to be some heads to roll to “entice” them.
It has been obvious from the beginning of this situation that matters could be quickly resolved if Republicans in Congress started imprisoning the IT guys at the IRS, starting from the low level guys and moving up the food chain. I would guess all the emails would have been made available within a week at the most had this been done.
The fact that this hasn’t happened is just further confirmation that our so-called opposition party is complicit in this, and is quite likely cheering the harassment of conservatives behind the scenes.
Well so now we know the IRS deliberately destroyed all of the devices holding LL’s emails. What is going to be done about it? I’ll take nothing for $500 Alex.
Agreed
I am serious as a heart attack. Lois Lerner must be executed for crimes against the Republic.
Her crimes are greater than those previously executed for treason
Soap on a rope time!
“Now if Nixon had done that, they would’ve strung him up.”
In all seriousness, if Nixon had done that, it would have been politically impossible for Ford to have pardoned him.
Watergate was a two-bit burglary, and the cover-up was just typical CYA, in comparison with with the lies, deceit, perjury, obstruction of justice, and abuse of office wrapped up in the IRS scandal. Then there is F&F, Benghazi, etc., etc.
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