"Apology? Here's your apology."
The new IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, literally oozes arrogance as he smiles and shrugs off any suggestion of wrongdoing by his agency even in the face of incontrovertible evidence. In his testimony before Congress, when asked if the IRS owed the American people an apology, he said that no apology was owed.
The below report by WND has two excerpts of Koskinen under questioning by Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Dave Camp (R-MI) respectively.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/irs-chief-no-apology-owed/#O38gwcZMsOtuxIV6.03
And as for the missing e-mails, the hard drives have apparently been recycled, melted down and destroyed.
"Why didn't I think of that?"
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Jonah Goldberg wrote a column recently asking "Where's the outrage?" There simply isn't much there to be outraged about. Let's assume there is a bit of a cover-up. Bureaucrats tend to play CYA if there is a beep or moan out of anyone. Its an unconscious reflex.
But what's being covered up is next to nothing. No organization had its office burglarized, its phones tapped, nor was any organization infiltrated by agents provocateur on the federal payroll.
All that happened was that a crop of new organizations was closely scrutinized as to its application for federal largesse at taxpayer expense. In other words, these brave stalwarts of freedom wanted the IRS to given them its official seal of approval as a "non-profit organization."
When the organizations are obviously of a political character, close scrutiny of their partisan nature is to be expected, since partisan organizations are NOT, be law, eligible for tax exempt status.
Nobody can get really riled up about that, except the self-righteous cretins who filed the applications, and Republicans suffering from subpoena envy.
I do have a conservative solution for all of this: repeal all laws authorizing tax exemptions for organizations. Let everyone pay their taxes, in full, and donate whatever they want to whatever cause commands their loyalty. Then the IRS wouldn't be parsing which organizations are worthy of such largesse, because there wouldn't be any.
Increased tax revenues could be balanced by exempting the first $10,000 or $20,000 of income from tax, for everyone, a much more sensible measure than shaving percentage points off the upper brackets.
(What a bunch of crybabies... if the truly stood for independence, they would spurn to even seek tax exempt status from the despised federal government.)
Aside from the apparent and blatant lawlessness found here, what kind of "Gate" do we call this?
Is this hard-drive gate, or IRS-gate, lost info gate?
Squid
@Siarlys,
Siarlys, the fact that emails were lost from Lerner's hard drive, that coincided with the period of time that she OK'ed the targeting of Conservatives is more than coincidental. But, when six other hard drives do down for the same period, it smacks of conspiracy, especially when one of those drives belonged to the assistant director of IRS operations under Miller, who visited the white House over 30 times just before the targeting behavior.
The Obama Administration is participating in withholding or delaying the release of exculpatory evidence and deliberately mishandling, mistreating or distroying evidence. This is high crime, which has been standard operating procedure by the Department of Justice, under Obama.
Squid
Which, if true Squid, is kinda stupid, because there really is nothing to cover up that anybody really cares about. You don't see a swelling rage of public outcry because nobody can get really riled up about a bunch of self-righteous little cliques who might have had their tax exempt status delayed. A cover up of nothing is nothing much.
At least when Clinton lied about Monica Lewinsky, he was covering up a sordid bit of sexual exploitation. This doesn't even rate that level of outrage.
(And as to that, I recall a cartoon in 2000 about American women finding straight-laced Al Gore boring, and longing for a more exciting man like Bill. There was some truth in that, just as there is some reason Appalachian whites and urban blacks like Hillary. Darned if I can explain why.)
EmptyGate.
Gate to nowhere.
NothingGate.
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