Hat tip Gateway Pundit
The big talking point of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and his Democratic apologists is that Lois Lerner's computer crashed three years ago in 2011 resulting in the loss of all those critical e-mails before he became commissioner and before all this fuss started.
Well, not exactly.
It turns out that the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp, had sent a letter to IRS in 2011 asking if conservative groups had been targeted, ten days before the computer crashed. Six other IRS officials suspected of involvement also mysteriously had their computers crash during the same period.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/06/breaking-lois-lerners-computer-mysteriously-crashed-10-days-after-gop-house-leaders-asked-about-targeting/
Just another coincidence, I am sure.
The point is that the loss of e-mails is part of the time line of events. Moreover, Koskinen knew about it back in March when he testified and assured the committee that all of Lois Lerner's e-mails would be forthcoming. Yet he and the IRS waited until last Friday to mention the problem on page 15 of a 27-page letter.
Yet, yesterday virtually every Democratic member of the Ways and Means Committee apologized to the arrogant Koskinen, dismissed the whole thing as a witch hunt and neglected to ask any probing questions, preferring to cede part of their allotted time for the commissioner to make his talking points. And today on MSNBC, liberal talking head Jonathan Alter repeated the Democratic line that this is just one big hootenanny.
The thing that is most outrageous about all this is that Lerner, Koskinen, the previous commissioners of IRS will all get away with it because you have a White House, a Senate, A Justice Department, Treasury Department all controlled by Democrats. Some of the Democrats in Congress, like Dick Durbin, Carl Levin, and Elijah Cummings have their own hands dirty in this mess because they pressured the IRS to go after conservative groups in the first place. They actually wanted the IRS to investigate and prosecute these groups. What the IRS was able to do was keep the requests for tax-exempt status in limbo.
And then you have most of the main stream media, which might as well be a state-run media since they refuse to investigate and root out the corruption of the Obama administration as they did the Nixon administration.
This is no way to sustain a democracy.
I heard the issue first time yesterday. If 100% accurate, the timing issue (Initial Inquiry Letter June of 2011 THEN followed by "crash" and perhaps 6 others) this is smoking gun level. Not sure why Drudge isn't headlining with this. That news w/b even too big for the MSM to ignore
ReplyDeleteYou wonder why Lerner took the 5th?
ReplyDeleteI wonder why Republicans don't give up. No sizeable portion of the American people, the average men and women in the street, are getting fired up about it, because its not a big deal. Republicans are just so insistent that "Its our turn to turn up the heat on a big scandal now, why isn't anyone paying attention, waaahhhhhhh! OK, if we stand on our head and hold our breath till we turn blue will the people take this seriously?"
ReplyDeleteUmmmmmm.... no. sorry guys. Nobody is getting worked up over the possibility that a small bunch of loud-mouthed little political agitation groups got a little extra scrutiny over their application for official federal government permission to let their deep pocketed donors get a tax deduction to subsidize propaganda denouncing how big and bad the federal government is.
It just doesn't rate.
There is an eminently conservative solution: cancel ALL tax deductible organization statuses. All of them. Then there will be nothing for the IRS to withhold. Happy now? It will reduce government intrusion into our liberties.
Part of the reason more people are not worked up over it is because the news media doesn't follow it. There's a whole lot of UC Santa Cruz Community Studies majors who are unaware.
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ReplyDeleteThe public should be in outrage! What part of withholding or delaying the release of exculpatory evidence and deliberately mishandling, mistreating or distorting evidence and making statements to the media that misdirects the attention of the public and failing to report to Congress that the evidence exists when it does not, do you not understand.
This unlawful behavior.
Squid
Squid, it is the lack of substance to what was allegedly being covered up that numbs any possibility of outrage. If a young man sets fire to the neighbors' barn, then tries to lie about it to cover himself, that is a very serious matter, because burning the barn is a serious matter. But if he merely buys a soda against his mother's wishes as to how he is to spend his allowance, any "cover up" is taken much less seriously.
ReplyDeleteI note however that it can take more than ten days for a letter to even be opened and read in a government bureaucracy, and since the anthrax spores sent through the mail in late 2001, it can take more than ten days for mail to even reach a government office.
Gary, I've been reading all about this in the daily press for months. If the UC-Santa Cruz community studies majors haven't been reading the newspapers, well, did you expect as much from them? I wonder sometimes if they are even literate, but they hardly represent The American People.
Not to mention that prior to/during these e-mailings and subsequent convenient computer crashes, the IRS actually employed a contractor to back up/archive this stuff. It is being reported that approximately 30 days after the crashes, the services of the contractor were terminated.
ReplyDeleteI have not caught if the contractor is unwilling or unable to retrieve the e-mails, but I understand it to be one or the other.
If the former, looks to me like another case of probable convenience/coincidence, no??
If the latter, this might appear to be yet another failure of the IRS/Administration, perhaps something similar to the Obamacare rollout, but probably (hopefully??) on a smaller financial scale.
The Affordable Care Act is working just fine elwood, its the web site that didn't work well, and a lot of us just bypassed that, thanks to the heroic work of the competent staff at the 800#.
ReplyDeleteSince the Affordable Care Act was a program delivering services, not a cover-up, your analogy is quite a stretch. But again, nobody is paying attention to a cover up of nothing much.
It may be working for you Siarlys because it gave you something you didn't have before. it's not working so good for those who had insurance then lost it.
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