Thread: May 16, 2014 4:00 AM The Emerging Junta The IRS’s illegal actions — and its efforts

May 16, 2014 4:00 AM

The Emerging Junta
The IRS’s illegal actions — and its efforts at cover-up — undermine the foundations of our government. By Kevin D. Williamson






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By Kevin D. Williamson



I will confess to a little despair over the relatively mild reception that has greeted the evidence, now conclusive and irrefutable, that the Internal Revenue Service, under the direction of senior leaders affiliated with the Democratic party, was used as a political weapon from at least 2010 through the 2012 election. It may be that the American public simply does not care about the issue; it is always difficult, if not impossible, to predict what issues will seize the electorate’s attention, or to understand why after the fact. It may be that the public does not understand the issue, in which case a brief explanation of the known facts may be of some use.

Here is what happened. In the run-up to the 2012 election, senior IRS executives including Lois Lerner, then the head of the IRS branch that oversees the activities of tax-exempt nonprofit groups, began singling out conservative-leaning organizations for extra attention, invasive investigations, and legal harassment. The IRS did not target groups that they believed might be violating the rules governing tax-exempt organizations; rather, as e-mails from the agency document, the IRS targeted these conservative groups categorically, regardless of whether there was any evidence that they were not in compliance with the relevant regulations. Simply having the words “tea party,” “patriot,” or “9/12” (a reference to one of Glenn Beck’s many channels of activism) in the name was enough. Also targeted were groups dedicated to issues such as taxes, spending, debt, and, perhaps most worrisome, those that were simply “critical of the how the country is being run.” Organizations also were targeted based on the identity of their donors. Their applications were delayed, their managements harassed, and the IRS demanded that they answer wildly inappropriate questions, such as the content of their prayers. When an internal review threatened to expose the fact that, in the words of the IRS’s inspector general, the agency was “using inappropriate criteria to identify organizations applying for tax-exempt status,” Ms. Lerner staged an event at a tax-law conference at which she used a planted questioner to preemptively disclose the issue on her own terms, and the agency began claiming that the tea-party targeting, while regrettable, was the work of a few misguided agents at a satellite office in Cincinnati. In fact, the direction came from Washington and was, in the words of the agency’s own e-mails, “coordinated with” a senior manager there, Rob Choi, director of rulings and agreements. This began at the behest of Democratic officeholders, including Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, who requested that the IRS disclose to him information about tea-party groups that it would have been illegal for the IRS to disclose. It subsequently emerged that IRS officials had intentionally misled members of Congress and investigators about the matter.

During this period, IRS operatives were, according to the Office of Special Counsel, openly campaigning for the reelection of Barack Obama on IRS time using IRS resources. A few were later disciplined for their actions, but the extent of the political activity of IRS agents remains unknown.

The IRS is not just a revenue agency — it is a law-enforcement agency, a police agency with far greater powers of investigation and coercion that any normal police force. Its actions in this matter are not only inappropriate — they are illegal. Using government resources for political ends is a serious crime, as is conspiring to mislead investigators about those crimes. But so far, other than holding Lois Lerner in contempt for refusing to comply with the demands of congressional investigators, almost nothing has happened. The characteristic feature of a police state is that those who are entrusted with the power to enforce the law are not themselves bound by it.

Context is again here important. The IRS scandal is not a standalone issue but comes at a time when the Democratic party is seeking to radically expand the power of the federal government to regulate political speech; we can safely assume that the same people who were using the IRS’s political-speech regulations for political ends will have precisely the same motives and precisely the same opportunity to use other political-speech regulations for precisely the same political ends: to benefit their allies and persecute their enemies. So committed are the Democrats to keeping their critics under the thumb of federal police powers that they have introduced an amendment in the Senate that would effectively repeal the free-speech provisions of the First Amendment, those having proved inconvenient to Democrats in Supreme Court rulings such as McCutcheon and Citizens United, the latter case involving a federal attempt to make it a crime to show a film critical of a political figure under unapproved circumstances.

The most important question that must be answered in this matter does not involve the misbehavior of IRS officials and Democratic officeholders, though those are important. Nor is it the question of free speech, vital and fundamental as that is. The question here is nothing less than the legitimacy of the United States government. When law-enforcement agencies and federal regulators with extraordinary coercive powers are subordinated to political interests rather than their official obligations — to the Party rather than to the law — then the law itself becomes meaningless, and the delicate constitutional order we have enjoyed for more than two centuries is reduced to a brutal might-makes-right proposition. Elected officials and public servants of both parties take an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and to faithfully discharge the duties of their office. That oath is now being tested. The IRS investigation is no mere partisan scandal, but a moral challenge for the men and women who compose the government of this country. Whether they are sufficient to meet that challenge is far from obvious, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.

— Kevin D. Williamson is roving correspondent for National Review.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/378115/emerging-junta-kevin-d-williamson

The IRS investigation is no mere partisan scandal, but a moral challenge for the men and women who compose the government of this country. Whether they are sufficient to meet that challenge is far from obvious, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.

Is using the IRS as a political weapon cowardly and bad policy. Certainly, it is! Is it new? Certainly not! Probably may presidents have used it in such fashion. Nixon was the first that I remember, I would not have put it past Johnson. However, in all those years neither party has really done anything meaningful to end it, so I must assume that when in power, both or either party approves of it when the weapon is theirs to use. Now that is not surprising to me/

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Obama’s IRS Gave FBI Over 1 Million Pages of Taxpayer Info to Encourage Prosecution of Conservatives




Obama’s IRS Gave FBI Over 1 Million Pages of Taxpayer Info - Encouraged Prosecution of Conservatives

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And the hits just keep on coming. The administration of Barack Obama will certainly go down in history as one of the most corrupt, tyrannical administrations in US history. I'm from the South and despise the tyrant Abraham Lincoln, so when I make that statement, that is saying something. However, newly released documents indicate that Obama's Internal Revenue Service gave 1.1 million pages of information on US taxpayers to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in order to encourage prosecution of conservatives.

In a letter that was sent from Congressmen Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan to John Koskinen, Commissioner of the IRS, the facts were presented that detail that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently learned "that the IRS transmitted 21 disks containing over 1.1 million pages of information about tax-exempt groups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in October 2010 in advance of Lois Lerner's meeting with the Justice Department about potentially using campaign finance laws to criminally prosecute certain nonprofit groups engaged in political speech."
Consider that political speech is specifically what the First Amendment is designed to protect and that it starts with the phrase "Congress shall make no law." If Congress shall make no law regarding speech, then there is no reason for the federal government to be investigating individuals or organizations that engage in it.

The disks that were sent to the FBI, "contained confidential taxpayer information protected by federal law," according to the letter. So will the law be enforced seeing that Issa and Jordan are seeming to admit that the law has been broken? Probably not.
However, they did demand the Commissioner "produce all material explaining how these disks were prepared and transmitted to the FBI."
The letter also included copies of email exchanges between then IRS head Lois Lerner and Richard Pilger, director of Election Crimes Branch of the Department of Justice.

Other emails were attached to the letter, including one from Lois Lerner's predecessor Sarah Ingram, who was over tax exempt organizations at the IRS. She wrote in an email, dated September 21, 2010:

"Thanks, as always, for the excellent support from Media. I do think it came out pretty well. The "secret donor" theme will continue–see Obama salvo today and Diane Reehm (sp). At least SS started the idea that we don't have the law to do something, although Marcus had a flavor that we just don't care because we are a tax agency. He should know better even if he is unhappy with the environment and the tax laws."

Diane Reehm is a National Public Radio host. You'll notice the reference of the email is to a New York Times story, "As Rules Shift, Donor Names Stay Secret." Again, we can see how the major media outlets are clearly in bed with the Obama administration and by definition are somewhat complicit in the criminal activity by failing to report the truth.

You would think some people would have been prosecuted for this by now, wouldn't you? But no, just like Fast and Furious, Benghazi, Extortion 17 and a host of other scandals that aren't phony, nothing gets done except more hearings and more investigations without Congress writing down one article of impeachment or bringing criminal charges against anyone. But, oh the rhetoric we are hearing from them about the crimes against the American people!
So should we expect for the IRS to produce the material requested? Hardly.

In fact, on Friday the IRS claimed that it would be unable to produce Lerner's emails to and from the White House and other federal departments due to an alleged computer crash. Seriously? The timing could not be more suspect. We know that there is the technology available to recover data from crashed computers, so this is complete bunk. Will anyone be held accountable? Again, probably not.

I'm not the only one that thought it suspicious either. Take a look:




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And Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) hit it out of the park with this tweet (which by the way, we should ask what is the law that requires us to file tax returns in the first place.
Senator Ted Cruz ✔ @SenTedCruz Follow Wonder what the #IRS would say if we told them we couldn’t submit tax documents because of a computer crash… http://waysandmeans.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=384506 …
1:19 PM - 13 Jun 2014



Patrick Howley writes at the Daily Caller on what he claims "may go down in history next to the eighteen and a half minute gap in the Watergate tapes, which was supposedly caused by a mistake by Richard Nixon's secretary Rose Mary Woods."
Rep. Dave Camp said in a statement:

"The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS's response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General."

"Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise. Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies. Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone. This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner. The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights."

An empty promise, eh? Is that sort of how members of Congress have made threats to impeach Obama if he does this or that, or provide rhetoric about criminal activity to appease the American people while at the same time shake hands with the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States? If you haven't seen what's going on and this doesn't open your eyes to the corruption….on both sides of the aisle, then you just are willfully ignorant and are part of the problem.

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This is called abuse of power!!!

SHOCKER, NOT: IRS ‘Lost’ 2 Years of Lois Lerner’s Emails




Posted on June 13, 2014
Can’t say we didn’t see this coming. Funny how the NSA can keep track of our phones, yet the government seems to have conveniently ‘lost’ two years of Lois Lerner’s e-mails. Do they really expect us to believe this? See below via Townhall:

According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS has “lost” two years of emails belonging to former head of tax exempt organizations Lois Lerner.

The IRS doesn’t have a record of her emails to outside groups or government agencies from January 2009 through April 2011, conveniently encompassing some of the same time when tea party groups were being targeted for extra scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.
The IRS says the loss of emails is due to a “computer crash” and claims emails from or to Lerner from the White House, Democratic members of Congress, the Treasury Department and Department of Justice cannot be located.

They do however have emails belonging to Lerner that she sent to other IRS employees.
Read more: Townhall

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IRS Lost Lerner Emails Due to Computer Crash, Agency Says
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The Internal Revenue Service claims to have lost two-years worth of emails between former IRS official Lois Lerner, who resigned under pressure for her role in the IRS targeting scandal, and outside a

Convenient: IRS Has 'Lost' Two Years of Lois Lerner's Emails

Katie Pavlich | Jun 13, 2014








According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS has "lost" two years of emails belonging to former head of tax exempt organizations Lois Lerner. The IRS doesn't have a record of her emails to outside groups or government agencies from January 2009 through April 2011, conveniently encompassing some of the same time when tea party groups were being targeted for extra scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution. The IRS says the loss of emails is due to a "computer crash" and claims emails from or to Lerner from the White House, Democratic members of Congress, the Treasury Department, FEC and Department of Justice cannot be located. They do however have emails belonging to Lerner that she sent to other IRS employees.
“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said in a statement. “Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise. Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies. Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone. This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner. The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.”
Emails belonging to Lerner that were not "lost" have shown that she was in contact with Democratic members of Congress and the Department of Justice about prosecuting tea party groups. Just this week, emails surfaced showing Lerner sent confidential tax information belonging to conservative groups to the FBI for investigation just before the 2010 midterm elections.
According to Camp, this is the first time the IRS has disclosed the loss of emails since the investigation into IRS targeting of conservatives started more than a year ago.

Ways and Means ✔ @WaysandMeansGOP Follow Camp: Learning about this over a year into the investigation is unacceptable & calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response
12:42 PM - 13 Jun 2014

UPDATE: Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa responds:

“Isn’t it convenient for the Obama Administration that the IRS now says it has suddenly realized it lost Lois Lerner’s emails requested by Congress and promised by Commissioner John Koskinen? Do they really expect the American people to believe that, after having withheld these emails for a year, they're just now realizing the most critical time period is missing? Congressional oversight has revealed that the IRS has –potentially illegally– shared confidential taxpayer information with the FBI and lost crucial email records even as the agency continues to withhold information by not fully complying with the Committee’s subpoena. Left to the IRS’ own preferences, the White House would still be retelling the lie that this was all about mismanagement confined to a local office. The supposed loss of Lerner’s emails further blows a hole in the credibility of claims that the IRS is complying with Congressional requests and their repeated assurances that they’re working to get to the truth. If there wasn't nefarious conduct that went much higher than Lois Lerner in the IRS targeting scandal, why are they playing these games?"

This post has been updated.


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepa...mails-n1851371




What is abuse of power!! Awake yet America??? Guess we can thank our politicians for these actions, and ourselves for allowing this to go on with out saying anything!!! See something Say something, I'm just saying! Is this criminal enough! Had enough yet?? Watch the media fall over themselves condoning this crap!!!!! But then again they can just ignore it and run with IRAQ!!!!

The #IRS claims it can’t recover an untold number of Lois Lerner’s emails from 2009-2011 due to a computer crash.



IRS Says It Can’t Recover Lois Lerner’s Emails From 2009-2011

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The IRS claims it can’t recover an untold number of Lois Lerner’s emails from 2009-2011 due to a computer crash.

RS Says It Can’t Recover Lois Lerner’s Emails From 2009-2011











by Fox News Insider // Jun 15 2014 // 3:27pm

As seen on Fox and Friends Weekend

The IRS claims it can’t recover an untold number of Lois Lerner’s emails from 2009-2011 due to a computer crash.


Fox News contributor John Fund was on “Fox and Friends,” where he discussed the news with Clayton Morris.

“Obama has managed to accomplish the impossible. He’s brought us Jimmy Carter’s economy and Richard Nixon’s excuses,” Fund said.

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House Ways and Means Chair: Lerner 'Violated People's Constitutional Rights'
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According to Fund, IT experts say the claim isn’t credible, and government servers should be backed up, even if the computer crashed.
Fund called for an independent prosecutor to investigate.

Watch the full interview above. Get more information below, via FoxNews.com:

Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Republican congressional leaders were incensed.

"The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS's response to congressional inquiries," said Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. "There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the inspector general."

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said he was "greatly troubled" that the agency didn't notify Congress when they first became aware of the computer problem.

“Today’s admission by the IRS that they cannot produce Lois Lerner’s emails is an outrageous impediment to our investigation," Hatch said in a statement. "Even more egregious is the fact we are learning about this a full year after our initial request to provide the Committee with any and all documents relating to our investigation."

The Ways and Means Committee is one of three congressional committees investigating the IRS over its handling of Tea Party applications from 2010 to 2012. The Justice Department and the IRS inspector general are also investigating.

Congressional investigators have shown that IRS officials in Washington were closely involved in the handling of Tea Party applications, many of which languished for more than a year without action. But so far, they have not publicly produced evidence that anyone outside the agency directed the targeting or even knew about it.

If anyone outside the agency was involved, investigators were hoping for clues in Lerner's emails.

The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 83 other IRS employees.

But an untold number are gone. Camp's office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, "such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices."

The IRS said in a statement that it has gone to great lengths cooperating with congressional investigations, spending nearly $10 million to produce more than 750,000 documents.

Overall, the IRS said it is producing a total of 67,000 emails to and from Lerner, covering the period from 2009 to 2013.

"The IRS is committed to working with Congress," the IRS said in a statement. "The IRS has remained focused on being thorough and responding as quickly as possible to the wide-ranging requests from Congress while taking steps to protect underlying taxpayer information."

Lerner has emerged as a key figure in the Tea Party probe. In May 2013, she was the first IRS official to publicly acknowledge that agents had improperly scrutinized applications.

About two weeks later, Lerner was subpoenaed to testify at a congressional hearing. But after making a brief statement in which she said she had done nothing wrong, Lerner refused to answer questions, invoking her constitutional right against self-incrimination.

The IRS placed Lerner on administrative leave shortly after the congressional hearing. She retired last fall.

In May, the House voted to hold Lerner in contempt of Congress. Her case has been turned over to the U.S. attorney for the district of Columbia.

video at link below

http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/06/15...ails-2009-2011

DOJ Official Has Shocking Proof IRS Lied About Losing Emails


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In the wake of the IRS claiming that they lost the emails of Lois Lerner from 2009-2011, a Department of Justice lawyer has come out and called the claim that a computer crash would cause it “laughable.”
The lawyer wished to remain anonymous, but they contacted the PowerlineBlog to set the record straight on the insanity coming from the Obama administration.
They wrote:
“I’m a DOJ lawyer, so you obviously cannot use my name or any identifying information. But the idea that a “hard drive crash” somehow destroyed all of Ms. Lerner’s intra-government email correspondence during the period in question [2009-2011] is laughable. Government email servers are backed up every night. So if she actually had a hard drive fail, her emails would be recoverable from the backup. If the backup was somehow also compromised, then we are talking about a conspiracy.
Keep up the good work.”
He even went further in his postscript:
“I’m serious about your keeping any identifying information out of the media. Things are very, very bad.”
As this unfolds we’re sure to see more shocking revelations develop from the most corrupt administration in history. It’s only a matter of time before something takes them down, the question is if Republicans will have the spine to act or not.

http://tellmenow.com/2014/06/doj-off...losing-emails/

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This is nothing but a mockery!!!

HELLO!!!!!

IRS to Congress: Oops, We Did It Again


Posted on June 17, 2014 by Tad Cronn

Despite the near impossibility of it happening, the IRS lost the emails of Lois Lerner, the central figure in the IRS targeting scandal, in a computer crash, including those she sent to addresses outside the IRS, such as the White House, that might have led to whoever gave Lerner her orders.
So, the math question of the day is, what is Impossible times 7

Because now, according to Republicans on the congressional Ways and Means Committee, which is investigating the scandal, the IRS is claiming that it has also lost the emails of six other people who are subjects of the probe in an utterly amazing string of computer crashes.
Among the lost emails are those from Nikole Flax, the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller.

A batch of emails that were obtained by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information Act rquest, revealed that Flax greenlighted a meeting between Lerner and Department of Justice officials to explore criminally prosecuting targeted conservative nonprofit groups for allegedly engaging in political activity.

Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee, as well as the Oversight Committee, are livid because the IRS reportedly knew since February that it had "lost" the emails, but only told Congress this past Friday.

So we're expected to believe that an agency that successfully processes hundreds of millions of tax returns every year, yet is capable of catching whether you incorrectly filled in Line 38C with a substantial rate of accuracy, and which stores all that data for years without a problem, cannot find copies of the emails of the seven people who just happen to be under investigation by Congress for breaking the law?

We're further expected to believe that this is NOT a coverup of any sort. ...

Supposedly, Lerner wrote in an email to tech staff trying to recover data from her hard drive, "Sometimes stuff just happens."
That's true. Sometimes stuff just happens.

And sometimes stuff just happens because Dr. No got caught and has activated the self-destruct sequence.

I'm thinking maybe Dr. No right now is sitting in his comfy chair in the Oval Office, hoping to God nobody finds those emails. ...


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Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away"

Katie Pavlich | Jun 19, 2014





According to a report published late last night in POLITICO, the hard drive belonging to Lois Lerner where the IRS claims her emails to outside agencies and groups like the White House, Department of Justice, FEC, Democrat members of Congress, etc. were stored has been...destroyed.

Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.

“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.

So now the IRS wants us to believe Lerner's emails were only stored on her personal hard drive? And not on a backup server somewhere? Come on. Further, why is it that Lerner has emails to employees in the IRS, but her hard drive just happened to "crash" between January 2009-April 2011 and only on the emails to outside sources?
Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa didn't buy the excuse when the "lost" emails were announced late last week. Now he's implying the emails were deliberately made to disappear, which is a violation of federal law.
"If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about 'losing' e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception," Issa said in a statement to Fox News. "Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don't just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention."
Things just got a lot more criminal.

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.

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Another illegal 3 letter rogue agency working for us, again!!!

Lois Lerner - The Dog Ate My Emails

By eaglerising / 18 June 2014 / 62 Comments


Lois Lerner's emails have gone missing due to a "computer crash." To us "normal" Americans this sounds a lot like the old excuse... "the Dog ate my homework." Does our government really expect us to continue to believe these terrible lies?


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