Thread: Rush Limbaugh: Lois Lerner Unwittingly Reveals IRS Instant Messaging System

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Lois Lerner was caught warning other IRS workers to be careful what they put in their e-mails because they might end up being seen. They might end up being subpoenaed so be careful what you put in your e-mails. And nobody, up until that moment, knew the IRS had its own private IM system.



Lois Lerner Unwittingly Reveals IRS Instant Messaging System
RUSH: The bottom line to this is that all this talk about how the IRS has been...
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Lois Lerner Unwittingly Reveals IRS Instant Messaging System

July 10, 2014


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RUSH: Lois Lerner has unwittingly revealed that the IRS had an internal instant messaging system above and beyond their e-mail system. So when she says that the dog ate her e-mails and that the computer crashed and it had seven months of e-mails or seven, whatever, however many disappeared, I don't remember 'cause it was bogus, it doesn't matter.
It turns out that the IRS has this internal messaging system sort of like the old prof notes in the old, old days of the Iran-Contra crisis. Old Microsoft stuff. I don't know what it is, but it was above and beyond e-mail and Lois Lerner was caught warning other IRS workers to be careful what they put in their e-mails because they might end up being seen. They might end up being subpoenaed so be careful what you put in your e-mails. And nobody, up until that moment, knew the IRS had its own private IM system.



Now, this is pretty amazing for several reasons. First, it shows that Lois Lerner was very concerned about what Congress might find in her e-mails and in her colleagues' e-mails and in her instant messages. This idea that, "There's nothing to hide, the server just crashed. I heard a guy on the radio, Limbaugh says it happens, and it happened to me." Yeah, well, it doesn't happen to this degree to anybody. Not this many servers, not this many different e-mails crash at the same time. Anyway, she was very concerned about what Congress might find. Therefore she was making efforts to hide what was in those e-mails, and she was warning her colleagues to be very careful about what they put in the e-mails.
So they're trying to hide things, there's no question. And she was concerned immediately after the inspector general at the IRS unearthed that they were targeting Tea Party people. Ms. Lerner was clearly concerned Congress would be able to search her e-mails and her instant messages, and when she was told that the instant messages were not automatically saved, she was relieved. Secondly, there's a story in Politico about this, and they mention in passing Congress didn't even know about the instant message system. Nobody did. She inadvertently revealed it.
So the bottom line to this is that all this talk about how the IRS has been thoroughly investigated, it's complete hogwash. It has not been thoroughly investigated because she just inadvertently admitted there's an entirely separate communication system internal in the IRS. Also note that we were not told whether any of the IMs have been preserved or not. And lastly, this smug commissioner, this John Koskinen fellow, he told Congress yesterday that he didn't know a thing about the IRS instant messaging system.



Hey, why would anybody think he would know? He's the commissioner. Instant message systems, that's the IT department, why would I know about any of that? That's so down the food chain I can't be distracted with details like that. Well, what does he know anything about? Bear in mind we were just told yesterday the IRS made $106 billion in fraudulent payments under his watch. I don't know what this guy does all day, but, by definition, by his own admission, he doesn't know anything.
He said (paraphrasing), "Hell, I just got here. I haven't been here all that long. This stuff all happened before I got here." This Regime is filled with a bunch of selfish children. They're all Bart Simpson. "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me. You can't prove anything." It all happened before they got there. Nobody, nobody, from Obama on down, wants to take any accountability for anything that happened.
Now, I understand this because they're trying to hide things that they're doing, they don't want people to know about. And they are utterly, apparently, very willing to portray themselves as incompetent fools in order to continue getting away with covering up what they're really doing, which ought to make everybody suspicious.
Most people are not willing to make themselves look like abject idiots. But the people in this administration don't care. If that will get them out of a tight spot, they're happy to be thought of as lamebrains, or inexperienced, or hapless, or, "Gee, we didn't know. We didn't know we had an instant messaging system in here." In normal circumstances this wouldn't even be close to being over. We will just have to see.
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Lois Lerner Caught Red-Handed: One-Worded Email Proves She’s Guilty

in News, Opinion, Politics / by Dom the Conservative / on July 10, 2014 at 4:50 pm /



Lois Lerner won’t be able to “plead the 5th” if she continues to self-incriminate, and it probably won’t matter anyway. With the majority of Americans believing the IRS purposefully deleted incriminating emails regarding the targeting of Tea Party groups, pressure is on Congress to act.
Emails between Lerner and Maria Hooke, the Director of Business Systems Planning for Tax Exempt & Government Entities, and Nanette Downing, the Director of Exempt Organizations Examinations, have been recovered.
Lerner, who claims she “lost” her hard drive containing any copies of emails involving the issue, was actually concerned that someone could be saving said emails. She was particularly afraid that her messages could be traced, and wanted to make sure the IRS’ internal messaging system was set to make sure her emails couldn’t not be stored or recovered.

Lerner sent the following to Hooke:


Hooke responded:

Lerner responds, “Perfect.”

Common sense tells us that someone with nothing to hide hides nothing. So, what does Lerner have to hide? Well, considering she said that it’s “perfect” that her messages couldn’t be recovered, that’s evidence enough that she’s been less than truthful. Too bad her “perfect” plan was flawed.

http://madworldnews.com/lois-lerner-...s-shes-guilty/

go get sluggo and lock her ass up.... there's more coming

Lois Lerner email warns IRS colleagues to hide info from Congress



Lois Lerner email warns colleagues to hide info from Congress. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Joe Newby
Policy & Issues Examiner

July 9, 2014

On Wednesday, the Washington Times reported that a newly-released email from embattled former IRS employee Lois Lerner warns fellow colleagues at the agency to “be cautious” about what they say in emails in the event of Congressional scrutiny.
“I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress ask asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails — so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails,” she wrote in a message dated April 9, 2013. In short, Lerner was warning colleagues to basically hide information members of Congress could use.
According to the Times, Lerner's message came just two weeks after the agency's internal auditor released a report accusing the IRS of targeting conservative and Tea Party organizations for extra scrutiny. A month later, Stephen Dinan said, Lerner planted a question at a conference to reveal the scandal.
The House oversight committee received the email last week -- more than a year after it was first sought by lawmakers looking into the scandal. Republican say the email proves Lerner knew Congress would investigate the targeting and attempted to hide information.
"Ms. Lerner’s emails have become a major scandal in and of themselves after the IRS revealed that her computer hard drive crashed in 2011, causing the agency to lose thousands of her messages," Dinan said. The IRS tried to retrieve the information, Dinan added, but were unable to. GOP lawmakers questioned the timing of the reported crash, and many found the IRS' explanations wanting.
IRS policy, Dinan added, was to print out emails as part of the public record, but William W. Taylor III, Lerner's attorney, told Politico she didn’t know about the requirement and didn’t print out any emails. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, however, told Congress he though she had printed out some emails.
Taylor, however, made a somewhat different statement Wednesday, blaming a "misunderstanding."
“During her tenure as director of Exempt Organizations, she did print out some emails, although not every one of the thousands she sent and received,” he said. “The facts are that Ms. Lerner did not destroy any records subject to the Federal Records Act, she did not cause the computer assigned to her to fail, and she made every effort to recover the files on the computer."
The American Center for Law and Justice, however, said the email proves Lerner and others at the IRS were in full cover-up mode. The ACLJ also observed that Koskinen, when asked, was completely unaware of the email and the internal messaging system Lerner inquired about.
"The deeper this investigation goes the worse it gets, and it’s going to get a lot worse. The IRS targeted conservatives, and then it tried to cover its tracks. This is a real scandal, the likes of which we may have never seen before," the ACLJ said.

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SMOKING GUN -- Internal 'IM' Shows Lois Lerner Warned IRS Employees To Hide Information From Congress As Tea Party Scandal Broke…

July 09, 2014/ RedFlag



And yet Obama continues to insist this isn’t a scandal. 'Not a smidgen.' (Weasel Zippers)

Via Washington Times:

A newly released email from former IRS employee Lois G. Lerner, sent just as the tea party targeting scandal was erupting, warned colleagues to “be cautious” about what information they put in emails because it could be turned over to Congress.
“I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress ask asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails — so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails,” Ms. Lerner wrote in an April 9, 2013, message.
The message came less than two weeks after the IRS’s internal auditor shared a draft report with the agency accusing it of targeting tea party and conservative groups. A month after the email, Ms. Lerner would plant a question at a conference to reveal the scandal, just before the inspector general’s report was made public.
The email was turned over to the House oversight committee last week, more than a year after lawmakers sought it as part of their investigation into the IRS targeting.
Republicans said the email shows Ms. Lerner was aware Congress was probing the agency and that she was preparing to intentionally hide agency discussions from lawmakers.
Ms. Lerner’s emails have become a major scandal in and of themselves after the IRS revealed that her computer hard drive crashed in 2011, causing the agency to lose thousands of her messages.

Keep reading…

http://www.redflagnews.com/headlines...-scandal-broke

BUSTED: Some Of Lois Lerner’s Incriminating Emails Recovered

Dom The Conservative •07/10/2014 News, Opinion

Lois Lerner won’t be able to “plead the 5th” if she continues to self-incriminate, and it probably won’t matter anyway. With the majority of Americans believing the IRS purposefully deleted incriminating emails regarding the targeting of Tea Party groups, pressure is on Congress to act.
Emails between Lerner and Maria Hooke, the Director of Business Systems Planning for Tax Exempt & Government Entities, and Nanette Downing, the Director of Exempt Organizations Examinations, have been recovered.
Lerner, who claims she “lost” her hard drive containing any copies of emails involving the issue, was actually concerned that someone could be saving said emails. She was particularly afraid that her messages could be traced, and wanted to make sure the IRS’ internal messaging system was set to make sure her emails couldn’t not be stored or recovered.

Lerner sent the following to Hooke:


Hooke responded:

Lerner responds, “perfect.”

Common sense tells us that someone with nothing to hide hides nothing. So, what does Lerner have to hide? Well, considering she said that it’s “perfect” that her messages couldn’t be recovered is evidence enough that she’s been less than truthful. Too bad her “perfect” plan was flawed.

http://universalfreepress.com/busted...ils-recovered/