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Old 11-22-2014, 09:12   #46
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Federal watchdogs uncover thousands of lost Lerner emails

Then you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

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As many as 30,000 lost emails from Lois Lerner -- the ex-IRS official at the center of the agency's targeting scandal -- have been recovered by federal investigators.

The IRS has already turned over thousands of Lerner emails to congressional investigators but has said the remainder are gone forever because Lerner’s hard-drive crashed in 2011. And in June, agency Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress that back-up tapes containing the missing emails had been destroyed.

“The IRS has continually dragged its feet, changed its story, and been less than forthcoming with information related to its egregious violation of Americans’ First Amendment rights,” said Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has spearheaded congressional probes on the issue.

“These e-mails are long overdue, and underscore again why we need a special prosecutor to conduct an unhindered investigation. Hopefully these e-mails will help us get to the truth,” he continued.
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Old 11-22-2014, 11:36   #47
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they just now surfaced as it takes a long time to scrub 30K e-mails. Gotta get rid of the incriminating ones don't you know.

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Old 11-22-2014, 12:03   #48
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In my previous life, we were able to extract encrypted data from heavily damaged and formatted drives. Aside from that, federal regs require quite a bit of redundancy as far as data retention is concerned. It shouldn't be too big of a deal to connect all those dots. Yeah, I know, I'm taking a lot for granted. Things such as integrity, honesty and transparency come to mind. Regarding those regs, they're only good if they're followed and/or not altered by the powers that be. I am not holding my breath. I found the timing (post-elections) to be quite telling of this little discovery. Maybe I'm a bit of a dreamer as I am hopeful that she (and others) will be indicted over this...and even if so, they'll just be one pardon away from this tiny little matter being swept underneath the rug of the most transparent govt we've ever known. FML

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Old 02-27-2015, 11:52   #49
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Here's the latest. Lois Lerner and her friends in the IRS and WH are going down.
There can hardly be anything more destructive to our Constitution than for the U.S. Government to stop a group of American citizens, in this case conservative grass roots groups from exercising their free political speech rights under Barry's directive.

“There is potential criminal activity,” Treasury Deputy Inspector General Timothy Camus told the House Oversight Committee Thursday.

One of the emails disclosed to the public has Lerner telling another IRS official, “No one will ever believe that both your hard drive and mine crashed within a week of each other.”
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Old 02-27-2015, 11:58   #50
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Given Dean Jarvis' post above this is better placed here (I posted in another old IRS thread). Apologies.

This type of behavior by bureaucrats is sufficient reason to be suspicious of massive government intervention in healthcare and the Internet. The affordable healthcare act will not be affordable and net neutrality will not be so neutral.

The discovery of more than 30,000 Lois Lerner emails was announced last November.

The complete article at link below discusses testimony before Congress earlier this week specifically regarding those missing emails. The very short vid at link below sums up the matter.

"Republicans at the hearing questioned why the IRS took two months to determine that it could not recover the lost records when the inspector general’s office managed to find the backup tapes in about two weeks."

Investigators probing for criminal activity with Lois Lerner’s missing emails
By Josh Hicks February 27 at 6:00 AM
Washington Post

Federal investigators are looking for possible criminal activity in connection with the missing emails of a central figure in the Internal Revenue service’s targeting scandal.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration testified at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Thursday that it tracked down nearly 33,000 emails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner.

The records date back to 2001, which is 10 years beyond what the IRS has said it could access for investigators.

The inspector general’s office said it is working to identify any messages that the IRS has not already sent to congressional investigators, who are examining the Lerner’s involvement in the IRS targeting scandal.

The watchdog agency found the backed-up emails by consulting with IRS information-technology specialists, according to TIGTA Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Tim Camus.

“They were right where you would expect them to be,” he said at the rare late-night hearing, which lasted until about 10 p.m.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified before Congress last year that the backups were no help in recovering Lerner’s lost emails, in part because the IRS overwrites them every six months.

Camus said the IRS’s technology specialists told investigators that no one from the agency asked for the tapes, raising doubts about whether the agency did its due diligence in trying to locate Lerner’s emails, or possibly greater troubles.

“There is potential criminal activity,” Camus said.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLzAQsIzKzs

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...issing-emails/
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Old 02-27-2015, 13:05   #51
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Here's the latest. Lois Lerner and her friends in the IRS and WH are going down.
There can hardly be anything more destructive to our Constitution than for the U.S. Government to stop a group of American citizens, in this case conservative grass roots groups from exercising their free political speech rights under Barry's directive.

“There is potential criminal activity,” Treasury Deputy Inspector General Timothy Camus told the House Oversight Committee Thursday.

One of the emails disclosed to the public has Lerner telling another IRS official, “No one will ever believe that both your hard drive and mine crashed within a week of each other.”



Just remember who runs the DOJ. The FBI only investigates what it wants to and what the DOJ wants it to......

You really think the FBI is going to go all in and investigate this? Along with the Secret Service who should have all the emails between the Squatter in the White House and the IRS?

I seriously doubt it. There's not a federal agency out there that doesn't have a liberal left wing "leader"......
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Old 02-27-2015, 15:48   #52
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"Back up tapes? We thought you said backed up racism. No wonder they could find it."
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Old 02-27-2015, 19:19   #53
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"Back up tapes? We thought you said backed up racism. No wonder they could find it."
LOL, read that today..... Holder is calling his f**kup's (criticism) racism. Holder, you're another moron that should be flipping hamburgers, you're an idiot and a race baiter.
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Old 04-01-2015, 16:03   #54
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Is this a surprise to anyone?

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DOJ: No contempt charges against Lois Lerner

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia will not seek contempt charges against former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner for her refusal to testify before Congress, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Wednesday.

It has been nearly a year since the House voted to hold Lerner in contempt in a mostly party-line vote. At the time, the charges were referred to the local U.S. attorney. The Justice Department officially informed House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, of U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen's decision in a letter sent to Boehner's office Tuesday.

"A team of experienced career prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office was assigned to carefully assess the referral. After extensive analysis, the team concluded that the House Committee followed proper procedures in notifying Ms. Lerner that it had rejected her claim of a Fifth Amendment privilege and gave her an adequate opportunity to answer the Committee's questions," the Justice Department said in a statement. "However, the team also concluded that Ms. Lerner did not waive her Fifth Amendment privilege by making general claims of innocence. The Constitution would provide Ms. Lerner with an absolute defense if she were prosecuted for contempt."

Congress' contempt vote stems from Lerner's appearances before the House Oversight Committee. At the start of one hearing in 2013, Lerner made an opening statement declaring her innocence before invoking her Fifth Amendment right. Republicans charge that by delivering her opening statement, she waived her rights against self-incrimination. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and then the full House of Representatives, voted to hold Lerner in contempt for her refusal to testify on March 5, 2014.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-no-c...t-lois-lerner/
... and from Col. Allen West's site ...

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DOJ won’t press contempt charges against Lois Lerner

The Department of Justice has decided it’s not going to press contempt charges against Lois Lerner.

Big shock, right?

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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia will not seek contempt charges against former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner for her refusal to testify before Congress, the Justice Department (DOJ) announced Wednesday.

It has been nearly a year since the House voted to hold Lerner in contempt in a mostly party-line vote. At the time, the charges were referred to the local U.S. attorney. The Justice Department officially informed House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, of U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen’s decision in a letter sent to Boehner’s office Tuesday.

“A team of experienced career prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office was assigned to carefully assess the referral. After extensive analysis, the team concluded that the House Committee followed proper procedures in notifying Ms. Lerner that it had rejected her claim of a Fifth Amendment privilege and gave her an adequate opportunity to answer the Committee’s questions,” the Justice Department said in a statement. “However, the team also concluded that Ms. Lerner did not waive her Fifth Amendment privilege by making general claims of innocence. The Constitution would provide Ms. Lerner with an absolute defense if she were prosecuted for contempt.”
In other words, she did her duty for the Obama administration by targeting conservatives who opposed the president, so her reward is a get out of jail free card.

This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most corrupt administration to ever sit in the White House.

There’s a message the federal government is sending out by not pursuing charges against Lerner, and it’s that your First Amendment right to voice your political opinions doesn’t matter.

You need to be a good little lap dog and get with the program, or there will be consequences.

Those hired to do the president’s dirty work are obviously protected, which means the egregious violations the administration carries out will likely go unpunished.

I don’t know about you, but I’m totally ready for some fresh blood in the White House.

http://www.youngcons.com/doj-wont-pr...t-lois-lerner/
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Old 04-02-2015, 08:01   #55
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...fuck you America,

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..."we" the elitists are exempt
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let them eat organic GMO Michelle approved tofu cake...
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Old 08-25-2015, 14:04   #57
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We need a Saturday night massacre; and not the Nixonian kind.

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The IRS admitted to a federal court there was a second personal email account that Lois Lerner, the official at the heart of the Tea Party targeting scandal, used to conduct agency business.

The email account apparently was set up under the name, "Toby Miles," which sources tell Fox News is the name of Lerner's dog.
Link to online article.
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We need a Saturday night massacre; and not the Nixonian kind.



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Seems like the whole dang Federal Govt. uses private email accounts .... why don't they just chat on Facebook and be done with it .....
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Old 08-25-2015, 17:02   #59
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Lois Lerner has that certain Caitlynesque look...perhaps, a TV series is in Lerner's future...a reality email theme...Lerner and Hildabeast compete to delete the most emails over a weekend !
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Old 08-25-2015, 17:05   #60
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Or a prison fashion show with their competing designs.
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