Nixon: "I am not a crook." -- Impeached for covering up a political break in.
Obama: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." -- ignored for destroying the nation's health care system.
Posted on 06/14/2014 8:28:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Writing yesterday about the IRS’s amazing loss of more than two years of Lois Lerner’s emails (“Where’d they go? They were here just a minute ago!”), I wondered in passing how the Extended White House Public Relations Office, e.g., the New York Times, MSNBC, et al. would handle the news. The Nixon White House, you’ll recall, found quite a lot of the morning’s scrambled on its collective countenance when 18 and 1/2 minutes of audio tape somehow—somehow!—went missing as the Watergate scandal unfolded around the president.
What a godsend to the guardians of our “Right to Know” Watergate was! Day after day, week after week, month after month, the front pages and editorial pages of our former Paper of Record were full of stern admonitions about that egregious abuse of executive power. You could not look at the paper without a synesthetic shudder: Reading it, you could almost hear them licking their chops as their prey—the dastardly Richard Nixon—came ever closer to his doom.
So how does the New York Times handle this extraordinary loss of two years’ worth of Lois Lerner’s emails? (“Really, they were here just a minute ago. We were just about to hand them over to Congress when, gosh darn, they just vanished. Damndest thing.”)
This will amaze you, I know, but it is true: the New York Times today devotes zero words to the story. Take a look at the front page here: Nothing. There are a couple of articles about Iraq’s descent into chaos—Iraq, the country whose transformation Joe Biden, in 2010, called one of the “greatest achievements” of the Obama administration. “I’ve been there 17 times now,” the vice president told Larry King. “I know every one of the major players in all of the segments of that society.
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Nixon: "I am not a crook." -- Impeached for covering up a political break in.
Obama: "If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor." -- ignored for destroying the nation's health care system.
RE: Nixon: “I am not a crook.” — Impeached for covering up a political break in.
Nixon was not impeached. He resigned rather than subject himself or the entire nation to the spectacle of an impeachment proceeding.
Clinton on the other hand...
This report has to be false. If the IRS is like NASA (since the GAO pretty much determines computer policies for all government agencies) the computers and servers are backed up NIGHTLY. It is literally IMPOSSIBLE for Lois Lerner’s computer to crash and lose emails. At NASA, the emails don’t even reside on the local machine. The Exchange Email server holds the emails and is backed up nightly.
Put it this way, if the emails ARE actually lost, several people should go to prison for multiple violations of the law.
But, those emails aren’t lost. Destroyed? Oh yeah, I can see that. Removed from servers and backups and destroyed. I wouldn’t doubt that.
Remember, the law doesn’t apply to Obama. He can just issue an executive order ordering all of her emails to be lost and VOILA, emails are gone.
“I am not a crook” vs “Not a smidgeon of corruption” - two years of missing emails is only the tip of the iceberg.....
Like the rose law firm billing records
“Questions for the NSA.”
Whatever the IRS “loses” is stored, FOREVER, in the files of the NSA.
After all, the NSA has searchable recordings of all emails by EVERYBODY, so that NOTHING can ever be “lost.”
A simple Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch is all that is needed.
“Maybe I am naive, but I wouldn’t be surprised if those missing two years’ worth of emails does for Obama what the missing 18 1/2 minutes of audio tape did for Richard Nixon.”
A simple Freedom of Information request by Judicial Watch is all that is needed.
Like that’ll work.
It sure worked for Benghazi.
Rogue government.
But, those emails aren’t lost. Destroyed? Oh yeah, I can see that. Removed from servers and backups and destroyed. I wouldn’t doubt that.
Yup. They will never be recovered, even if the govt let someone try to recover the. They are brazen enough to claim they were “lost,” we can be damn sure they removed them from servers and destroyed backups. Accidentally, of course. Those emails are gone forever.
The claim that the IRS "lost" two years worth of Lois Lerner's emails -- but just those with "outside agencies" is laughable nonsense because:
The "report" consists of nothing more or less than a claim that the IRS can't turn in its homework, because a dog ate one corner of a copy of it.
Anyone who buys this story is a complete dimwit.
I’m sure Larry Klayman’s fundraising mail is already being printed.
Excellent job.
Unfortunately, Clinton wasn't inpeached either. The Senate refused to act on the Articles of Impeachment prepared by the House.
Remember all the Senate RATS gathering outside on the Senate steps in their overcoats in a rally for Clinton?
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