Posted on 06/17/2014 9:14:14 AM PDT by grundle
It’s not just Lois Lerner’s e-mails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can’t produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups, according to two Republicans investigating the scandal.
The IRS told Ways and Means chairman Dave Camp and subcommittee chairman Charles Boustany that computer crashes resulted in additional lost e-mails, including from Nikole Flax, the chief of staff to former IRS commissioner Steven Miller, who was fired in the wake of the targeting scandal.
The revelation about Lerner’s e-mails rekindled the scandal and today’s news has further inflamed Republicans. Camp and Boustany are now demanding a special prosecutor to investigate “every angle” of the targeting. They expressed particular outrage that the agency has known since February that it would not be able to produce the e-mails requested by the committee yet did not apprise the committee of that fact, and they charged in a statement that the IRS is attempting to “cover up the fact that it convenient lost key documents in the investigation.”
If Lerner is the central figure in the scandal — Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa said Monday evening he believes she was the senior-most official involved — Flax may be an important auxiliary figure. E-mails produced in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the group Judicial Watch show Flax giving the green light to Lerner’s request to meet with Department of Justice officials to explore the possibility of criminally prosecuting nonprofit groups — at the suggestion of Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse — for engaging in political activity after declaring on their application for nonprofit status that they had no plans to do so.
E-mails uncovered by the committee last week showed that, in preparation for her meeting with the Department of Justice, Lerner and one of her advisers transmitted 1.1 million pages of data on nonprofit groups, including confidential taxpayer information, to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, potentially in violation of federal law.
For those in Congress with the inability to read between the lines, there’s something in those emails to incriminate the WH. Thus all of our tax dollars will be used to cover it up.
Not a smidgen...
BS.
just ask the NSA for copies
It’s time to toss these a$$hats in jail and make them prove their innocence.
in Washington D.C. and most State Capitals, local elections and even many/most school boards..
Quite a day so far in Obama’s Amerika. SCOTUS rulings on further infringements of our religious liberties and right to bear arms and a congress that is so dysfunctional that they won’t act on criminal activity being conducted from an arm of the government that will do whatever it pleases against the citizenry.
I think the White House is trying to provoke an uprising, which they believe they can quickly suppress. They have a surprise coming.
Yes.
Oh, their disks crashed too?
What a joke.
Arrest and imprison them until they comply.
They better pray to God someone doesn't expose the home addresses of these people.
>> So basically, everyone who is under investigation has suffered a computer crash that has wiped out all their e-mails.
Actually on certain emails.
on = only
Air power.
What about it?
That is the most pithy summation; I've ever read; of America's current circumstance.
“No, I honestly believe there’s a major element of “we’ve found a story you can’t disprove and there isn’t anything you can do about it” in this. They’re smirking about it, like the movie gangster who sneers, “ya got no proof!””
Well put, and precisely correct.
“employees who are under investigation”
Isn’t destroying evidence a felony?
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