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Lois Lerner email cover-up may succeed: Somewhere, Richard Nixon is chuckling bitterly to himself.
American Thinker ^ | 06/19/2014 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/19/2014 7:15:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Somewhere, Richard Nixon is chuckling bitterly to himself. When it comes to burying scandal, Tricky Dick was an amateur compared to the gang in the White House today. Obama and Company may well succeed in weaponizing the IRS to hobble his opposition in the 2012 election and escaping the second article of impeachment that Nixon faced.

You can forget about unleashing data recovery experts on the hard drive containing Lois Lerner’s emails – that hard drive has been destroyed. Richard Bade reports in Politico:

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.

Two additional sources told POLITICO the same late Wednesday, citing IRS officials.

Odd, isn’t it, that nobody mentioned this before. Supposedly, recycling is standard procedure for damaged hard drives, and we all know how important recycling is to Saving the Planet. Just try using that excuse, that you recycled your receipts, when the IRS audits you.

Meanwhile, the White House is claiming that they have no records of any suspicious emails from Lerner to people there. The AP reports:


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: email; irs; irsloislerner; lerner; teaparty
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To: cripplecreek

Emails are not stored on a user’s local machine. Even if you use POP to get your mail, the server retains a copy in a stub or scratch file SOMEWHERE. MS Exchange, Lotus Notes, even IMAP servers are configured on multiple nodes which are configured on hardware disk arrays with fail safes which are also backed up to other hard drives, tapes, to the “cloud,” and most major corporations, including the government, have offsite retention with companies like Iron Mountain.

This is literally one of the most misinformed, outright, bald-faced lies I’ve ever heard come out of this administration. ANYONE who knows IT to at least a small degree knows this is not true. Unless someone went around firing 40mm thermite grenades into every datacenter possibly connected to the IRS and ensured that every hard drive everywhere is destroyed, shattered, and melted into scrap, there are copies of these emails somewhere in some form that can be made readable if not already.

This is a bunch of BS, and it’s insulting to the intelligence of Americans who give a damn.


41 posted on 06/19/2014 7:42:30 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind

A coverup is easy if you’ve got the MSM protecting you.


42 posted on 06/19/2014 7:44:05 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Although there are numerous cases where they do lose our tax information we’ve submitted, then come back at you to produce it. When you can’t, because they lost it, you pay.

That’s the new rules for our government. You screw up, you pay. The government screws up, you pay. If you lie to the government you go to prison. The government can and does lie and lie and lie to you every day.


43 posted on 06/19/2014 7:46:44 AM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: Cowboy Bob

No matter what is found and if ANYONE ever goes to jail before odumbo is out of office, he will pardon ANYONE who was/is guilty. It is pretty obvious there are lots of guilty people including odumbo himself.


44 posted on 06/19/2014 7:47:45 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: Genoa

You shouldn’t, it’s the biggest part of the scam.


45 posted on 06/19/2014 7:48:17 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind
What punishment does being held in contempt of Congress entail?

It was ruled by the Supreme Court in Anderson v. Dunn the Congress has the power to have someone arrested and imprisoned for Contempt of Congress. They can do this themselves. The DOJ has nothing to do with it. There even used to be a jail cell in the Capitol Building where those convicted served out their sentence.

Congress can send the House Sergeant at Arms to arrest Lerner and the rest of the IRS goons that 'lost' the email but they REFUSE to do their duty.

46 posted on 06/19/2014 7:55:21 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: Genoa

Bingo! It never should. However, they are now or have been chasing down ALL the data/evidence to destroy it. It just has to be in several places and in several backups. The IT people should be pressured right NOW to disclose what they know.


47 posted on 06/19/2014 7:55:36 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

RE: It was ruled by the Supreme Court in Anderson v. Dunn the Congress has the power to have someone arrested and imprisoned for Contempt of Congress. They can do this themselves.

OK, so put Eric Holder in jail. He was held in contempt.

But he’s not. So, where’s the teeth in the ruling?


48 posted on 06/19/2014 7:56:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Certain members of Congress have been publicly vociferous in encouraging the IRS to investigate conservative political groups, so it is not as if we need Lois Lerner’s hard drive to “prove” something. The IRS is still intent on thwarting conservative groups. No mystery there. They, along with every single federal agency, have a vested interest in maintaining/growing power at the expense of taxpayers. If it requires a recycled hard drive along the way, then so be it.


49 posted on 06/19/2014 7:56:26 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Even the compassion of the wicked is cruel.)
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To: cripplecreek

For sure, and even the NSA, should have copies.


50 posted on 06/19/2014 7:56:51 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: fwdude
So, the dog that “ate Lois’s homework” has been euthanized and cremated?

The way I'm seeing it is that the dog that ate Lois' homework took a dump, and then ate its own feces. Then Obama cooked and ate the dog. ;-)
51 posted on 06/19/2014 7:58:40 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: SeekAndFind

It will take a whistleblower with copies of the emails to get things started. Not an impossibility.


52 posted on 06/19/2014 8:00:04 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: SeekAndFind
It would be laughable if wasn't for the fact that the federal government has reduced its credibility to that of a farcical third world dictatorship. At some point, the states just need to shut down the federal government, and start over. Maybe the next government will actually abide by its constitutional obligations.
53 posted on 06/19/2014 8:01:51 AM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: servantboy777

“Now, folks should swamp congressional phone lines to call for the abolition of the IRS all together.

This un-American agency should never ever again be allowed to strong arm another American citizen.”

Amen!!!! Lets get to the root of the problem, and abolish the IRS altogether, but lets also hold this administration accountable for impeachable crimes while we are at it!


54 posted on 06/19/2014 8:02:25 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
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To: SeekAndFind
OK, so put Eric Holder in jail. He was held in contempt. But he’s not. So, where’s the teeth in the ruling?

Congress has the power but the GOP Leadership won't use it.

They may or may not be in cahoots with the Obama Regime but the results are just the same.

55 posted on 06/19/2014 8:03:33 AM PDT by Count of Monte Fisto (The foundation of modern society is the denial of reality.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Her emails might have been CCed and BCCed to other employees at the IRS.


56 posted on 06/19/2014 8:03:59 AM PDT by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Logical me
F&F, open borders, Benghazi, IRS, outing of CIA station chief . . . plus whatever I've forgotten.

Add in Obama's wholesale rewriting of some laws and refusal to enforce others.

America may never recover.

If no one goes to prison for these crimes, America will not recover, for it means the people don't care enough to keep free government. It means we've joined the list of innumerable nations that rule through force and fear, and not the consent of the governed.

57 posted on 06/19/2014 8:07:29 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th. Article V.)
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To: Count of Monte Fisto

RE: Congress has the power but the GOP Leadership won’t use it.

Here’s another question, if you were held in contempt of Congress and they really DID use their powers to jail, does Senate have any say on it?


58 posted on 06/19/2014 8:10:15 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: lodi90

True, but if the arbiters of popular opinion, the mainstream media, were going after Obama, then trust me, the GOP would scrounge up some courage. Conversely, if they hadn’t had the support of the same media, I doubt the Dems, even back then, would have been so bold in challenging him.


59 posted on 06/19/2014 8:17:06 AM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: SecondAmendment
Any large organization has multiple backups of e-mails, etc on different servers, but the Republicans are instead giving the Dem's cover for CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.

The Republicans dislike the Tea Party as much as the Dems. With few exceptions, they don't really want those emails.

60 posted on 06/19/2014 8:22:05 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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