Posted on 06/20/2014 8:38:18 AM PDT by chessplayer
Current IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will testify this morning at the Ways and Means Committee, as well as on Monday at Oversight, on why he testified in March that the records would be retrievable, only to change course last Friday. Koskinen offered up his opening statement in writing, in part to suggest that e-mail should not be considered an “official record” anyway:
In discussing document retention at the IRS, it is important to point out that our email system is not being used as an electronic record keeping system. Furthermore, it should be remembered that not all emails on IRS servers or backup tapes qualify as an “official record,” which is defined (in 44 U.S.C. 3301) as any documentary material made or received by an agency under federal law or in connection with the transaction of public business and appropriate for preservation. Accordingly, our agency’s email system is not designed to preserve email. Rather, email that qualifies as “records” are printed and retained in compliance with relevant records control schedules. Individual employees are responsible for ensuring that any email in their possession that qualifies as a “record” is retained in accordance with the requirements in the Internal Revenue Manual and Document 12990 (Record Control Schedules).
He should be sitting in a prison cell in the basement of the Capitol Building.
I guess my income is not taxable by his reasoning either.
Fire the b*stard.
NOW!
We never lose taxpayer info, we only lose evidence of our own criminal behavior.
Since when is email not an official record?
Why is this man even allowed to return to his job?
Fire him now, chain the doors shut on this criminal organization.
This BS has to stop right now.
I KNEW that was coming. We are SO screwed.
The IRS loses Refunds and returns.....but they always say its the taxpayers fault
Forget firing him, arrest him.
So I don’t have to “officially” file taxes either right? I get so tired of the unethical pretzel logic moral relativists we call “officials”
The arrogance is breathtaking! I think we can kiss that “consent of the governed” idea goodbye. Looks to me like Congress has been steamrollered.
Never heard of mail servers being excluded from disaster recovery plans or business continuity plans. Congress, if they haven’t already, should subpoena the IRS disaster recovery plan. Hard to have documents crash and that should show where back-ups and archives are kept.
If two people are communicating by E-Mail and are conspiring to commit a crime, is he saying that the E-Mail is not an official record, therefore it can’t be used as evidence?
THE NSA Has all emails in their vault since they are tracking everyone, so send a discovery motion to the NSA for Lois Lerner s emails.
What a POS. Everything he said is true for any business. What business can say that it is OK not to keep emails because not emails are Official Records? Any email having to do with external entities that may be involved in litigation is an Official Record. He is a hostile witness.
I’m a RE broker in Cal. E-mails can be submitted in court and subpoenaed. They are party of our required transaction file.
Just write a nasty email to them and see how fast it becomes an “official record” to be used against you in federal court!
You could say it’s “not income”, but an equal exchange of value.
You work X hours worth Y dollars in exchange for Y dollars. No income or profit, just an equal exchange of value.
It’s been tried. The IRS won’t allow it.
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