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CNN's King: Missing IRS Email 'Makes Me Suspicious,' 'Do You Believe in the Easter Bunny?'
NewsBusters.org ^ | June 16, 2014 | Brad Wilmouth

Posted on 06/16/2014 2:43:55 PM PDT by Kaslin

During New Day's regular "Inside Politics" segment on Monday, CNN's John King declared that it "makes me suspicious" as he informed viewers of revelations that some of former IRS official Lois Lerner's emails not only went missing, but that it took over a year for the White House to inform Congress.

After beginning the segment by rhetorically asking, "Do you believe in the Easter Bunny? Do you believe in Santa Claus? Do you believe that Lois Lerner's emails just suddenly went poof?" King recalled the details, including a quote from House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp complaining about it taking so long for the White House to inform him of the emails. King then commented:

You're either a conspiracy theorist, you think something nefarious happened here, or let's assume a horrible accident happened. Waiting a year to tell the Congress makes me suspicious.

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Monday, June 16, New Day on CNN:

JOHN KING: Here's another one, sorry, I'm going to be a little flippant here, and I don't, well, maybe I do mean to be. Do you believe in the Easter Bunny? Do you believe in Santa Claus? Do you believe that Lois Lerner's emails just suddenly went poof?

Lois Lerner, if you recall the IRS story, she is the key official at the Treasury Department, the IRS, that the Republicans want to know if she was unfairly targeting Tea Party groups, challenging their tax-exempt status and the like.

Well, the investigation has been going on for some long -- you see the graphic there. Her emails from January 2009 to 2011 have gone poof, disappeared. The administration saying she put them on a hard drive. That hard drive has crashed. They have recovered some of them by searching the computer for the people she sent those emails to.

But Republicans are very skeptical because they want to know if outside people, people outside the government were influencing her to go after the Tea Party. Here's the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp. He says this, and it's hard to argue with: "The fact that I am just hearing about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable."

You're either a conspiracy theorist, you think something nefarious happened here, or let's assume a horrible accident happened. Waiting a year to tell the Congress makes me suspicious.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: barack0bama; congress; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; irstargetsteaparty; johnking; loislerner

1 posted on 06/16/2014 2:43:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
No one is that stupid.

How much was missing from the Nixon tape?? 18 minutes??

2 posted on 06/16/2014 2:45:52 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

RE: CNN’s King:

For a moment I thought Larry King had un-retired ... :)


3 posted on 06/16/2014 2:47:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Kaslin

Not to worry, the regime will make sure John has his mind right by tomorrow.


4 posted on 06/16/2014 2:48:08 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11))
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To: Kaslin

Guy on CBS bought the story hook, line and sinker.


5 posted on 06/16/2014 2:49:19 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

name change is in order - John Queen.


6 posted on 06/16/2014 2:56:01 PM PDT by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: ColdOne
"Do you believe in the Easter Bunny

Do you believe in Santa Claus?

Do you believe that Lois Lerner's emails just suddenly went poof?"

Yeah, liberal elites aren't gonna let this one stand...

7 posted on 06/16/2014 3:02:50 PM PDT by GOPJ (#2 reply spot RESERVED for Tokyo Rose comments: "nothing works - give up - it's all hopeless".)
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To: Kaslin

Liars gotta lie.


8 posted on 06/16/2014 3:09:53 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: Kaslin

King also is suspicious that Hitler was anti Semtic


9 posted on 06/16/2014 3:14:14 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Kaslin

They lost all the Benghazi evidence too. Something about all the fact witnesses dying in the compound and Seal Team being targeted as it came inland almost as if they knew exactly where their fligh path was going to be. Probably just a big coincidence... /s


10 posted on 06/16/2014 3:40:52 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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