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Here’s how the IRS lost emails from key witness Lois Lerner (media in full coverup mode)
WaPo ^

Posted on 06/17/2014 8:50:25 PM PDT by chessplayer

On Friday, the Internal Revenue Service informed Congressional investigators that it could not recover two years of emails from Lois Lerner, the former head of the agency's tax-exempt status department. Lerner has been at the center of the investigation into how and why the IRS applied additional scrutiny to the tax-exempt applications of Tea Party-affiliated organizations.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: directory; email; folder; irs; irsscandals; irsteapartyscandal; lerneremails; posix; primitive; syscall; tech
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1 posted on 06/17/2014 8:50:25 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: chessplayer

From whom are they covering it up? The cops?


2 posted on 06/17/2014 8:53:58 PM PDT by DManA
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3 posted on 06/17/2014 8:56:37 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: chessplayer

This thing really, really, smells.

Just saying.


4 posted on 06/17/2014 8:57:06 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: chessplayer

I’d bet only a few exist who are stupid enough to believe this smoldering cowflop...


5 posted on 06/17/2014 8:57:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: chessplayer

Subpoena all the emails from others during this same period of time, if hers are the only ones missing, then claim BS.


6 posted on 06/17/2014 8:57:48 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: dragnet2
I’d bet only a few exist who are stupid enough to believe this smoldering cowflop...

Probably true, but many others just put their heads in the sand, or maybe they put their heads up somewhere else, that I will not name at the moment, but they don't care, as long as they get their welfare checks, food stamps and Obama phones.

7 posted on 06/17/2014 9:03:40 PM PDT by Mark17 ( Rudyard Kipling: it is unhealthy, for evil doers, to awaken the sleeping Saxon, and torque his jaws)
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To: chessplayer

Subpoena White House emails from/to Lerner. Bet they have been wiped from the WH computers, too...


8 posted on 06/17/2014 9:04:57 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: dragnet2

“I’d bet only a few exist who are stupid enough to believe this smoldering cow flop..”

There is one group who will hold up their arms next to Obama’s face on TV when he’s lying to them, compare the color, and say yup! das my boy! Now send me summoe O’ dat “free $hit! I be right back jus as soon as I commit some sort of crime, sep’ ifn’ I be gettn’ shot!


9 posted on 06/17/2014 9:08:02 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: chessplayer
So, in addition to being a presstitute, the author of this swill, Philip Bump, was a "Senior Designer" at Adobe Systems.

You know, Adobe, that RAM-sucking hog POS that I won't allow on any of my machines or my friends' machines...

Hey. Phil - when I want your opinion on a computer issue, I'll beat it out of you with a nail-studded baseball bat.

K?

10 posted on 06/17/2014 9:08:15 PM PDT by kiryandil (turning Americans into felons, one obnoxious drunk at a time (Zero Tolerance!!!))
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To: chessplayer

I was around 21-22 years old in ‘73, ‘74

The Watergate hearings were on the telly 24/7.

GREAT Entertainment.

I was hoping for the same diversion this Summer.

But, alas, the MSM ain’t what it used to be.

I’m stuck with “The Rifleman”

On METV..........


11 posted on 06/17/2014 9:09:29 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: chessplayer

If only the Pubbies would refute this garbage. Doesn’t look like that’s going to happen :(


12 posted on 06/17/2014 9:11:46 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: doc1019

http://m.nationalreview.com/corner/380576/irs-has-lost-more-e-mails-eliana-johnson


13 posted on 06/17/2014 9:15:59 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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To: OrioleFan
Subpoena White House emails from/to Lerner. Bet they have been wiped from the WH computers, too...

Lerner. Lois Lerner?

Never heard of her.

14 posted on 06/17/2014 9:16:59 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: chessplayer
Hypothetically, if this were a conspiracy, one suspects that it would involve quite a few folks, and even more (perhaps many, many more) would know about it.

If this were the case, might there be a footrace by some "in the loop" to contact the authorities in order to secure a plea deal?

Don't know, just guessing here.

.

15 posted on 06/17/2014 9:20:11 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
What really smells is how all the institutions that are in place to protect Americans are lining up to support this obvious lie.

Everyone has abandoned their true common sense in order to protect Obama.

It's almost as if there is no crime anymore that our media is willing to hold a politician accountable for.

And... they are willing to turn on any ordinary citizen who yearns for the old days of the rule of law.

-PJ

16 posted on 06/17/2014 9:27:52 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: OrioleFan
Subpoena White House emails from/to Lerner.

Executive Privilege... just like they claimed on 'Fast and Furious' after they said the 'Executive' had no involvement.

Laws don't mean squat anymore. These people will do what ever the hell they feel like doing. Challenge them, and you get hit with the Race Card and Crissy Mathews dog whistles which only he can hear.

We're screwed. The mainstream won't do their job. Most people don't give a damn just as long as the checks keep coming.

17 posted on 06/17/2014 9:30:57 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: chessplayer; ShadowAce
This article is garbage. One of the sentences reads:

If the mailbox got too big, email would need to be deleted or moved to a local folder on the user's computer.

Note the use of the term "folder". That's an end-user syntactic sugary term, abhorred by anyone who's actually aware of computing technology. The proper term was, is and will always be "directory". The system call primitive is, of course, "opendir(2)", specified by POSIX 1-2001. A manpage states:

The opendir() function opens a directory stream corresponding to the directory name, and returns a pointer to the directory stream. The stream is positioned at the first entry in the directory.

Yes, it's a subtle thing but is calls into question the credibility of the entire piece. The author, Philip Bump, writes about politics for The Fix. He previously wrote for The Wire, the news blog of The Atlantic magazine. He has contributed to The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Daily, and the Huffington Post. Philip is based in New York City. That leftist has no clue and obviously suffered a severe bump on his little head.

18 posted on 06/17/2014 9:31:10 PM PDT by re_nortex (DP - that's what I like about Texas)
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To: chessplayer

The Washington Post has thrown in with Obama, cashing in whatever credibility it earned running Nixon out of town, for better or worse.

They’ve reduced themselves to actively protecting a tinpot dictator.

Look at it this way.

If any American worker at any American company got hauled into court and told a judge that he’d ‘lost’ all of his emails, the IT director would, under subpoena, be able to produce tens if not hundreds of copies of each email. Pretty quick.

Those emails will be found. They’ll be challenged eight ways to Sunday, and it’ll be like Broward County in December of 2000. And it’ll be 2018 by the time we know whatever we’re supposed to know...

But by then we’ll be overrun by the Children of La Raza, and the leader of ISIS will be seeing us in New York.


19 posted on 06/17/2014 9:40:09 PM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: Political Junkie Too
Since it is impossible for the IRS to have "lost" the emails, the lie is transparently and deliberately obvious.

This lie serves the purpose of showing Congress and, by extension, the nation how impotent they are. It's defiantly taunting them to do something about it and Republicans are understandably reluctant to join a battle they can't win; they have, after all, proven themselves cowards already.

20 posted on 06/17/2014 9:55:26 PM PDT by stormhill
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