Posted on 06/27/2014 3:33:17 PM PDT by blam
June 27, 2014
FoxNews.com
An industry group is claiming the IRS should have kept full records of its apparent destruction of ex-official Lois Lerner's hard drive, saying "the notion that these emails just magically vanished makes no sense whatsoever."
The latest to weigh in on the lost emails controversy is the head of the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers. Group president Barbara Rembiesa released a statement on Thursday questioning recent testimony by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who told Congress last Friday that Lerner's hard drive was "recycled and destroyed" after it crashed in 2011.
She claimed that a certified "IT asset destruction" team should have been brought in to document and complete that process.
"If this was done, there would be records. If this was not done, this is the smoking gun that proves the drive or drives were destroyed improperly -- or not at all," she said.
Rembiesa adds her voice to a growing list of industry experts dubious about agency claims that Lerner's emails disappeared after a hard-drive crash in 2011.
Lerner is the former head of the Exempt Organizations division, and is at the heart of the controversy over agency targeting of Tea Party groups. After the IRS revealed earlier this month that many of her emails from 2009 to 2011 were gone, outraged Republicans arranged a rapid-fire string of hearings on the matter -- and on the sidelines, some computer experts backed up their suspicions.
The IRS, though, insists this was simply a case of a routine computer failure -- one of thousands across the federal government. Koskinen testified on the matter twice since last week, stressing that despite the computer problems, the agency was able to recover 67,000 Lerner emails, including 24,000 from other accounts, from January 2009 to May 2013.
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Personally, I can not fathom why the Republican controlled Congress has not yet passed an addendum to the odumbocare law removing the IRS from oversight ... unless the republicants see a way they can exploit the IRS thuggery.
“... the Republican controlled Congress ...”
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The republicans do not control congress.
Picky picky picky ... Republicant controlled HOUSE. That okay for you now?
not picky
important fact
reality bites
This excuse will never work...it would be like trying to cover up the deaths of four Americans by saying it was caused by a YouTube video! It’ll never work.
They are lost if no one wants to find them.
IRS is laughing in our faces, daring us to do something about it. They know they can do what they want, with absolute and open impunity.
To quote the philosopher Burt Reynolds in an old movie of his, this isn't America anymore, its Guatemala with color television.
LOLOL! Edward Snowden could surely find them!
True enough, dear brother in Christ, as far as it goes.
And yet, I am not as despondent about these developments as much as you seem to be.
I have not given up HOPE — which is unshakeable, since God's Word cannot fail but will be fulfilled in the world of His creation.
Our common American culture — whose roots are to be found in classical philosophy as perfected by the Judeo-Christian tradition — is that which promulgates and sustains us, and our "exceptional" civil order. We are a nation "under God." He will not abandon those who love Him.
Rather, I believe He asks us to defend the very principles upon which our personal and civil order depends. And so, that is what we God-"fearing" people must do.
It isn't any more complicated than that.
Rather than imagine yourself as some kind of victim of processes beyond human control, just stand up for what you believe, to the best of your ability. And speak truth to (human) power as often as possible. That's all God asks of us.
And then, we just leave the rest of it, the details, up to Him.
The Lord works all things to the benefit of those who love Him.
Assuredly, that includes YOU.
As Pope John Paul II put it, "Be not afraid!" Christ asks us to "cross the threshold of hope" so to stand with Him....
He is our very Life. He is our very Truth. He is our very Salvation. He is our "mediator" who conveys our mortal selves unto eternal life....
Be not afraid! Be not depressed, nor disconsolate in any way! The Lord made a glorious creation, and called us to be principal participants of it.
We humans are called as stewards of what God has wrought. Not "owners"; only principled participants with responsibilities as agents of God's Will and Purpose, here "below".... That is to say, from the standpoint of our mortality....
In Christ's love and peace and light, my dear brother in Him!
Rather than imagine yourself as some kind of victim of processes beyond human control, just stand up for what you believe, to the best of your ability.
Of course since you know me you know that I never see myself as a victim. I see myself as being assigned a piece of ground and a family and an extended family which is mine and my responsibility. I feel more like Noah managing his Ark.
I have rather lost interest in politics over the last few years, as I have watched it become completely unmoored from reason and morality. I see that politics must rest upon a deeper foundation, a moral and spiritual foundation, and that this is now where the battle must be fought.
I have always been a believer, I can't remember a time when I wasn't, but God becomes more real and present with each passing year.
My focus more and more is on the things God has given me to manage (inept as I am). Politics seems like a bad TV show that I have (almost) stopped watching.
I so agree. And surely you are right in saying "politics must rest upon a deeper foundation, a moral and spiritual foundation, and that this is now where the battle must be fought."
I think the so-called Tea Party — which isn't an organized party at all — is trying to "fight" precisely on moral and spiritual grounds. And for their pains, they are equally detested by the "Progressive" Left and the GOP Establishment Right. A pox on both their houses!
So what to do? I simply conclude it's just best to "walk with God and pray." To me as for you, "God becomes more real and present with each passing year."
Happy Independence Day, dear brother in Christ!
I strongly agree with you, dearest sister in Christ! And I join with you in praying for our country.
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