Posted on 11/05/2014 5:43:48 PM PST by combat_boots
All of this, ALL OF THIS, is to avoid sunlight upon the reality it was the DOJ who initiated the targeting scheme, and used the IRS to get it done. In addition the White House fully knew what Eric Holder was doing.
(Via Judicial Watch) Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard computer systems for the missing emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS officials.
The admission appears in an IRS legal brief opposing the Judicial Watch request that a federal court judge allow discovery into how lost and/or destroyed IRS records relating to the targeting of conservative groups may be retrieved.
The IRS is fighting Judicial Watchs efforts to force testimony and document production about the IRS loss of records in Judicial Watchs Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation about the IRS targeting of Tea Party and other opponents of President Obama(Judicial Watch v. IRS (No. 1:13-cv-1559)). The lawsuit is before U.S. District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
I'd say contempt of court. It's perjury if someone lied about it, as in "we tried", and then it was revealed that they didn't. It isn't perjury if they didn't obey the court order... it's contempt because they disobeyed.
“I think they did a document dump on Friday”
I believe that was just for “Fast and Furious”
And yet the republicants see no problemo with giving the IRS control of the healthcare oversight in America.
Disband the irs
Flat tac fair tax whatever works
Kneel! Kneel before your government employee masters! Provide them with gifts of bonuses!
Until someone’s thrown in jail for it nothing will change.
Criminality must have consequences or we have anarchy.
I think the constant breaking of laws by BO and his minions with no one EVER being held accountable, but promoted is one of the main reasons the dems lost so big. This really resonates with people. Dems think they are above the law and this pisses regular people off big time.
Remember folks, Congress could have gotten to the bottom of EVERY SCANDAL a Long Long time ago using their Congressional Power to JAIL WITNESSES, see “INHERENT CONTEMPT” just to piss off some liberal that might read this, here is a link to a pro communist site about such powers,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2007/04/house_arrest.html
But there are numerous articles from reputable sites as well.
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