"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed."It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.”
Posted on 08/08/2014 4:10:43 PM PDT by John Semmens
The quest of those victimized by the IRS’s discriminatory treatment of conservative groups hit a brick wall when U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton ruled that the plaintiffs failed to prove that denial of access to the emails would result in “irreparable” harm.
“True the Vote,” a conservative organization dedicated to combating vote fraud, had requested that a forensic expert of the court’s choosing attempt to recover the “lost” emails of IRS official Lois Lerner. Lerner has refused to testify to Congress on the grounds that such testimony would be “self incriminating.”
Nonetheless, Judge Walton characterized the plaintiff’s suspicions as “excessively mistrustful of the government. The IRS has said that the emails in question are irretrievably lost. True the Vote has failed to produce any evidence that this is not the case.”
A spokesman for True the Vote called the ruling a “catch 22. We are denied the opportunity to probe for evidence because we don’t already have that evidence. This is despite the fact that a pattern of ‘lost emails’ amongst various government agencies is emerging. I don’t think we’re excessively mistrustful.”
Walton also ruled that “the fact that the plaintiffs are free to file lawsuits and are not languishing in some secret prison strikes me as pretty persuasive evidence that they have not suffered irreparable harm. Whether they may suffer such harm in the future is, at this point, speculative.”
In related news, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif) reports that more than 20 Obama Administration have “irretrievably lost” emails his committee has subpoenaed. Press Secretary Josh Earnest attributed this phenomenon to “extraordinary bad luck. We spend top dollar for the best computer equipment, yet this keeps happening over and over. The President is just livid about it.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2014/08/08/obama-eyes-emancipation-proclamation-as-model-for-amnesty-executive-order/
ping
pretty close
Can’t tell on content any more...
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.The line gets ever thinner...(8^D)
We are denied the opportunity to probe for evidence because we don’t already have that evidence
The ruling class protecting itself....
When the straight news gets this unfunny, it's hard to parody:
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/214645-judge-sides-with-irs-in-on-lerner-emails
Somebody needs to tell “hiz onner” that access to E-MAILS, is NOT the same as access to individual taxpayer information!!!!!!
In addition to the fact he can direct that it be a court supervised activity.
Thanks again for the ping.
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