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[FONT=Verdana,Sans-serif]Watchdog: IRS workers mistakenly erased tea party emails[/FONT]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators are blaming mistakes by IRS employees — not a criminal conspiracy — for the loss of thousands of emails related to the tax agency's tea party scandal.
IRS workers erased 422 computer backup tapes that "most likely" contained as many as 24,000 emails to and from former IRS official Lois Lerner, who has emerged as a central figure in congressional investigations, according to IRS's inspector general.
The workers erased the tapes a month after IRS officials discovered that an untold number of Lerner's emails were lost. The IG says the workers were unaware of a year-old directive not to destroy email backup tapes.
J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee about his investigation into the emails. The Associated Press obtained a copy of his prepared testimony.
George says his investigation "did not uncover evidence that the erasure was done in furtherance of an effort to destroy evidence or conceal information from Congress and/or law enforcement."
Still, the revelation that computer tapes were erased after officials knew about the lost emails is likely to fuel conspiracy theories among conservatives who say the IRS has obstructed investigations into the scandal.
An IRS spokeswoman said Wednesday evening the agency had no immediate comment.
George set off a firestorm in May 2013 with an audit that said IRS agents improperly singled out tea party and other conservative groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Several hundred groups had their applications delayed for a year or more. Some were asked inappropriate questions about donors and group activities, the inspector general's report said.
Lerner used to head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. In June 2014, the IRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011.
The IRS had discovered that the emails were lost in February 2014. A month later, workers erased the 422 computer backup tapes, George says in his testimony.
The IRS says it has produced 78,000 Lerner emails, many of which have been made public by congressional investigators. IRS officials said no more could be recovered.
George, however, said the IRS never examined backup tapes that ultimately produced more than 1,000 additional emails.
George started investigating the lost emails last year after the IRS announced they were destroyed. His testimony before the Oversight Committee summarizes the results of the investigation.
After George's initial report, much of the IRS's top leadership was forced to retire or resign, including Lerner. The Justice Department and several congressional committees launched investigations.
Lerner emerged as a central figure in the controversy after she refused to answer questions at two House Oversight hearings, invoking her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself at both hearings. At the first hearing, Lerner made a statement saying she had done nothing wrong.
Last year, the House voted mostly along party lines to hold her in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at the hearings. The U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia declined to prosecute her.

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You can't make this stuff up

Sure you can. If the Supreme Court ruling today doesn’t have you scratching you head nothing will.

You’d think we were living in a banana republic.

Come to think of it……..
 

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Sure you can. If the Supreme Court ruling today doesn’t have you scratching you head nothing will.

You’d think we were living in a banana republic.

Come to think of it……..
Did you ever think that most of the country and the Supreme Court scratch their heads at you idiots?

of course you don't....you far right wingers are too stupid to understand anything.
 

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Did you ever think that most of the country and the Supreme Court scratch their heads at you idiots?

of course you don't....you far right wingers are too stupid to understand anything.

Did you ever stop to think you are the perfect demo stool pigeon? Never objecting to anything foul or malicious they do, yet calling everything and everyone who opposes your viewpoint as insane, crazy, foolish, dumb, talking point, etc. etc. etc.

Do you really think that what the IRS did was ok throughout this whole ordeal? Lying, deflecting, delaying, and now purposefully destroying documents that who the fuck knows who or what it would implicate?

But it is ok with you because it helps protect your all knowing liberal elitist party agenda....do as I say, not as I do...and you follow along hook, line and sinker.
 

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Did you ever stop to think you are the perfect demo stool pigeon? Never objecting to anything foul or malicious they do, yet calling everything and everyone who opposes your viewpoint as insane, crazy, foolish, dumb, talking point, etc. etc. etc.

Do you really think that what the IRS did was ok throughout this whole ordeal? Lying, deflecting, delaying, and now purposefully destroying documents that who the fuck knows who or what it would implicate?

But it is ok with you because it helps protect your all knowing liberal elitist party agenda....do as I say, not as I do...and you follow along hook, line and sinker.
Do I care about IRS agents looking into the tea party? No

you care about that dumb shit but seem to whistle blissfully when republican lies cause thousands of American deaths....that's ok....but this stupid thing is an outrage for you and the other wing nuts.

It is why normal people and voters run from you right wingers.....this is stupid shit that means nothing to nobody accept fake outraged conservatives.
 

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Did you ever stop to think you are the perfect demo stool pigeon? Never objecting to anything foul or malicious they do, yet calling everything and everyone who opposes your viewpoint as insane, crazy, foolish, dumb, talking point, etc. etc. etc.

Do you really think that what the IRS did was ok throughout this whole ordeal? Lying, deflecting, delaying, and now purposefully destroying documents that who the fuck knows who or what it would implicate?

But it is ok with you because it helps protect your all knowing liberal elitist party agenda....do as I say, not as I do...and you follow along hook, line and sinker.

He fits into that demographic that the Democratic need so badly.....the "stupid people". The architect of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber bragged about it dozens of times but it is so true. What these people don't understand is that the wealthy will always be wealthy, they can afford the best attorneys and accountants to get away with paying 8% of their income in taxes. It is always the middle class that gets stuck with the bill. The harder these ivory tower elitists try to level the playing field, the wider the gap becomes between the poor and the wealthy.

As long as you have MIT professors like Jonathan Gruber and politicians like Harry Reid, Obama and Hillary that gap will only continue to widen and the middle class will continue to get squeezed
 

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He fits into that demographic that the Democratic need so badly.....the "stupid people". The architect of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber bragged about it dozens of times but it is so true. What these people don't understand is that the wealthy will always be wealthy, they can afford the best attorneys and accountants to get away with paying 8% of their income in taxes. It is always the middle class that gets stuck with the bill. The harder these ivory tower elitists try to level the playing field, the wider the gap becomes between the poor and the wealthy.

As long as you have MIT professors like Jonathan Gruber and politicians like Harry Reid, Obama and Hillary that gap will only continue to widen and the middle class will continue to get squeezed
Yes, we need more George W bush, John Boehner and Mitt Romney....those guys really know how to close the gap for the poor.

Honestly, you are one of the last people here to be saying who fits into the " stupid demo". You say a ton of dumb shit.
 

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What is surprising is that you continue to show up on this site every day. Evidently you need help reading between the lines on what the majority of the posters on this site say to you. You are about as believable as akphi saying he is coming back to save humanity from Willie and Seymour's racist views.

Both of you would slit your wrists if you were banished from this site
 

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What is surprising is that you continue to show up on this site every day. Evidently you need help reading between the lines on what the majority of the posters on this site say to you. You are about as believable as akphi saying he is coming back to save humanity from Willie and Seymour's racist views.

Both of you would slit your wrists if you were banished from this site
Lmao. What 8-10 far right wingers say about me....means nothing to me. I've noticed you're one of those pussy followers that have to be liked. Probably why you're unsuccessful in life.

Ive offered countless lifetime ban bets to many of the cowards here in heads up pick contests in multiple sports.....no takers as usual. So your idiotic assertion of sliting wrists is just another swing and a miss from mountain of shit.
 

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House Republicans Considering Impeachment of IRS Head over Stonewalling in Lois Lerner Investigation John Koskinen testifies on Capitol Hill, June 2014. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty) SHARE ARTICLE ON FACEBOOKSHARE TWEET ARTICLETWEET PLUS ONE ARTICLE ON GOOGLE PLUS+1 PRINT ARTICLE EMAIL ARTICLE ADJUST FONT SIZEAA by JOEL GEHRKE June 24, 2015 9:28 PM @JOELMENTUM Agency destroyed e-mails after telling Congress they couldn’t be found. House Republicans investigating the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups are seriously considering an effort to impeach IRS commissioner John Koskinen or other agency employees for “culpable misdemeanors” pertaining to the destruction of e-mails written by Lois Lerner, the former official at the heart of the scandal. “We’ve briefed the leadership’s counsel, and I think that they’re open to it, but it’s the type of thing where this town is like, ‘oh, that’s not how we do things, it’s not really been used lately,’” a Republican member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says. “But, quite frankly, we really haven’t had executive branch officials behave this way like we do now.” Lawmakers have been privately mulling the unconventional tactic for months, in part due to frustration that cutting the agency’s budget and holding Lerner in contempt of Congress failed to speed up the glacial pace at which the agency has produced documents requested by the committee. The ultimate decision depends on their ability to demonstrate that the IRS has obstructed the investigation — a public case that might begin Thursday, when the Treasury Department’s inspector general announces that IRS officials destroyed the files “most likely to have contained Lerner’s emails” after telling Congress they could not be found, according to a transcript of the IG’s forthcoming testimony to the Oversight Committee obtained by NR. Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz, who chairs the committee, says the next steps depend on what emerges from the hearing. “We are going to have the hearing, digest the content, read the report, and then chart a way forward,” he says. According to inspector general J. Russell George, IRS officials literally put Lerner’s hard drive through a shredder, destroying it without exhausting every means of attempting to recover her data. “IRS IT management determined the extra effort to recover data from Ms. Lerner’s hard drive was not worth the expense,” George says in his prepared testimony. ‘If you have a situation where it’s fine for people to come misrepresent the facts, not produce documents, and just do that with impunity, then why are we even conducting oversight?’ That decision was made even though a technician in the criminal investigations division of the agency had “noted some scoring on the top platter of the drive” while trying to assist the IT division in recovering the data. “He believed there were additional steps that could have been taken to attempt to recover data,” George says. That was in July of 2011, before Koskinen led the agency. The hard drive was destroyed in April of 2012, according to the inspector general’s best estimate. ADVERTISING George goes on to note that IRS employees also erased the backup tapes of the server that housed Lerner’s e-mails in 2010 and 2011, though he says he “did not uncover evidence” of any conspiracy to obstruct the investigation. “[Investigators] took possession of the 424 backup tapes and determined that 422 of the 424 tapes were degaussed (i.e., magnetically erased) by IRS employees in Martinsburg on or around March 4, 2014, one month after the IRS realized they were missing e-mails from Lois Lerner, and approximately eight months after the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform requested ‘all documents and communications sent by, received by, or copied to Lois Lerner,’” George says in his prepared testimony. Three weeks after the backup tapes were destroyed, Koskinen — Obama’s appointee to lead the IRS in the wake of Lerner’s public apology for the targeting of conservatives — practically dared House Republicans to take action against him when Representative Mark Meadows (R., N.C.) asked him how long Congress should wait for documents before holding IRS officials in contempt. “I think the timeline is whenever you think you could actually sustain that in a court,” Koskinen said during a hearing in March of 2014. “I think we have a strong case that we have been cooperative, continue to be cooperative, and anybody looking at the systems we have and the time it takes would find that we’ve provided you more cooperation than, in fact, might be expected. And I think that, in fact, arguing and threatening contempt in that situation without understanding the circumstances is probably not going to be held up.” In light of Koskinen’s public defiance and the agency’s continued stonewalling of the investigation, some lawmakers favor impeachment, because it doesn’t require cooperation from President Obama’s Justice Department. “Any civil officer is liable to be impeached,” the lawmaker says. “If the IG reports that evidence has been destroyed deliberately, that would be clearly a misdemeanor.” “It’s really a test of whether Congress is going to defend its institutional prerogatives,” the Oversight Committee member says. “If you have a situation where it’s fine for people to come misrepresent the facts, not produce documents, and just do that with impunity, then why are we even conducting oversight?”

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/artic...-republicans-impeaching-commissioner-koskinen
 

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Lol, all this over conservatives looking to control elections through anonymous donations by making up fake social welfare groups. What a meaningless witch hunt.
 

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Lmao. What 8-10 far right wingers say about me....means nothing to me. I've noticed you're one of those pussy followers that have to be liked. Probably why you're unsuccessful in life.

Ive offered countless lifetime ban bets to many of the cowards here in heads up pick contests in multiple sports.....no takers as usual. So your idiotic assertion of sliting wrists is just another swing and a miss from mountain of shit.

I wasn't included in these "countless" lifetime bets, please make me an offer.

Word on the street is that the escaped convicts from upstate NY were headed towards PA this past weekend. They heard that you were heading up the SEAL Team 6 search for them and they turned north. Too bad, I was looking forward to hearing how you single handedly took them both out and held them until the authorities arrived.

Hey, not a bad narrative you can start working on and you can use it when they get caught, it is as believable as any of these other fairy tales you spin on this site
 

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I wasn't included in these "countless" lifetime bets, please make me an offer.

Word on the street is that the escaped convicts from upstate NY were headed towards PA this past weekend. They heard that you were heading up the SEAL Team 6 search for them and they turned north. Too bad, I was looking forward to hearing how you single handedly took them both out and held them until the authorities arrived.

Hey, not a bad narrative you can start working on and you can use it when they get caught, it is as believable as any of these other fairy tales you spin on this site
You mean those "tales" that you make excuse after excuse to not put up money against? Dave007 idiotic pictures have more humor than your posts. Although one if the funniest things ever here was you bashing me for not getting in a poker tournament which you yourself refuse to play in. Classic rx mental behavior.
 

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Do I care about IRS agents looking into the tea party? No

you care about that dumb shit but seem to whistle blissfully when republican lies cause thousands of American deaths....that's ok....but this stupid thing is an outrage for you and the other wing nuts.

It is why normal people and voters run from you right wingers.....this is stupid shit that means nothing to nobody accept fake outraged conservatives.

No matter what political party you belong to, this action by the IRS should bother you tremendously.
 

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You mean those "tales" that you make excuse after excuse to not put up money against? Dave007 idiotic pictures have more humor than your posts. Although one if the funniest things ever here was you bashing me for not getting in a poker tournament which you yourself refuse to play in. Classic rx mental behavior.

I have never claimed to have won $1 million playing in a poker tournament. (Seriously man, really?). I mean, it is pretty common for someone who wins big to suddenly stop...happens all the time. Show us your skills playah. The serious players would call bullshit on your lack of skills and you would be laughed out of this place, I don't blame you for refusing to play.

I could go on and on but it is clear that everyone in here has your number, it is just amazing to me that you continue to play this charade as if you are really relevant in some way. You are like the simpleton in the class that everyone just accepts and go along with him. The only difference is that the simpleton has a little bid of pride and a hell of a lot more self respect.
 

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