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A lot of suspicious things seem to be happening in this allegedly non-scandalous environment: The IRS says it has lost emails from five more workers who are part of congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status.The tax agency said in June that it could not locate an untold …
Continue reading "More Regarding that IRS Scandal which Supposedly Isn’t a Scandal"
"How dare Republicans harass the head of the IRS, who said that Lois Lerner's e-mails may not be recoverable, even though, as it turns out, Lois Lerner's e-mails may indeed be recoverable, and for all we know, the head of the IRS may be wrong about other things as well!"
Wow: Anyone paying attention to the Internal Revenue Service scandal has been waiting for the next smidgen to drop. Well, two more hit pretty hard this week. At the president’s next encounter with the media, I will scream collusion if no one asks him for his exact definition of a “smidgen,” and if he thinks …
And since he is a federal judge, and everything, his thoughts carry a fair amount of weight: IRS attorneys will be even busier than normal next week, because another federal judge has told them to show up in court July 11 to defend the federal tax agency. They will have to explain to U.S. District …
Continue reading "Reggie Walton Seems to Think that the IRS Scandal Is a Real Scandal"
Wouldn't it have been nice if someone like Johnnie Walters were in charge of the Internal Revenue Service these past several years? Johnnie M. Walters, a commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service under President Richard M. Nixon who left office after refusing to prosecute people on Nixon’s notorious “enemies list,” died on Tuesday at his home in Greenville, S.C. He …
I continue to be trapped in The Hellish Process That Is Moving, so blogging has been lighter than I have wanted it to be. I am hopelessly behind in some of the stories that I have wanted to write about, which is why I haven't written recently about how the IRS scandal has gone from …
Continue reading "Attention: The IRS Scandal Is Still a Scandal"
I am still in the midst of moving Hell, so blogging will remain slow, but let it be noted that the famous 18 and 1/2 minute gap in the Nixon tapes has at long last met its modern day match. A hard drive crash has eliminated all of the e-mails of Lois Lerner, the central …
I really hope for Lois Lerner's sake that she has a good lawyer: The Internal Revenue Service shared highly confidential tax information of several Tea Party groups in the IRS scandal with the Federal Election Commission, a clear violation of federal law, according to newly obtained emails. The public watchdog group Judicial Watch told Secrets Thursday that it was …
Continue reading "Lois Lerner : Civil Servant Professionalism :: Obamacare : Health Care Policy"
So, let's review the latest:Concerning the IRS scandal, we learn that Lois Lerner was "directly involved" in the targeting of conservative groups. This included signing letters that contained "a list of detailed questions of the kind that a Treasury inspector general’s audit found to be inappropriate."Organizing for Action is a 501(c)(4), which means that it is supposed to …
