Saw where Clinton advisor Lanny Davis said it's time for an independent prosecutor to look into the IRS scandal.

Saw where Clinton advisor Lanny Davis said it's time for an independent prosecutor to look into the IRS scandal.

I see this as a political move by Davis. He needs to build some credibility before he hits the campaign trail on Hillary's behalf. Her surrogates will take some sharp jabs at Obama, depending on the audience, while Hillary tries to keep her hands mud-free.

Though worse than Watergate it still has common elements. Like going after political figures as well as ordinary people.

 

Lerner apparently wanted to audit Senator after she received an email showing that they offered to pay for his wife. She assumed that was 'illegal' and wanted an investigation. When in actuality the cost of the spouse would likely or potentially be considered income subject to taxes.

 

IRS's Lois Lerner Tried To Audit GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley | The Daily Caller

 

REVEALED: GOP Senator Targeted by Lerner | House Committee on Ways & Means

 

 

Lois Lerner's hard drive on her BB must have crashed as well....

 

 

Who else of note carries a BB in the government....

 

Blackberry faltering but still Obama?s favourite | KitGuru

Lerner's lawyer says she did not know she was supposed to archive communications in printed form and that is why she did not.

 

Lois Lerner fights back - Rachael Bade - POLITICO.com

Lois Lerner fights back - Rachael Bade - POLITICO.com

 

Excerpts:

 

Lois Lerner has no records of two years of missing emails and Republican claims that she’s hiding something are “silly,” her lawyer said in his first interview since the controversy around the former IRS official erupted two weeks ago.

“She doesn’t know what happened,” lawyer William Taylor III said of the 2011 computer crash that erased two years worth of Lerner’s correspondence. “It’s a little brazen to think she did this on purpose.”

...

 

Taylor said Lerner did not print out official records she may have sent over email because she didn’t know she had to.

The Federal Records Act requires agencies to back up all “business” correspondence — anything dealing with policy or operations, for instance. And while the IRS says it’s up to employees to print off hard copies of official emails and file them, Taylor said Lerner did not because she “did not think it was required.”

National Archives, which oversees the law, and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration are currently probing the lost emails and the backup policies. The Archivist has already said the IRS did not follow the law because it did not alert them to lost emails that could be important, which is required.

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“If somebody is supposed to keep archived copies, that’s the IT department’s or her staff’s responsibility,” he said. “If she didn’t [print] something, it wasn’t because she tried to conceal anything. … There should have been [iRS] backup.”

 

From the IRS manual (previously posted):

 

Internal Revenue Manual - 1.10.3 Standards for Using Email

 

Excerpts from this section:

 

Audience

 

All IRS employees

 

Effective Date

 

(08-30-2012) Terry Lemons

Director,

Office of Communications

 

 

...

 

All federal employees and federal contractors are required by law to preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency. Records must be properly stored and preserved, available for retrieval and subject to appropriate approved disposition schedules.

 

...

 

If you create or receive email messages during the course of your daily work, you are responsible for ensuring that you manage them properly. The Treasury Department’s current email policy requires emails and attachments that meet the definition of a federal record be added to the organization’s files by printing them (including the essential transmission data) and filing them with related paper records. If transmission and receipt data are not printed by the email system, annotate the paper copy.

 

...

 

Please note that maintaining a copy of an email or its attachments within the IRS email MS Outlook application does not meet the requirements of maintaining an official record. Therefore, print and file email and its attachments if they are either permanent records or if they relate to a specific case.

 

...

 

Do not delete a message or attachment that is the subject of a congressional, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), or discovery request or that is needed for litigation.

 

 

Emphasis added.

 

Ms. Lerner probably needs a lawyer who can read IRS regulations before making statements.

How long can Obama and his crooked Attorney General avoid appointing a special prosecutor in the raging IRS scandal?

 

The very liberal editorial board of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune believes that the time has come to appoint somebody outside of the Obama administration to investigate.

 

Appoint a special prosecutor in IRS imbroglio

 

A special prosecutor is needed to hold the agency accountable

 

The old caution against ascribing to malice what can be explained by incompetence is worth keeping in mind when evaluating a high-profile blunder in either the private or public sector, such as the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

But the latest twist in the long-running controversy — the eye-rollingly convenient loss of IRS e-mails — moves the needle from ineptitude and toward the other, more troubling end of the spectrum. While the lost e-mails aren’t definitive proof of an orchestrated effort by the IRS or the Obama administration, the recent news that thousands of e-mails were obliterated in a computer hard-drive crash in 2011 is tough to swallow, not only for technology professionals, but also for an increasingly tech-savvy public.

Americans deserve better answers than the current bitterly partisan political process is likely to yield, especially when such a powerful agency has come under suspicion. Congressional Republicans including Minnesota Rep. Erik Paulsen, along with some Democrats, have called for a special prosecutor to investigate how the IRS handled petitions from conservative groups for tax-exempt status.

That’s a necessary step, and the request should be expediently heeded by the Obama administration. Although there are two investigations underway in the Republican-controlled House, a nonpartisan review by an investigator with bipartisan respect and technological expertise is sorely needed. The public needs reassurance that the nation’s tax-collection agency is run with integrity and that anyone who may have abused its formidable authority has been held accountable.

Since when is not knowing a rule or law an excuse to break it ?

How long can Obama and his crooked Attorney General avoid appointing a special prosecutor in the raging IRS scandal?

 

The very liberal editorial board of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune believes that the time has come to appoint somebody outside of the Obama administration to investigate.

 

Will never happen, they don't want to have to investigate themselves and have to arrest each other.

Will never happen, they don't want to have to investigate themselves and have to arrest each other.

The same can be said of every administration that has ever been the target of a special prosecutor. It is very unlikely that the Obama administration will every agree to a special investigator but I would not rule out the possibility completely. If Obama's handlers are confident that Obama can throw enough people under the bus and avoid losing the Senate without ending up under the bus himself, it might just happen.

As MR has indicated. They are trying to run out the clock and then on the last day in office in 2017 you will likely see a slew of executive pardons handed out.

Since when is not knowing a rule or law an excuse to break it ?

 

January 20, 2009?

As MR has indicated. They are trying to run out the clock and then on the last day in office in 2017 you will likely see a slew of executive pardons handed out.

When a president's poll numbers nosedive with big elections on the horizon, strange things start to happen. I am not saying that a special investigator will be appointed, just that I would not rule it out.

 

If Obama's job approval ratings fall into the 30s, there will be some drastic measures taken. If Obama does not take them, then Harry Reid and the liberals in the Senate will.

When a president's poll numbers nosedive with big elections on the horizon, strange things start to happen. I am not saying that a special investigator will be appointed, just that I would not rule it out.

 

If Obama's job approval ratings fall into the 30s, there will be some drastic measures taken. If Obama does not take them, then Harry Reid and the liberals in the Senate will.

 

'Confidence' is already in the 20s.

 

Americans' confidence in Obama plummets to new low, poll shows | Early & Often

January 20, 2009?

 

Touche

'Confidence' is already in the 20s.

 

Americans' confidence in Obama plummets to new low, poll shows | Early & Often

Obama's job approval ratings are still in the 40s in most polls, including the daily polls that Rasmussen takes. The fact that people polled about the "presidency" rate it much lower than their approval of Obama's job performance just shows how many morons support him. :lol2:

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