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GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« on: July 10, 2014, 08:38:48 AM »
Getting deeper and deeper every day . . . 'Course, this does get buried because of the border fiasco.

GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress

By Stephen Dinan  -  The Washington Times   Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Just as the IRS tea party targeting scandal was erupting, Lois G. Lerner warned colleagues to “be cautious” about what information they put in emails because it could end up being turned over to Congress, according to an email message released Wednesday.
 
The 2013 email exchange between Ms. Lerner and fellow employees at the Internal Revenue Service also says that instant message conversations were probably never stored and weren’t checked during open-records requests — even though they also fell under the law requiring electronic records to be stored.

“I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails — so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails,” Ms. Lerner wrote in an April 9, 2013, message.
 
She went on to ask whether the instant message communications were stored automatically. When a tech staffer said no but the records could be stored if employees copied them, she replied, “Perfect.”
 
“Why did it take us this long to get these emails? We’ve been after this for six months,” said Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who raised the emails with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen at a hearing Wednesday.


The rest is here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/9/gop-lerner-warned-irs-employees-hide-information/#ixzz374JcCFav

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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2014, 09:06:01 AM »
And now, Rep. Darrell Issa knows . . . :-)

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Darrell Issa: Lois Lerner’s ‘smoking gun’ email

Rep. Darrell Issa on Thursday called Lois Lerner’s recently surfaced emails a “smoking gun” in the IRS scandal.
 
“[This is] a smoking gun, this is Lois Lerner clearly cautioning people not to say things on email and be delighted to find out that the local instant chat they have, this Microsoft product, wasn’t tracking what they said,” Issa, a California Republican said on Fox News.

On Wednesday, new emails released by the House Oversight Republicans show Lerner warning her colleagues to be careful about what they write in emails amid congressional inquiries into whether the agency was targeting conservative interest groups.
 
“I think the important thing is she was trying to make sure that on April 9 of 2013 that, in fact, her people weren’t being tracked and she was still using words like ‘caution,’” said Issa, who is chairman for the House Oversight Committee, which is in charge of the IRS investigation. “Why? She didn’t want an audit trail of what they’d been doing and what they were doing was targeting conservatives for their views, no question at all.”

I think that ol' Lois is going to become intimately familliar with the Federal statutes on 'obstruction of justice.' :-)

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/darrell-issa-lois-lerner-irs-email-smoking-gun-108754.html#ixzz374QdWrge
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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2014, 09:16:45 AM »
One tiny loose thread can unravel a whole whitewash sheet.
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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2014, 10:09:54 AM »
Of course the prezBO still claims it isn't a scandal.  At what point does something get done?    :banghead:
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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2014, 10:19:51 AM »
Lisa Jackson, Obama's former head EPA goon was busted for using Yahoo accounts to hide her email.  It's a shame Yahoo has a better email system than the federal government.
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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2014, 02:12:39 PM »
Quote from: hillneck on July 10, 2014, 10:09:54 AM
Of course the prezBO still claims it isn't a scandal.  At what point does something get done?    :banghead:



I truly, truly hope the dominos are going to start falling and his skinny ass gets jail time.  If he was convicted would he lose he president benefits for life?
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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2014, 10:23:27 PM »
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Lois Lerner’s Former FEC Colleague Has Emails Go Missing Too

The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.

The twist is that Sands also worked under Lois Lerner when the ex-IRS agent — who is currently embroiled in a scandal over the targeting of conservative political groups — worked at the FEC’s enforcement division.

In a letter to FEC chairman Lee Goodman, Oversight chairman Darrell Issa and committee member Jim Jordan laid out Sands’ partisan activities and asked for records pertaining to the recycling of her hard drive and of the agency’s records retention policies.
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This is just getting silly. :whatever:
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Re: GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2014, 10:54:01 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on July 10, 2014, 09:16:45 AM
One tiny loose thread can unravel a whole whitewash sheet.

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