IRS Targeting Investigation

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Lerner’s attorney: It was just one of those things
Scott Johnson
6/29/14

Lois Lerner attorney William Taylor III appeared on CNN this morning and among the items up for discussion was the “loss” of two-years’ worth of Lerner’s emails in the epidemic of computer crashes plaguing the IRS. As for the crashes, according to Taylor, we don’t know the half of it. As for the “loss” of Lerner’s email, it was just one of those things. Taylor omits the rest of the first verse in the great Cole Porter song, which adds that it was “one of those bells that now and then rings.”

“She was as upset as anybody else was about the loss of the emails,” Taylor said. “The truth is this was one of those things that happened — at the time she did everything she could to retrieve it.”

“That’s the story — that’s all there is to it,” he added.

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Just How Many E-mails Did the IRS Lose?

Eliana Johnson

June 30, 2014

 

Just how many critical IRS e-mails, now sought by congressioanl investigators, are forever irretrievable?

 

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As it turns out, there are actually nine employees in question, and for at least six of those nine employees, according to a reliable source in the IRSs IT department, no data at all was lost. The employees are: Nikole Flax, chief of staff to former acting commissioner Steven Miller; supervising public-affairs specialist Michelle Eldridge; revenue agents Kimberly Kitchens, Julie Chen, Nancy Heagney, and Mitchell Steele; supervisory revenue agent Tyler Chumney; technical adviser Justin Lowe; and senior manager David Fish.

 

The source says that Eldridges hard drive was replaced in March 2014 but no data was lost; Kitchenss hard drive failed in June 2012 with no data lost; Chumneys failing PC was replaced in December 2011, no data lost; Steeles laptop was replaced due to a bad display in July 2012 and all data was transferred to a new laptop; Lowes laptop was replaced in December 2012 and, though a technician had to manually retrieve his files, all were restored to his new computer; and Fishs laptop was replaced in October of 2011 and all data was transferred.

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71% Think IRS Likely to Have Destroyed E-mails to Hide Guilt
June 30, 2014

Most voters think it’s likely the IRS deliberately destroyed e-mails about its investigations of Tea Party and other conservative groups to hide its criminal behavior. Two-out-of-three now believe IRS employees involved in these investigations should be jailed or fired, and most suspect the agency of targeting other political opponents of the Obama administration.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters believe that the Internal Revenue Service broke the law when it targeted Tea Party and other conservative groups. That’s up from 49% earlier this year and back to the level seen last September. Little changed from the early surveys are the 22% who think the IRS did not break the law. Slightly more (25%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

 

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Meanwhile.........

 

 

H/T Hot Air

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POSTED ON JULY 1, 2014 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN IRS, OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SCANDALS

CLETA MITCHELL TO THE IRS: SEE YOU IN COURT

Cleta Mitchell represents True the Vote, one of the groups illegally targeted by the IRS in the scandals that have exposed the agency as a partisan operation. True the Vote’s Catherine Engelbrecht has been harassed by federal law enforcement authorities representing three different federal agencies.

 

The recent disclosure of the “loss” of thousands of emails subject to production by the IRS in the litigation was the subject of Cleta’s letter to the attorneys representing the IRS and the individual IRS defendants including Lois Lerner; Cleta sought a response to the questions she posed in the letter with a deadline that expired last week. We posted Cleta’s letter verbatim here.

 

Last night Cleta filed a motion asking the Court to order limited discovery for the purpose of investigating the “lost” emails at the IRS. Along with a set of the motion papers, Last night Cleta filed a motion asking the Court to order limited discovery for the purpose of investigating the “lost” emails at the IRS. Along with a set of the motion papers,

 

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/07/cleta-mitchell-to-the-irs-see-you-in-court.php

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I wouldn't want to be on her bad side! I see these videos of Cleta and I think..."hell has no fury like a woman scorned".