GOP: Lerner warned IRS employees to hide information from Congress

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Washington Times:

A newly released email from former IRS employee Lois G. Lerner, sent just as the tea party targeting scandal was erupting, warned colleagues to “be cautious” about what information they put in emails because it could be turned over to Congress.

 

“I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress ask 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.

 

The message came less than two weeks after the IRS’s internal auditor shared a draft report with the agency accusing it of targeting tea party and conservative groups. A month after the email, Ms. Lerner would plant a question at a conference to reveal the scandal, just before the inspector general’s report was made public.

 

The email was turned over to the House oversight committee last week, more than a year after lawmakers sought it as part of their investigation into the IRS targeting.

 

Republicans said the email shows Ms. Lerner was aware Congress was probing the agency and that she was preparing to intentionally hide agency discussions from lawmakers.

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Lyin' Lerner strikes again...

 

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Well that is not good for her.

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Well that is not good for her.

 

Oh, what a tangled web we weave

When first we practise to deceive!

 

I want to see her do Hard Time.

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IRS Faces a Judge with Integrity Today
Lois Lerner and friends will have to answer to a judge who knows corruption when he sees it.
Sidney Powell
7/10/14

Today, the IRS is on the hot seat, and Lois Lerner has added fuel to the fire. This morning, the IRS will appear before Judge Emmet G. Sullivan to explain two things: Why it failed to tell him thousands of its e-mails were “lost” or “missing;” and why it filed a status report that was demonstrably false. The case seeks documents expected to reveal the truth about the IRS’s “target hunting” of political opposition.

 

In what looks likely to be a feckless attempt to explain the inexplicable loss of crucially important e-mails that connect the dots between the White House and the IRS, we can expect the IRS to claim it was “just a mistake” or an “oversight” or “an accident” that its status report to the judge failed to mention the loss of thousands of e-mails. They may say that they were “rushed” or “overworked” or were not finished with their own “investigation.”

 

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Emmet Sullivan has seen political controversy before, and he can read the law. It’s hard to imagine anything more political than the contrived and circus-like conviction of Senator Ted Stevens. For this dedicated and principled judge, if the IRS has violated the law, that’s all the more reason to demand accountability and find the truth.

 

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Federal judge orders IRS to explain lost Lerner emails under oath

7/10/14

 

A federal judge has ordered the IRS to explain "under oath" how the agency lost a trove of emails from the official at the heart of the Tea Party targeting scandal.

 

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the tax agency 30 days to file a declaration by an "appropriate official" to address the computer issues with ex-official Lois Lerner.

 

The decision came Thursday as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which along with GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has questioned how the IRS lost the emails and, in some cases, had no apparent way to retrieve them.

 

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