[BREITBART] IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency's servers for missing emails because they decided that "the servers would not result in the recovery of any information." They admitted they had failed to search the agency's disaster recovery tapes because they had "no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering" the missing emails. And they conceded that they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because they had "no reason to believe such a system ... even exists."
The IRS admitted to Judge Sullivan that the agency failed to "submit declarations about any of the foregoing items because it had no reason to believe that they were sources from which to recover information lost as a result of Lerner's hard drive failure." [Emphasis added] Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS had previously told Judicial Watch that Lois Lerner ...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it... 's emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide catastrophe. The B.O. regime attorneys said that this back-up system would be too onerous to search.
In the October federal court filing, the IRS does not deny that the government-wide back-up system exists, and acknowledges to the court that 760 other email "servers" have been discovered but had not been searched. The IRS also refuses to disclose the names of the IRS officials who may have information about the IRS scandal, citing unspecified threats. The IRS says it pulled documents about the scandal from various employees into a "Congressional database" and that it has only searched this one "database" for missing records. Incredibly, the IRS has not searched any of the IRS's regular computer systems for any missing records and admits that it has only searched a "database" that it knows does not contain the missing records being sought by the court, Judicial Watch, and Congress.
Considerably more detail from Judicial Watch here, with thanks to Beavis for the submission.
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14 years ago, an agency GM explained to a large staff meeting how hard it would be ti find subpoenaed e-mails. To her horror, the IT guy corrected her and explained how quick and easy it was.
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Because they weren't going to turn them over anyway.
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Because they weren't going to turn them over anyway.
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Ed: You've got your selector switch set on 'double tap.'
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If the media was worth anything, they would have been on this like stink on a monkey. The press is the last bulwark against tyranny before things degenerate to dictatorship and possible civil war.
The ballot box, possibly, but that takes an educated and informed electorate. And today, that is a tough order. Stuffing ballot boxes and manipulating vote counts, etc, IMHO, is a very serious crime, bordering on treason.
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I went to a year-end tax seminar yesterday, and a former IRS employee actually defended this shit (rouge employees in Cincy, etc.). Since it was done during the lunch session, and not the best forum for pulling this clown's pants down in front of sixty other CPA's, I shot him the dirtiest look possible as I stood up, and walked out in the middle of that excuse factory. Judging from the looks I got from the other CPA's as I walked out, and a few private conversations I had with some of the others afterwards, safe to say that few, if any, people were buying his bullshit.
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IRS director belongs in JAIL under contempt charges until he and his department can A) produce those emails and B) document the efforts to do so in detail.
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If Circular 230 rules applied to anyone at the IRS involved in sending out those harassment letters and / or delaying the processing of their application, they should all be fired and stripped of their pensions.
The mood I'm in right now, I'd shitcan half of the Exempt Org. staff nationwide and rebuild it from scratch if it were up to me.
If I pulled anything as egregious like that on a tax return or an audit, I'd be up in front of their OPR (Office of Professional Responsibility) and probably lose my license for a while or get permanently disbarred.
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I'd shitcan half of the Exempt Org. staff nationwide and rebuild it from scratch if it were up to me.
Raj: And a great number of others out here too. You sound much like my accountant. I said to him one time, you are fairly conservative, eh? He said: "I like to think of myself as a good American."
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JohnQC - I had the other part of the tax seminar on Thursday. During the PM session, a guy came in from the Mass. Dept. of Revenue (I worked there for four years). Within ten minutes, half the CPA's in the room start peppering him with half-angry questions, like 'why's it take four months to process an amended return?', 'Why's my client getting audited over a $100 EITC deduction?', why's my client still getting demand notices after entering into a payment agreement?', etc. It was f'n beautiful. TKO for the CPA's in the first round. First time I've seen that in all the years I've gone to this thing.
My takeaways from all that - 1) Bring a cup next time, DOR Guy! 2) Finally, other CPA's are growing a pair and are pushing back. About damned time!
[An Nahar] Three days after his party's stinging midterm election defeat, President Barack Obama We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us... hosted congressional leaders at the White House Friday, vowing to embrace policies untainted by partisanship.
"The American people just want to see work done here in Washington. I think they're frustrated by the gridlock," Obama said in a White House dining room where more than a dozen congressional leaders were seated.
Americans would "like to see more cooperation, and I think all of us have the responsibility, me in particular, to try to make that happen," Obama said.
His guests included the incoming Senate majority leader, Republican Mitch McConnell, and Republican House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... and top House Democrat Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... were also in attendance.
Republicans trounced Obama's Democrats in Tuesday's elections, gaining control of the Senate and expanding their majority in the House.
The Republican takeover could pit the party's leaders directly against the White House. Some among their ranks have suggested however that divided government could actually work in Republicans' favor, allowing them to be seen as the party best able to govern ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Both parties are under intense pressure to ease the dysfunction in Washington, and Obama and Republicans have already spoken publicly about possible points of cooperation, including passing tax reform.
"I am not going to judge ideas based on whether they're Democratic or Republican; I'm going to be judging them based whether or not they work," Obama said.
The president, whose Democrats will be in the minority in both congressional chambers for the first time since 2006, reminded the leaders there was still important congressional work to be done this year, such as passing legislation to fund the federal government.
"My hope is that even as we enter into a new Congress, the previous Congress has the opportunity still to make progress on a whole bunch of fronts, and I'm confident we can get that done," he said.
Obama angered Republicans Wednesday when he said he would take executive action to reform the nation's immigration system, a move Republicans warned would "poison the well" for cooperation on various other issues.
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...with background music from the soundtrack of the Game of Thrones?
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President Barack Obama hosted congressional leaders at the White House Friday, vowing to embrace policies untainted by partisanship.
Codswallop. I'd like anyone to show me just one example of Obama 'embracing policies untainted by partisanship'. McConnell & Boehner better understand this is now a war, not politics.
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"I am not going to judge ideas based on whether they're Democratic or Republican; I'm going to be judging them based whether or not they work," Obama said.
Right. Whatever BS you think the public will believe.
[PJMEDIA] The following clip is from October 17, 2013. The government shutdown, during which Obama's government had locked veterans out of their own memorials and shut down self-sufficient businesses in national parks, had just ended.
President B.O. reacted by challenging his opponents to win elections.
And we responded: Challenge accepted!
The 2014 midterms saw Republicans capture the Senate, take over the entire government of the state of Nevada, and sweep Democrats out of state legislatures across the country. The GOP victory is so sweeping that it may damage Democrats for years, even decades, to come -- according to the leftists at Vox.
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Nov. 8, 2014 "Since the republicans won just about all the midterm elections, I'm gonna pout for 2 years." Obama
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Yup, I agree, the response of a eleven year old in a 52 year old mans body. Reminds me of the Tom Hanks movie BIG - When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body.
The premise of "BIG"'s got B.O. written all over it.
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President B.O. reacted
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That is one of the problems of this president, he is always reactive to political situations. He never really gets out in front of anything. He has no vision and he is not a strategic long-range thinker. He is not a chess or checkers player--or a golfer.
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Enviromentalists and greedy politicians who plan to profit from their alliance with the useful idiot environmentalists plan to take the ranch and much of Southern Nevada from the private sector and make it off limit to Americans.
Areas and Acres:
Big Spring Valley 79,958 Muddy Mountains 228,297
Bitter Spring 61,840 Old SpanishTrail 51,449
California Wash 11,998 Opel Mountains 77,410
Gale Hills / Lovell Wash 4,788 Pahrump Valley 41,770
Grapevine Springs 202 Pahrump Valley to McCullough 274,061
Highland Range 53,015 Perkins Ranch 408
Hiko Wash 708 South Bare Mountains 87,692
Ivanpah Valley 3,134 South Newbury Mountains 26,877
Invanpah Valley 289,599 Specter Hills 6,603
Jean Lake 12,692 Devils HoleHills 283,538
LaMadre (North & South) 2,431 Spirit Mountain 9,488
Lava Dune 623 Stewart Valley 5,204
Logandale 8,118 Stuart Ranch 278
Lower Mormon Mesa 66,353 Stump Spring 126,952
Mesa Milkyetch 9,183 Upper Las Vegas Wash 22,244
Moapa / Mesquite 2,219 Valley of Fire 131,378
Mt Schader 285 Mormon Mesa 167,594
Virgin River 8,500 Whitney Pockets 160
Armagosa Mesquite 9,650 Arden Sites 1,142
Arrow Canyon 2,070 Ash Meadows 28,202
Big Dune 2,456 Coyote Spring 51,528
Crescent Townsites 435 Devils Throat 848
Gold Butte 346,895 Keyhole Canyon 446
Hidden Valley 3,356 Piute / Eldorado 352,159
Rainbow Gardens 39,366 Red Rock Springs 683
River Mountain 11,029 Stump Springs 646
Total Restricted Acres 2,767,941
American people, persona non-grata:
· Closed Roads
· Excluded Trails
· Closed to Camping
· Closed to Recreational Vehicles
· Closed to Motorized Travel
· Closed to Livestock Grazing
· Restricted Human Hiking
· Restricted Horseback Riding
· Exclude Group Recreations
· Closed to Mineral Development
· Closed to Water Access
· Closed to Hunting / Target Shooting
Anyone who disagrees with these Feds will be treated as terrorists and deal with by lethal force.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
[An Nahar] Three days after his party's stinging midterm election defeat, President 
Harry Reid
Nancy 
[PJMEDIA] The following clip is from October 17, 2013. The government shutdown, during which Obama's government had locked veterans out of their own memorials and shut down self-sufficient businesses in national parks, had just ended.
