[HOSTED.AP.ORG] The IRS says it has lost emails from five more workers who are part of congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status. I think we're long past the stage of polite disbelief now.
Especially since Ms Lerner's were found or something, so we know such "losses" are only temporary.
The tax agency said in June that it could not locate an untold number of emails to and from 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... , who headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. The revelation set off a new round of investigations and congressional hearings.
On Friday, the IRS said it has also lost emails from five other employees related to the probe, including two agents who worked in a Cincinnati office processing applications for tax-exempt status.
The agency blamed computer crashes for the lost emails. In a statement, the IRS said it found no evidence that anyone deliberately destroyed evidence.
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Some times under heavy medication (like now) and I see article like this, I can close my augens and see on the far horizon, a wall. A plain wall such as you would find behind a barn.
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Were this a Republican administration, the mainstream press would be screaming about corruption and "The coverup is worse than the crime".
Our press has become an information suppression and partisan propaganda device, not a free press. And shackles work quite well when they are voluntarily assumed and worn by the slaves.
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Sad thing is, civil service laws are such that in January 2017 President Palin is going to find it very hard to fire these people...
Laws? The Precedent has set the stage, who needs laws. Whomever the next president is, need only issue their decree. Besides, the president is the Chief Executive, and these agencies fall under the Executive Branch.
Voila! Massive headcount reduction, lock them out of their email, take their stinkin' badges and start the prosecutions.
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Didn't Reagan fire the striking air controllers? There is precedent.
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Raj: attorneys must deliberately choose to change their status from active to inactive, and must still pay bar dues - typically because they are not practicing law and are not seeking to return to the active practice of law anytime soon. It's just a box you check on your dues statement every year.
Not to defend Lerner, but going inactive is common when lawyers work in non-lawyer positions, and nothing can be read into it.
Disciplined or disbarred, well, that is different.
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The formalized changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in December 2006 and in 2007 effectively forced civil litigants into a compliance mode with respect to their proper retention and management of electronically stored information (ESI). Improper management of ESI can result in a finding of spoliation of evidence and the imposition of one or more sanctions including an adverse inference jury instructions, summary judgement, monetary fines, and other sanctions. In some cases, such as Qualcomm v Broadcom, attorneys can be brought before the bar and risk their livelihood.
The spoliation of evidence is the intentional or negligent withholding, hiding, altering, or destroying of evidence relevant to a legal proceeding.[1] Spoliation has two possible consequences: in jurisdictions where the (intentional) act is criminal by statute, it may result in fines and incarceration for the parties who engaged in the spoliation; in jurisdictions where relevant case law precedent has been established, proceedings possibly altered by spoliation may be interpreted under a spoliation inference.
A closely related concept to spoliation of evidence is tampering with evidence, which is usually the criminal-law version of the same concept, namely when a person alters, conceals, falsifies, or destroys evidence in an investigation by law enforcement or by a regulatory authority. An act of ruining or destroying evidence may sometimes be considered both spoliation of evidence and tampering with evidence. For example, when police destroy their own dashboard-camera footage or seize and destroy a citizen's video footage of an incident, it may constitute spoliation of evidence in a criminal case against the defendant if the footage tended to create reasonable doubt for the defendant, and also constitute tampering if the video were evidence of police misconduct in a criminal or regulatory investigation of the police's actions. The goal of spoliating or tampering with evidence is usually to cover up evidence that would be disfavorable to the doer in some way.
Spoliation of evidence is often important in e-discovery matters, as oftentimes records in electronic form such as SMS messages may be difficult to retrieve, preserve, or monitor.
Companies and organizations often attempt to avoid spoliation of evidence (or being accused or held liable therewith) by using a legal hold. Often, the legal departments of the company or organization will issue a prescribed order to the relevant employees to retain and preserve their discoverable materials (such as e-mails and documents).
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In other words, all that needs to be done is charge all of these people with spoliation of evidence and then the burden shifts to them to prove their innocence.
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Yeah, well doggone it, I seem to have misplaced my 2014 Form 1040-ES Payment Voucher 3 for the estimated prepayment of my 2015 federal income tax, due on 9/15/2014. But they'll understand, right?
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I think it was for quite a bit of money.
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[JUDICIALWATCH.ORG] Judicial Watch today released a new batch of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) email documents revealing that under former IRS official 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... , the agency seems to acknowledge having needlessly solicited donor lists from non-profit political groups. According to a May 21, 2012, memo from the IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel: "such information was not needed across-the-board and not used in making the agency's determination on exempt status." Later, in her May 10, 2013, remarks in which Lerner first revealed in response to question she planted about the IRS targeting of conservative groups, she conceded that the requests for donor names was "not appropriate, not usual." The new documents obtained by Judicial Watch also reveal that 75% of the groups from whom the lists were solicited were apparently conservative, with only 5% being liberal.
The documents came in response to an October 2013 Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Internal Revenue Service (No. 1:13-cv-01559)) filed against the IRS after the agency refused to respond to four FOIA requests dating back to May, 2013. The emails are contained in the sixth batch of documents the IRS has been forced to produce in response to the Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit.
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What we do at Vemork and for Reich is none of your business. I refuse to discuss it.
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Legal question for the rantburg: let's say I have never been audited, I think I am on the secret list (multiple times) and now I get audited. Can I sue the IRS to prove my audit was not triggered by being on the list?
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The IRS is obviously covered by national security laws, so you have no rights, prole. Furthermore, questions like that are a conspiracy in planning so we'll RICO your home.
Any other questions?
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Long past time to dismantle every alphabet soup agency out there.
[FOXNEWS] The rise of the Islamic State threat has, in a matter of weeks, turned the 2014 midterm election on its head, leaving Democrats and Republicans alike scrambling to show their hawkish side on national security and terrorism -- shelving for now the partisan sparring over ObamaCare, and the multiple scandals that dominated headlines and threatened to define the B.O. regime.
It's going to work better than Ferguson and the War on Women...
With just nine weeks to go before voters decide the makeup of the next Congress, ISIS, Ukraine, Gazoo and Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... have supplanted the IRS, Benghazi, NSA data-gathering and the VA on the lips of candidates -- and the minds of voters.
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The Electorate actually voted Obama into Office. What does that say about the judgmental skills of the average ass-crack at Walmart?
The US will get what it deserves. And you can send Dwayne or someone with the intellectual capacity of a Biden to handle it.
Wear the Uniform with pride and your family can live in a trailer off base too.
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The Electorate actually voted Obama into Office. What does that say about the judgmental skills of the average ass-crack at Walmart?
The US will get what it deserves. And you can send Dwayne or someone with the intellectual capacity of a Biden to handle it.
Wear the Uniform with pride and your family can live in a trailer off base too.
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What does that say about the judgmental skills of the average ass-crack at Walmart?
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Hawkish side? You can't trust them. They leave people behind. They will not have your back. They will not answer the 3:00 a.m. call. They will forget the veterans when they return. The ROEs of engagement will be neutering and be determined by a "green environment" or some UN, Human Rights organization, ACLU, Washington attorney, etc. Screw them.
[Iran Press TV] President Barack Obama I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go... says the United States will dismantle the ISIL terrorist group the same way the country defeated al-Qaeda following criticism over his foreign policy.
Was Al Qaeda defeated? They don't seem to have noticed. Though it's awfully nice that Osama bin Laden is dead.
He also rejected sending American ground troops to Syria for fighting against ISIL.
"We will not be placing US ground troops to try to control the areas that are part of the conflict in Syria," Obama said on Friday after a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the cut of the American pants... summit in Wales.
"We are going to have to find effective partners on the ground to push back against ISIL," he added.
Obama also noted that his country would confront the group "the same way we have gone after al-Qaeda."
"We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL," Obama said, adding that "you can't contain an organization" like ISIL.
"The goal has to be to dismantle it," he said.
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Although non-interactive, he appears reasonably coherent, sensible and reasonable. Unfortunately he is still delusional.
[BREITBART] Thursday on "Kilmeade and Friends," Ret. U.S. Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, the former director of the CIA and NSA, told Fox News Radio host Brian Kilmeade that because President Barack Obama My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it... preferred to read his intelligence briefings instead of engaging with officials and asking questions like former President George W. Bush, it was not easy to get the assessments across to the current commander-in-chief.
Hayden said, "People like me have to accommodate to people like that," adding "my old job is easier when you are face to face," but he said, "President B.O. absorbs information by reading and reflecting."
"It was easier for the intel briefer," "when the individual engages," Hayden explained.
Hayden said, "It is pretty clear in this case" we are dealing with "the phenomenon of the unpleasant fact."
He explained that in Obama's case "you're there briefing a position, a flow, a thread, a development that is absolutely cutting across the grain of the world as the policymaker would like it to be, or he perceives it to be," he added "you're in essence telling this individual the world isn't as he believed it to be, and I think we had an awful lot of that going on."
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He's a master of fact assimilation, cortical remapping, and declarative memory. A virtual trap, his mind moves over the briefing book like a dagga cloud mist. Questions seldom arise as he is all knowing. Briefing books in Aramaic, Yupik, and Tagalog have been sent in error, he absorbs them as well. Nothing escapes him.
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I heard this morning he was getting intelligent briefings via his emails. Scary that there is a president who is so disengaged, insulated from reality--basically he is living in a narcissistic bubble. No wonder he had trouble making decisions. Although, it is doubtful that he would anyway if he had face-to-face meetings with the intelligence community. Worst president in our history. Is there anyone who was worse?
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Is it just my subjective impression, that---whenever affirmative action is invoked on behalf of a group---the worst members of this group are the principal beneficiaries?
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If he doesn't take these briefings in person he can say "no one told me. I heard it on the news". President Obama was nowhere to be found during the beginning of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in Wales on Thursday.
Obama was “noticeably absent” from the start of the meeting, according to a White House pool report, although U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute was in attendance.
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Neuroscientists the world over remain gobsmacked. His highly developed psychokinetic ability negates the requirement for formal briefings. Seventeen cleverly disguised towers constantly feed him important data. He drives his own golf cart. He is his own man.
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LMAO, B! The scary part is, if you said these things to his face, he'd likely get all bashful and self-effacing. Utterly failing to recognize the withering sarcasm, or realize he is being brutally mocked and ridiculed by a person who leaves more brains behind after a trip to the toilet.
I suspect Putin got all invadey once he realized this.
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Stonehenge followed by the links. He's getting fully briefed in transit, and will no doubt drop into the NATO meeting if something important comes up.
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
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...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...
He's a master of fact assimilation, cortical remapping, and declarative memory. A virtual trap, his mind moves over the briefing book like a 
Neuroscientists the world over remain gobsmacked. His highly developed psychokinetic ability negates the requirement for formal briefings. Seventeen cleverly disguised towers constantly feed him important data. He drives his own golf cart. He is his own man. 
