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2014-11-08 -Lurid Crime Tales-

IRS: Um, Yeah, We Never Actually Looked for Lois Lerner's Emails

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Posted by Fred 2014-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 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.

Posted by Bobby 2014-11-08 07:40|| 2014-11-08 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Because they weren't going to turn them over anyway.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-08 07:42|| 2014-11-08 07:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Because they weren't going to turn them over anyway.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-08 07:42|| 2014-11-08 07:42|| Front Page Top

#4 Ed: You've got your selector switch set on 'double tap.'

Posted by Besoeker 2014-11-08 07:44|| 2014-11-08 07:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Directly disobeyed an order of Congress. Someone should go to jail.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-11-08 08:08|| 2014-11-08 08:08|| Front Page Top

#6 why didnt congress just approve of an external group to interview IT peeps, look for the info THEMSELVES, and then a bonus for recovery.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-11-08 08:19|| 2014-11-08 08:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Ed: You've got your selector switch set on 'double tap.'
Posted by: Besoeker

Nah Besoeker, Ed stutters a lot...

Posted by Spanky Thuth2245 2014-11-08 08:48|| 2014-11-08 08:48|| Front Page Top

#8 Ibudee, ibudee, ibudee, that's all, folks...

Posted by ed in texas 2014-11-08 08:58|| 2014-11-08 08:58|| Front Page Top

#9 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.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-11-08 11:29|| 2014-11-08 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 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.

Posted by Raj 2014-11-08 11:54|| 2014-11-08 11:54|| Front Page Top

#11 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.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-11-08 13:23|| 2014-11-08 13:23|| Front Page Top

#12 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.

But hey, rules are for the little people...

Posted by Raj 2014-11-08 14:00|| 2014-11-08 14:00|| Front Page Top

#13 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."

Posted by JohnQC 2014-11-08 15:35|| 2014-11-08 15:35|| Front Page Top

#14 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!

Posted by Raj 2014-11-08 16:21|| 2014-11-08 16:21|| Front Page Top

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