{"id":35913,"date":"2013-06-01T09:49:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35913"},"modified":"2013-06-01T09:50:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T13:50:25","slug":"two-rogue-employees-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35913","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Two Rogue Employees&#8221;, Eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally the current Administration blamed the ever-expanding IRS scandal on the actions of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/05\/15\/steven-miller-irs-employees_n_3280416.html\">&#8220;two rogue employees&#8221;<\/a>.\u00a0 Well, that number now appears to be just a little bit low.<\/p>\n<p>CNN is reporting that the true number might well be much higher.\u00a0 Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/31\/first-on-cnn-irs-collects-docs-from-88-employees-in-investigation\/\">the IRS has identified 88 employees who may have documents<\/a> relevant to the unlawful selective targeting of conservative political groups based on ideological grounds.\u00a0 The IRS has advised these employees to preserve all such documents for investigative purposes.\u00a0 Disposition of such documents now will violate Federal records laws and could constitute obstruction of justice.<\/p>\n<p>How many of these 88 employees were active participants in the conspiracy and how many may have merely received documents relating to same is not yet known.\u00a0 However, the sheer number of persons potentially involved &#8211; nearly 90 IRS employees, with perhaps more yet to be uncovered &#8211; is a strong indication that the original Administration position that the scandal was the result of the actions of &#8220;two rogue employees&#8221; is an utter canard.<\/p>\n<p>The large scope of document collection efforts is now cited by the IRS as the reason for delay in turning over relevant documents concerning the scandal to the House Ways and Means Committee.\u00a0 The original deadline set by the Committee was May 21.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.\u00a0 This could get even more interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally the current Administration blamed the ever-expanding IRS scandal on the actions of &#8220;two rogue employees&#8221;.\u00a0 &hellip; <a title=\"&#8220;Two Rogue Employees&#8221;, Eh?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35913\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Two Rogue Employees&#8221;, Eh?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,185,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}