{"id":50909,"date":"2014-06-14T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=50909"},"modified":"2014-06-15T07:56:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T11:56:33","slug":"eighteen-minutes-thats-nothing-try-28-freaking-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=50909","title":{"rendered":"Eighteen Minutes? That’s Nothing. Try 28 MONTHS."},"content":{"rendered":"

The IRS announced yesterday that it had a bit of computer trouble recently.<\/p>\n

Remember Lois Lerner? The former IRS senior executive who was accused of being at the center of a conspiracy to \u201cslow roll\u201d conservative groups\u2019 applications for tax exempt status starting around 2010? And who invoked the 5th<\/sup> Amendment rather than testify to Congress about her role in that scandal?<\/p>\n

Remember that the IRS Commissioner, John Koskinen, on 26 March of this year promised the House Ways and Means Committee that the IRS would deliver to that committee \u201cevery document the agency had which might be related to the scandal\u201d?<\/p>\n

Well, today the IRS said they would have a bit of a problem fulfilling that promise.\u00a0 The IRS now says it\u2019s missing a few of Lois Lerner\u2019s e-mails to or from people outside the IRS.<\/p>\n

How many? Well, all of them from January 2009 to April 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, you read that correctly. That\u2019s all emails to or from Lerner to recipients\/senders outside the IRS over a period of roughly 28 months<\/em>.\u00a0 A very critical 28 months, I might add, with respect to this particular scandal.<\/p>\n

Do I need to remind anyone just how much business is conducted via email these days?\u00a0 Or how much planning is conducted using same?\u00a0 Email has essentially replaced the telephone and hardcopy correspondence as the principal form of business communications.\u00a0 So yeah – this missing email is a “big (freaking) deal”.<\/p>\n

During Watergate, eighteen minutes of one of critical tape was erased due to “technical issues” or “human error” (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).\u00a0 Here, we have close two and a half years worth of email to outside correspondents that has been lost.\u00a0 I’d guess that would be equivalent to somewhere around every fourth tape Nixon made being erased.<\/p>\n

Sheesh. By comparison, Nixon and his cronies were pikers.\u00a0 Hell, there were less than 28 months between the Watergate break-in and Nixon\u2019s resignation<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The IRS says the lost email was due to a “computer crash”.\u00a0 Uh-huh.\u00a0 Sure.\u00a0 Riiiight.\u00a0 How . . . convenient.\u00a0 Looks more to me like the Administration is telling us “it’s raining again” while p!ssing on our leg.<\/p>\n

GMAFB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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