A Congressional inquiry into the targeting of Tea Party and Conservative organizations by the IRS has revealed that thousands of emails from IRS head Lois Lerner and at least six of her subordinates have been lost to history after the hard drive which stored them was reportedly thrown away. The loss of the emails makes it nearly impossible to track down and verify what actually took place and whether or not the Obama administration was directly involved in the harassment of independent groups that didn’t agree with the President’s political platform.
Without the emails their is no accountability, despite the fact that the President Obama has repeatedly claimed that transparency and the rule of law would be touchstones of his Presidency. “Starting today every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known,” said President Obama at a press conference on the day he took office in January of 2009.
The President’s past statements run contrary to the events playing out on Capitol Hill today, where the IRS has claimed that the emails have been “lost forever.”
Congressman Darrell Issa pointed out the ridiculousness of the claims saying that such records could only disappear because of deliberate destruction.
“Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.”
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Time for Issa to put up .. He should demand the President call for the release of the documents! I do not understand why he has not taken some level of actual action against the accountability of this lawless administration.
ReplyDeleteKind of smells like ....dun, dun, dun...."Watergate". Those tapes got mysteriously erased now the e-mails got "lost".
ReplyDeleteI work in I.T.
ReplyDeleteAll companies usually keep for auditing purposes, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly backups on data tapes or discs. They are definitely lying!
The NSA should have copies of everything, or hire a hacker... They'll find the emails in about 10 minutes.
ReplyDeleteMost all e-mails are stored at the server, that is how people access their e-mail when away from home or office. They are stored at locations other than their own computer. The more the IRS says, the deeper the hole they are digging for themselves.
ReplyDeleteGeez - residents are so interested, they don't even know where to go to vote. Shameful.
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