The IRS may be in deep $hit

[WVPATX]

Two Inspectors General believe their may be criminal wrongdoing at the IRS in attempting to hide Lois Lerner's e-mails from Congressional investigators. Koskinen, head of the IRS, testified under oath that the e-mails could not be retrieved. The Inspectors discovered that not one IT person was asked to try and retrieve those e-mails. 33,000 emails have been recovered likely with more to come.

Washington Post

 

[WVUCOOPER]

The IRS isn't in deep anything...

Certain employees may be in legal trouble.

 

[Walter Brennaneer]

Not a Smidgen of corruption.

OK then!

 

[WhiteTailEER]

Corruption in DC????


Say it aint so Joe, say it aint so

 

[orlando eer]

Re: The IRS isn't in deep anything...

and deservedly so. The agencies should not be used as wings of the political party for retribution against political opponents.

 

[wvpack]

I guess a presidential pardon can not happen if a trial hasn't

happened by the time the President leaves office. The slowness of discovery may lead to actual jail sentences. When is the last time something like that happened when a Presidential pardon is not an option.

 

[WVPATX]

Re: The IRS isn't in deep anything...

You have no idea how far this goes or doesn't go. Employees act on orders. Who gave those orders? Was this coordinated with the White House? This thing smells to high heaven. Lerner's e-mails "disappear" and her hard drive crashes as well? Odds of both occuring are astronomical.

And yes, the IRS is in deep trouble. If criminal activity occurred, what little trust that remains with the American people will be gone. The one agency that frightens everyone is the IRS. If they targeted individuals and organizations illegally, I expect Americans would more willingly support legislation that might eliminate most of the IRS such as a flat tax system, perhaps even a national sales tax.

 

[WVPATX]

Richard Nixon only thought about using the IRS to

go after political enemies. This administration achieved it.

 

[bornaneer]

Stashed away in Martinsburg**

wvu

 

[WVUCOOPER]

Re: The IRS isn't in deep anything...

 

[mneilmont]

Hillary, have you ever


illegally looked at tax returns of people in the opposing party?

 

[EEResistable]

Nothing will come of this.

Zero.

 

[MountainBill]

It appears they may have stolen an election from Romney


using the IRS to shut down their campaign push.

 

[WVPATX]

Re: It appears they may have stolen an election from Romney

There is no question it had an impact. Literally hundreds of organizations were left without a legal status and unable to raise funds.

 

[MountainBill]

Obviously that statement only works for one party


The dems or progressives can and have used whatever it takes.

 

[mneilmont]

Re: Nothing will come of this.


Sit back. Give us a new sheriff.

 

[Round Hillbilly]

Re: The IRS isn't in deep anything...


"Lerner's e-mails "disappear" and her hard drive crashes as well? Odds of both occuring are astronomical"

wtf is the irs using windows for workgroups on a bunch of 386DX's? its total bullshit from the beginning...they probably use roaming profiles, which means that everything is not saved to the local workstation but to probably a server array of sorts. even if the servers crashed, they can back up everything for X number of days and restore at will. the mere fact that they are painting this as some sort of tech failure, in this day and age, is insanely stupid and incriminating to anyone who uses this type of excuse. nothing may come of this, but what the irs did was politically motivated, wrong, and criminal.