IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, an Obama donor, told a House committee last month that Lois Lerner’s emails from 2009-2011 were lost due to her computer hard drive crashing. The hard drive was “recycled” (read destroyed), and the backup tapes were overwritten. In itself, this is a violation of federal records keeping law. Lerner’s emails were important to the House Oversight Committee’s ongoing investigation of the IRS.
Democrats rail against the continuing House investigation of how the IRS treats American taxpayers, calling it a witch hunt. No need, they say, to beat a dead horse.
Delay results from lack of cooperation of federal agencies in complying with requests, demands, and subpoenas of personnel and information to determine whether and how the most powerful, the most feared, and the most uniformly encountered federal agency has abused American citizens. Oversight could be rapid if agencies complied with the law instead of skirting or flouting it.
The persistence of the House committees continues to result in new revelations as information is finally obtained and access to key personnel occurs.
In a closed door meeting with the House Oversight Committee, subpoenaed IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane admitted that the backup tapes may still exist.
Persistence pays off for American taxpayers. Perhaps there is still some life in that horse!
Some of the same Democrats decrying the prolonged investigation are the same ones who sent letters to the IRS demanding investigation of tax-exempt organizations, and they certainly weren’t talking about liberal groups!
Just think how many taxpayer dollars could be saved and taxpayer stress averted if the rest of the federal government remained nonpartisan and didn’t try to emulate Obama’s disregard for the law.
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