Tuesday, June 17, 2014
The IRS Scandal, Day 404
Wall Street Journal: A Tale of Two Scandals, by Peggy Noonan:
[T]he Obama administration is experiencing what appears to be its own Eighteen-and-a-Half Minute moment. In a truly stunning development in the Internal Revenue Service scandal, the agency last week informed Congress that more than two years’ of Lois Lerner’s email communications with those outside that agency—from 2009 to 2011, meaning the key years at the heart of the targeting-of-conservatives scandal—have gone missing. Quite strangely. The IRS says it cannot locate them. The reason is that Lerner’s computer crashed....
I haven’t ever met a reporter or producer who wasn’t a conservative who didn’t believe the IRS scandal was the result of the bureaucratic confusion and incompetence of some office workers in Cincinnati who made a mistake.
But the IRS scandal is a scandal, and if you can’t see the relation between a strangely destroyed key piece of evidence in an ongoing scandal and what happened 41 years ago with a strangely destroyed key piece of evidence in an ongoing scandal, something is wrong not with the story but with your news judgment. (We won’t even go into the second story last week, that the IRS sent a big database full of confidential taxpayer information to the FBI.) ...
The mischief of the Nixon administration was specific to it, to its personnel. When Chuck Colson left, he left. All the figures in that drama failed to permanently disfigure the edifice of government. They got caught, and their particular brand of mischief ended.
But the IRS scandal is different, because if it isn’t stopped—if it isn’t fully uncovered, exposed, and its instigators held accountable—it will suggest an acceptance of the politicization of the IRS, and an expected and assumed partisanship within its future actions. That will be terrible not only for citizens but for the government itself.
And the IRS scandal will also have disfigured government in a new and killing way. IRS scandals in the past were about the powerful (Richard Nixon) abusing the powerful (Edward Bennett Williams). This scandal is about the powerful (Lois Lerner, et a.) abusing the not-powerful (normal, on-the-ground Americans such as rural tea-party groups). If it comes to be understood that this kind of thing is how the government now does business, it will be terrible for the spirit and reality of the country.
So many of those who decide what is news cannot, on this issue, see the good faith and honest concern of the many who make this warning. And really, that is tragic.
What are the implications of this claim? It means no one can see any emails Lerner sent to or received from other agencies and individuals, including the White House and members of Congress.
And what is amazing—not surprising, but amazing—is that if my experience of normal human conversation the past few days is any guide, very few people are talking about it and almost no one cares.
- House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Staff Report: How Politics Led the IRS to Target Conservative Tax-Exempt Applicants for their Political Beliefs
- House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Press Release: Pressure From the Left Led the IRS and DOJ to Restrict Freedom of Speech
- American Spectator: Who is Lois Lerner Kidding?
- Sharyl Attkisson: IRS Commissioner Subpoenaed to Testify About Lost Lois Lerner Emails
- Sharyl Attkisson: IRS: Lois Lerner Emails “Lost”
- Sharyl Attkisson: Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS
- Sharyl Attkisson: What the IRS Commissioner Said About Those Lois Lerner Emails Back in March
- Bayou Buzz: IRS Made Good-Faith Effort on E-mails, White House Says
- The Blaze: Did the IRS Break the Law by Failing to Safeguard Those ‘Lost’ Emails?
- The Blaze: White House on Missing Lerner Emails: ‘You’ve Never Heard of a Computer Crashing Before?’
- Breitbart: Cybersecurity Expert: Lerner Excuse 'Doesn't Pass the Sniff Test'
- Daily Caller: Bret Baier on IRS Missing Emails: ‘Anybody Who Is Honest Up on Capitol Hill Would Say That Doesn’t Seem Feasible’
- Daily Caller: Issa Subpoenas IRS Commissioner on Lost Lerner Emails
- Daily Caller: White House Claims IRS Computer Crash Story Is Really True
- Fox News: House Committee Subpoenas Head of IRS to Testify on Lost Lerner Emails
- Fox News: House GOP Investigators Argue IRS Targeting Influenced by Obama
- Fox News: 'They're Living on a Different Planet': Krauthammer Slams IRS' Lost Email Claims
- The Hill: White House: Explanations for Lost Lerner Emails 'Entirely Reasonable'
- Hot Air: No One Buying Claim That Lois Lerner’s IRS Emails Were Lost
- Human Events: IRS: Lois Lerner’s Emails ‘Wiped Out’ in ‘Computer Crash’
- Investor's Business Daily editorial: Lost Lerner Emails Mirror Nixon's 18 1/2 Minute Gap
- New York Post editorial: The IRS ‘Smidgen’
- New York Times: IRS Commissioner to Testify on Ex-Official’s Lost Emails; Tax Agency Says Lois Lerner Emails Were Destroyed in Computer Crash
- Newsbusters: ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore IRS Claim That It Lost 2 Years of Lois Lerner Emails
- Newsbusters: CNN's King: Missing IRS Email 'Makes Me Suspicious,' 'Do You Believe in the Easter Bunny?'
- PJ Media: CNN on the ‘Lost’ Lerner Emails: ‘Do You Believe in the Easter Bunny?’
- PJ Media: Exclusive: Former IRS Information Tech Worker Doubts Agency’s Claim to Have ‘Lost’ Lerner’s Emails
- Politico: Lois Lerner Email Flap Inflames GOP Ire in IRS Tea Party Ruckus
- Power Line: Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer This
- Power Line: The Latest on Lois Lerner’s “Lost” Emails, With a Bombshell At the End
- Real Clear Politics: Krauthammer: Second Article of Impeachment Against Nixon Was For Abusing the IRS
- Town Hall: Krauthammer on Lerner's IRS Emails: "Nixon Lost 18 Minutes, Obama's Now Lost 2 Years of Email"
- Town Hall: Morning Joe: 'Pretty Ridiculous' IRS Can't Find Lost Emails
- USA Today: House Steps Up IRS Probe Over Missing E-mails
- Wall Street Journal: The Lois Stretch: It's Reminiscent of Rose Mary Woods's 18½ Minutes of Fame, by James Taranto
- Washington Examiner: Darrell Issa Subpoenas IRS Commissioner Over Lost Lois Lerner Emails
- Washington Examiner: Yes, We Have Heard of Computers Crashing. And No, We're Not Stupid
- Washington Post: Here’s How the IRS Lost Emails From Key Witness Lois Lerner
- Washington Times: GOP Blasts IRS Excuse for Losing Lerner Emails
- Washington Times editorial: IRS: ‘The Dog Ate the Emails’: The IRS Uses a Schoolboy’s Excuse to Escape Congressional Scrutiny
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- Attorney in Federal Agency General Counsel's Office: There Is 'No Innocent Explanation' for IRS Chief Counsel's Meeting With Obama (July 23, 2013)
- A Cincinnati IRS Lawyer Speaks: We Are Democrats, But Nonpartisan Democrats (July 23, 2013)
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- The Problem Is Not Just IRS Lawyers; The Problem Is All Federal Government Lawyers (June 11, 2013)
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- The Complete IRS Video Collection (June 10, 2013)
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- The IRS Scandal, Day 28 (June 6, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 27 (June 5, 2013)
- Jon Stewart on the IRS Scandal (June 4, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 26 (June 4, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 25 (June 3, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 24 (June 2, 2013)
- 'Cupid Shuffle' Dance Training Video Adds to IRS Woes (June 1, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 23 (June 1, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 22 (May 31, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 21 (May 30, 2013)
- The Impact of the IRS Scandal on Tax Reform (May 29, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 20 (May 29, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 19 (May 28, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 18 (May 27, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 17 (May 26, 2013)
- Jason Jones on the IRS Scandal (May 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 16 (May 25, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 24, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 15 (May 24, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 14 (May 23, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 13 (May 22, 2013)
- Steven Colbert on the IRS Scandal (May 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 12 (May 21, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal: Really?! (May 20, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 11 (May 20, 2013)
- SNL on the IRS Scandal (May 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 10 (May 19, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 9 (May 18, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 8 (May 17, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 7 (May 16, 2013)
- Phillip Hackney, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Be on the Lookout for False Partisan Witchunts (May 15, 2013)
- Ellen Aprill, The TIGTA Report on the IRS Scandal: Questions About the IRS and About the Report (May 15, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 6 (May 15, 2013)
- Inspector General: Ineffective IRS Management Allowed Agents to Target Conservative Groups (May 14, 2013)
- Jon Stewart and Vic Fleischer on the IRS Scandal (May 14, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 5 (May 14, 2013)
- The Deepening IRS Scandal (May 13, 2013)
- Schmalbeck on the IRS 'Targeting' of Conservative Groups (May 12, 2013)
- WaPo and WSJ Agree: IRS Targeting of Conservatives Is Appalling (May 11, 2013)
- IRS Admits to Targeting Conservative Groups in 2012 Election (May 10, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2014/06/strong-2.html
Comments
Paul:
I've started a petition calling for an Executive Order ( http://wh.gov/lHuzE ) to search all federal agencies for the missing IRS emails.
More details here: http://porkopolis.blogspot.com/2014/06/whitehousegov-petition-calling-on-potus.html
Posted by: Porkopolis | Jun 17, 2014 11:42:14 AM
I've been following this one since the day that Lerner made that odd (and carefully pre-planned) apology at an ABA conference. Here's what strikes me as a former litigator. Lerner knew that the IG report was in progress for a long time before she did her apology. Her apology was timed to be just days before the IG report came out. If she and others at the IRS knew that the IG was doing the report, wouldn't that trigger a preservation duty as to emails? That is, once you know that some legal process may be calling for your docs, you normally have a duty to prevent spoliation. So I'd be interested in knowing when Lerner and others at the IRS first realized that the IG was poking around.
Posted by: john Steele | Jun 17, 2014 9:14:17 AM
So the IRS doesn't back up their computers. More proof of incompetence by the federal government. And these are the people in charge of our new universal healthcare system. Scary isn't it!
Posted by: Alanatswbell | Jun 17, 2014 2:12:33 PM