Thursday, August 27, 2015
The IRS Scandal, Day 840
New York Post editorial, The IRS Scandal Goes to the Dogs:
Move over, Carlos Danger, there’s a new alias in town: Toby Miles, an electronic front for Lois Lerner.
Lerner famously took the Fifth rather than testify about how the Internal Revenue Service came to target right-leaning advocacy nonprofits in the run-up to the 2012 election.
Ever since, the IRS has blocked congressional efforts to get to the facts, while the Justice Department’s “probe” was a joke even before the president declared there’s “not a smidgen of corruption” in the affair.
Happily, the public-interest group Judicial Watch is on the job, pushing to get the facts out. On Monday, it forced an IRS attorney to admit Lerner had used a personal email account under the “Toby Miles” name to conduct official government business.
This is her second private email account — though the first was under her own name.
Mind you, it’s been two-plus years since the scandal broke, yet the agency that promised to clean up its act is only now revealing this fresh evidence.
No doubt the IRS will take months to fork over any of “Toby’s” emails. As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says, “This is the latest in a parade of obstruction from the IRS and the Department of Justice on these issues.” ...
The capper: One Lerner acquaintance says “Toby Miles” is the name of Lerner’s dog.
Nothing quite says truth and transparency like doing Uncle Sam’s work under your dog’s name.
- The IRS Scandal, Day 839 (Aug. 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 838 (Aug. 25, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 837 (Aug. 24, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 836 (Aug. 23, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 835 (Aug. 22, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 834 (Aug. 21, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 833 (Aug. 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 832 (Aug. 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 831 (Aug. 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 830 (Aug. 17, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 829 (Aug. 16, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 828 (Aug. 15, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 827 (Aug. 14, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 826 (Aug. 13, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 825 (Aug. 12, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 824 (Aug. 11, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 823 (Aug. 10, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 822 (Aug. 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 821 (Aug. 8, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 820 (Aug. 7, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 819 (Aug. 6, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 818 (Aug. 5, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 817 (Aug. 4, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 816 (Aug. 3, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 815 (Aug. 2, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 814 (Aug. 1, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 813 (July 31, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 812 (July 30, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 811 (July 29, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 810 (July 28, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 809 (July 27, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 808 (July 26, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 807 (July 25, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 806 (July 24, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 805 (July 23, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 804 (July 22, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 803 (July 21, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 802 (July 20, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Day 801 (July 19, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 701-800 (April 10, 2015 - July 18, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 601-700 (Dec. 31, 2014 - April 9, 2015)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 501-600 (Sept. 22, 2014-Dec. 30, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 401-500 (June 14, 2014 - Sept. 21,2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 301-400 (Mar. 6, 2014 - June 13, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 201-300 (Nov. 26, 2013 - Mar. 5, 2014)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 101-200 (Aug. 18, 2013 - Nov. 25, 2013)
- The IRS Scandal, Days 1-100 (May 10, 2013 - Aug. 17, 2013)
https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2015/08/the-irs-scandal-day-.html
are you suggesting that this dog's emails should be turned over to investigators? don't dogs have rights in this country? can dogs plead the 5th? (if so, how?)
it seems there are whole previously unexplored areas of jurisprudence opened up by this case.
Posted by: Daniel | Aug 27, 2015 12:04:36 PM