IRS Selectively Targeting

[Conan71]

OTC also operates under a relative veil of secrecy.  Just pray they never estimate your taxes for you. 

[guido911]

This is brutal.

[heironymouspasparagus]

This is brutal.

Where was Gowdy when we were "discussing" going into Iraq?


Oh, yeah...the wrong side of history!

[guido911]

Where was Gowdy when we were "discussing" going into Iraq?


Oh, yeah...the wrong side of history!

I think he was still in the federal prosecutor's office in South Carolina, working for a democrat appointed by Clenis. He didn't get to Congress until 2010. Now, care to walk back your indictment?

[heironymouspasparagus]

I think he was still in the federal prosecutor's office in South Carolina, working for a democrat appointed by Clenis. He didn't get to Congress until 2010. Now, care to walk back your indictment?

No.  I knew he was a late comer, but he could also have expressed an opinion there.  And I would bet a really BIG pile of change that he was all about going there then, too.  And he could join in today, too, where he could possibly do some good!  But wait....he's all about the Benghazi thing isn't he?  Must be a crushing disappointment that the administration has actually made a capture after a relatively short time....compared to how long Bush took to catch Bin Laden...  ooopppsss....those pesky facts again - Bush didn't actually do that, did he!!

He has a history and that is pertinent.  He is casting aspersions on the IRS guy (who I would say may well deserve them since he IS  IRS) and acting all pious, so what is his background?  How pious has he been all his life?

See how Oklahoma embraces a governor who hangs out with Hugh Hefner...!!  Or maybe P J O'Rourke...?  Yep, people make major sea-changes all the time....

[dbacksfan 2.0]

How can this man lose emails? He helped protect us from Y2k?



http://fcw.com/articles/2012/06/15/feat-people-john-koskinen-y2k.aspx

[Gaspar]

Nothing suspicious about the Email discovered today. http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Lerner-email-use-2.pdf

[heironymouspasparagus]

Nothing suspicious about the Email discovered today. http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Lerner-email-use-2.pdf

Question;  can emails be saved?

Answer;  Yes, so treat all conversations as public.


Yeah...suspicious....
More inane than suspicious.

[guido911]

Well this is one way to deal with a rogue federal agency. Cut the crap out of its funding.

http://buzzpo.com/revenge-house-cuts-1-1-billion-irs-budget/

[Gaspar]

Well this is one way to deal with a rogue federal agency. Cut the crap out of its funding.

http://buzzpo.com/revenge-house-cuts-1-1-billion-irs-budget/

Does this mean no presents under the tree on April 15th?

Actually this kinda sucks.  I have a system I can sell them that will archive every employee's email, instant message, and even their personal POP communications (if transmitted on the government network).  I can get them into such a system for under a million bucks, and it would only take a couple of weeks to implement.

Far better option than ankle bracelets, but then again, it could lead to ankle brackets.

[guido911]

This is Trey Gowdy tearing the IRS guy a new one.

Gowdy is also heading up the Benghazi investigation. Can you imagine his reaction to this?  

[guido911]

And the inevitable Trey Gowdy hair...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/this-man-has-the-most-confusing-hair-in-congress

https://www.google.com/search?q=trey+gowdy%27s+hair&espv=2&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=CZDQU6KZFce6oQST0oG4Dw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=643

[heironymouspasparagus]

Actually this kinda sucks.  I have a system I can sell them that will archive every employee's email, instant message, and even their personal POP communications (if transmitted on the government network).  I can get them into such a system for under a million bucks, and it would only take a couple of weeks to implement.

You will never get in the door with that.  Raise it to $73 million and they might talk to you.  You could then 'cut' it to $70 million even to give them a break.  Good feelings all around, and the customer feels they have gotten their money's worth!  Oh, yeah...take an extra 13 months to complete it!

[Gaspar]

. . .and in today's document dump.
The IRS added five more employees to its computer crash list Friday, the Associated Press reported. The new computer crash victims are linked to congressional investigations into the IRS scandal and include two more Cincinnati-based tax exempt agents who worked under Lois Lerner.

The announcement came just hours after new emails revealed that computer-crash victims Lerner and Nikole Flax were part of a "secret research project" that led the IRS to improperly demand donor information from nonprofit groups.

The IRS initially said that it lost emails from seven IRS employees including Lerner, but then amended its estimate to state that nearly 20 employees suffered email-deleting computer crashes. Lerner's computer hard drive was destroyed by the agency and her Blackberry was erased.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/09/05/irs-five-more-employees-lost-emails-in-computer-crashes/

Windows 8 really sucks!

[Gaspar]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/239206082/Issa-Letter-to-Eric-Holder-About-Brian-Fallon

A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa's staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to Holder.

The aide, Brian Fallon, is a former senior aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and a well-known personality on Capitol Hill. The letter describes Fallon as "audibly shaken" when he realizes his request to leak documents to help get ahead of news stories about them was mistakenly made to the very office he was seeking to undermine. Issa believes the call was intended to be made to Democratic Rep. Elijah Cumming's staff, the ranking member on the oversight panel, the letter said.

According to the letter, Fallon – who is not named in the letter but confirmed he made the call – asked if the aides could release the IRS scandal documents to "selected reporters" to give Fallon an "opportunity to comment publicly on it."

Fallon explained to Issa aides that the Justice Department's Office of Legislative Affairs had not permitted him to release the documents to the public and he wanted to get ahead of the story "before the Majority" – meaning Issa – could share it, according to the letter.

Issa aides – who had placed the call on speakerphone – were "caught off guard by the unusual nature of the call and the odd request" and asked Fallon to "e-mail the material for evaluation."

"At this point," Fallon "abruptly placed the call on hold for approximately three minutes." When Fallon returned to the call, "he was audibly shaken. He immediately stated that there was a 'change in plans' and that there would be no effort" by DOJ to release the material early.

. . .and that's how you go from a job at the corrupt DOJ to serving fries at Wendy's.