Another hard drive bites the dust, taking with it the record of possible malfeasance: Federal employees, like all Americans, are entitled to hold passionate political beliefs. Most executive branch federal employees, however, may not engage in certain political activities, thanks … Continue reading →
You may have heard that the IRS was fined $50,000 for improperly releasing to the left the names of donors to a pro-traditional-marriage group called NOM in 2012, material that ended up being published and used in the 2012 election. … Continue reading →
Well, now we know—at least, according to Koskinen—the answer to one of the questions I posed a few days ago about whether computer crashes were “a routine matter” at the IRS. Here’s Koskinen: It is not unusual for computers anywhere … Continue reading →
“Contempt” in several senses of the word. Please watch to the end [the tape should start around minute 3:00]: Oh, and by the way—here’s the video of the March 26 hearing where Koskinen promised to provide ALL the emails: What … Continue reading →
It’s been difficult getting clear on the IRS timeline, but here are some salient facts that have come out recently, from Kimberley Strassel at the WSJ: As to Ms. Lerner’s behavior, consider that House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp … Continue reading →
Paul Ryan goes off on IRS head John Koskinen—who is about as annoying a smug bureaucrat as you will find:
Continue reading →Not only is the loss of the emails of Lois Lerner and the IRS Six not credible, but the failure of the agency to back them up properly in some centralized fashion is a separate outrage. Here’s the way the … Continue reading →
In the end, will anything much be done about all these suspiciously lost IRS emails and the larger IRS scandal? Will the buck stop somewhere, and if so where? And how? It certainly won’t be easy to get at the … Continue reading →
…when the administration trots out excuses as stupendously preposterous as the idea that the emails of Lois Lerner and six other IRS higher-ups have disappeared in perfectly-timed crashes. That’s a tale that literally no one believes. One can only conclude … Continue reading →
More and more IRS emails gone missing: six more employees’ email records, to be exact. Even before this new “accident” was announced, Sharyl Attkisson had a great comment on the loss of Lerner’s emails: There is a responsibility on the … Continue reading →
Shades of Rose Mary Woods: Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service informing the Committee that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009 ”“ … Continue reading →
Andrew C. McCarthy lays out the case for letting Lois Lerner off the prosecutor’s hook and putting her on the Congressional hearings’ hook by granting her immunity from prosecution for her testimony. Whether you believe that would be a good … Continue reading →