IRS Selectively Targeting

[Conan71]

The IRS must have some very sophisticated equipment. I have set up quite a few mail servers and clients of all flavors, and have never come across one that will selectively lose emails to/from some groups but not emails to/from others.

Funny that the IRS requires businesses to maintain a level of compliance, but seem to lack even the most basic archiving themselves.

This is probably the worst excuse ever, because only an idiot Obama spooner would believe and accept it.

I'm done being shocked at the chicanery they employ with total impunity.  If this had happened under Bush or if McSame would have been elected, well, use your imagination. 

[Gaspar]

In a bizarre turn of events CNN starts reporting the news.

It seems we have a bit more than Nixon's missing 18 minutes here.

[Gaspar]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/lawmakers-irs-lost-emails-tea-party-probe-24175196
Must have had a really bad bunch of hard drives in that office, because now 6 additional employees in the same IRS office had their hard drives crash and lost copies of the emails from exactly the same time period.  One of these was Nikole Flax who was the chief of staff for Lerner's boss, and for some unexplained reason spent a huge amount of time (very bizarre indeed for an IRS staffer) visiting the White House during that exact period.  Probably had to call to get an appointment since the email was on the fritz.



This has gone from "the dog ate my homework" to "I was abducted by space aliens."

[heironymouspasparagus]

This has gone from "the dog ate my homework" to "I was abducted by space aliens."

Ahhh, yes...we have moved to "Bush Reality Zone"....it all makes sense now!

[Gaspar]

A great new bill to be introduced, "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act":

Under Stockman's bill, "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act," taxpayers who do not provide documents requested by the IRS can claim one of the following reasons:

1.         The dog ate my tax receipts
2.         Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction
3.         Traded documents for five terrorists
4.         Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon
5.         Left on table in Hillary's Book Room
6.         Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy's car
7.         Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords
8.         Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar
9.         Was short on toilet paper while camping
10.       At this point, what difference does it make?

Stockman's bill comes a week after the IRS refused to turn over to House investigators emails from former Exempt Organizations Divison director Lois Lerner that would implicate agency personnel in illegal targeting of citizens critical of President Barack Obama.

Today the IRS director was unexpectedly asked if Lois Lerner had a BlackBerry or smartphone, and in a bit of panic he responded "I don't know."  Of course we know from her signature lines on many of her emails that say "Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld" in the signature line. 

How much do you want to bet that her BlackBerry has been stolen, lost, dropped from a tall building, or misplaced in a volcano?

[Conan71]

How much do you want to bet that her BlackBerry has been stolen, lost, dropped from a tall building, or misplaced in a volcano?

It spontaneously combusted, like Dooeys.

[dbacksfan 2.0]

It spontaneously combusted, like Dooeys.

Yes, just like Sharon Jean.......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNSAioPH-kw&feature=kp

[dbacksfan 2.0]

Not insulting, or insinuating, but most of us here know that in an enterprise situation emails are created, routed and stored through an email server, not through the desk top PC. So if your desk top crashes, your emails are stored else where. The email server is backed up and stored on premise, as well as stored in an off site storage facility in case of a disaster recovery scenario. While it's possible that emails are dumped depending upon the retention requirements, I highly doubt that the IRS has a short retention policy for emails when so many other items, returns/filings/business status/profit-nonprofit filings/business tax ID numbers/corporate tax ID numbers, have been stored and filed for decades.

[guido911]

The only way to defeat Stockman's "The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act"?

[AquaMan]

Just got a letter like that from the Oklahoma State Tax Commission. It said, "Our records indicate you owe us $31.16 in interest. Send it by July 10 or we will send the debt to a collection agency."

Nice. What records? Might you share with me? Didn't explain why I owe them anything since I filed on time and paid a fairly hurtful (for me) amount to them. Just pay or die.

I think we may be suffering from institutional ignorance and poor communication skills stemming from our state's reliance on cronyism and graduates of our underfunded education system. Or maybe they targeted the dozen or so Democrats left here.

[RecycleMichael]

Just got a letter like that from the Oklahoma State Tax Commission. It said, "Our records indicate you owe us $31.16 in interest. Send it by July 10 or we will send the debt to a collection agency."

Please send me your home address.

I need to send you a letter like that from the TulsaNow Debt Commission. "Our records indicate you owe us $20.00 in past due charges for posting on public forums. Send it by July 10 or we will send the debt to a collection agency."

I figure $20 will buy us five or six bottles of wine to be consumed at our next lunch meeting.

[AquaMan]

Let me think about that......

[Red Arrow]

I figure $20 will buy us five or six bottles of wine to be consumed at our next lunch meeting.

They are either really small bottles or really cheap wine.

[Ed W]

The wine is made behind someone's garage in Skiatook. There's hardly any brake fluid in it.

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[AquaMan]

But plenty of anti-freeze no doubt, Ed.

Sorry, guys. The OTC took all my savings and I post dated the check to boot. "A man of means, by no means...."