We’ll start here. Here is count two of the Articles of Impeachment drawn against Richard Nixon.
“endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigation to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
What’s even more astounding about all of this, Richard Nixon, by the admission of those leveling the charges against him, never actually followed through on those impulses. Those missing tapes once found only revealed a drunken Nixon musing about the idea as a way to silence his critics. Just talking about it got him run out of town, and the IRS never performed one extraneous audit on his behalf.
Today of course, the bar used to measure civil behavior has been lowered considerably. I believe we can safely place this bit of criminal behavior and the complete non coverage from the alphabet media stooges acting as Democrat Party scribes in the what-if-a-Republican-did-it category. Remember, these are the same fine folks who sent teams of news crews to Crawford, Texas for the entirety of 2004 in order to get footage of Cindy Sheehan picketing George W. Bush’s driveway all by herself, even when Bush himself was no where near Texas. There is no question any longer as to whether crimes were broken by high ranking members of the IRS, people who regularly send American Citizens to jail for violation of their rules, ruin lives, and have shown in the past zero tolerance, flexibility, or acceptance of mitigating circumstances. They have performed their duties with the zeal of true fanaticism, and have often been slapped back by the Judiciary for overstepping the boundaries of actual tax law in order to collect monies not truly owed. Since our Attorney General’s, “exhaustive,” investigation turned up not one smidgen of evidence, it is equally obvious that a special prosecutor needs to be appointed.
Next, we’ll try a thought experiment. Have you ever typed out an email, hit send, and immediately regretted your decision? I once had an IT specialist in a large corporation that I worked for impart this wisdom to me, and a room full of others in a seminar warning us of the dangers inherent in the virtual world. “Be careful before hitting send, enter, or in any web navigation what so ever. When you delete those emails that you regret, or pictures you’ve uploaded, or comments you’ve posted on bulletin boards or in chat rooms, all it really means is that you’re the only person in the world who can no longer see it.” If I offered you $1 Billion to completely erase any of Lois Lerner’s emails, plus 6 other IRS employees, you couldn’t do it. This is not only not probable, it is not possible. The next subpoena should be for every government employee who’s ever received or sent an email to Lois Lerner. Those missing emails are out there in the virtual universe, and can be retrieved with surprising ease. All claims to the contrary are worse than lies, because a lie in and of itself does not depend upon this level of stupidity on the part of the person listening to it.
Now of course, the lie is that they’d thrown out Lois’ computer. There’s nothing like sending a few crooks here and there to prison to start loosening the tongues of co-conspirators. Right now, these clowns are tight lipped and smug. Lois Lerner and her merry band of felons are convinced that there will be not one single consequence for their treacherous acts. Most who are following this scandal with any curiosity at all are convinced that this will lead straight to the man child President himself, but nobody is chatting it up. There is no truth serum quite so potent as taking 20 yeas freedom from somebody who wishes to see daylight and television. Eventually, there will be one of these crooks who’s loyalty was not based upon fanatical devotion, but personal gain. That person will not be willing to take this one for the team. That person will roll over on someone bigger than themselves, and the higher up the chain you go, the less fanatical those crooks will be. We need to stop playing around with them, and just start taking them to a jury of their peers, not tomorrow, but yesterday.
From the Town Hall article linked to above:
Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.
“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
So now the IRS wants us to believe Lerner’s emails were only stored on her personal hard drive? And not on a backup server somewhere? Come on. Further, why is it that Lerner has emails to employees in the IRS, but her hard drive just happened to “crash” between January 2009-April 2011 and only on the emails to outside sources?
