Leading members of Congress are ripping IRS officials for erasing a computer hard drive after a federal judge ordered it to be preserved.
“The destruction of evidence subject to preservation orders and subpoenas has been an ongoing problem under your leadership at the IRS,” Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Rep. Jim Jordan , wrote in a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen late Thursday.
“It is stunning to see that the IRS does not take reasonable care to preserve documents that it is legally required to protect,” Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, and Jordan, an Ohio Republican, said in the letter to Koskinen.
The IRS recently admitted in court to erasing the hard drive even though a federal judge had issued a preservation related to a Microsoft Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the federal tax agency last year, according to court documents. Microsoft accuses the IRS of inappropriately hiring an outside law firm to audit it and of failing to hand over related documents requested under the FOIA.
Sure, the IRS is a rogue agency but what is anyone going to do about it?
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No one is going to do a damn thing about it, no one will ever be held accountable for any illegal actions done by this administration.
Suppressing conservative vote is not considered a crime now days the John Doe investigations in Wisconsin are proof of that. No matter what a court orders those orders are ignored by the left, without any consequences.
They will probably get sanctioned by the judge , but to the IRS it is a drop in the bucket .
@Enchanted: You would not believe how rabid the nazi left is here.
http://www.rightwisconsin.com/perspectives/GAB-Sent-Their-Attack-Dog-36
Obamas minions did stop short of storming into peoples homes in the middle of the night and grabbing all printed records and electronics including childrens’ cel phones and slapping a gag order on them.
Both situations are certainly disgusting.
They are likely destroying the evidence trying to avoid criminal charges, but there are too many people involved and the emails are everywhere. If the republicans get elected, there will be no Obama pardon to save them.
Because there is not a smidgen of evidence of scandal at the IRS, they keep destroying evidence.
Once we are rid of liberalism in the nation’s leadership, perhaps this culture of using the taxpayer’s government to attack the taxpayers that do not agree with the government can be purged. That would be a justified reason for increasing the unemployment rate. I would hope those involved would lose their jobs, never find another and face financial and personal ruin.
The only reason you have any investigations is the work of Judicial Watch. Without this organization{Judicial Watch,Inc.v Internal Revenue Service} forced the House Reform Committee to introduce impeachment of the IR S commissioner.