They're addicted to their skimming, graft, and theft under the color of law as a meth head or junkie to their needle...

CONgress will never repeal the 16th Amendment nor reform IRS.

The perfect is the enemy of the good. If the IRS is to be toppled, its quicker to chip away at its foundations. This scandal is an opportunity to convince congress to shrink the IRS by reducing paperwork and employees.

Since the DOJ now (after months of not being transparent) admits the information (emails) are available but "it would be too hard" to get them and really, "they don't want to.": http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386...

They know who's butt erring their bread...

Compared to this admin, the Watergate Incident is like piddling into a typhoon.

*Their* truth is Transparent as Glass... and just as Fragile.

Because as the laws are broken, they change the rules to make them non-prosecutable... or use the power of the Pen and Cellphone to change the laws to ones more acceptable to the schemings and mechanizations of ol' Potus..

Back in the startup days of our company, Wm and I innocently advised a particular clinic in downtown LA that they could use SSAN's as their Patient ID. And the suits in the BoD of the clinic all burst out laughing. They told us that the corner their clinic was on was THE corner to go to in LA to obtain false SSAN's - everyone in the neighborhood had one of 5 or 6 same SSAN cards.

Jan

Ouch!

Jan
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I guess you mean IRS investigator. Why does the IRS not cross check the employee information with the employers reporting before continuing with a payment? The scammer could not possibly know everything about the persons employment and what is reported unless they have inside information. This makes me think that the problem is internal within the IRS itself.

I don't compromise when it comes to my rights.

government employed people protect other government employed people.

"Repeal the 16th Amendment" Or at least go to a flat tax that everybody pays and has no deductions or exemptions.

Ignore that person behind the curtain.

Want to wipe out IRS corruption? Repeal the 16th Amendment. Come to think of it, that would wipe out most of the rest of the government as well. As long as we keep sending trillions to Washington, it is going to be a cesspool of corruption and crime, going far beyond this IRS scandal. The only way to change that is to restore people's second most important right (behind the right of self-defense); the right to their own honestly acquired income.

Right with you. Been in IT professionally for 20+ years and besides the legal requirement to back up your systems, there's the business need to do so as well.

If her hard drive was destroyed, that's a criminal action right there. If the backups were destroyed, that's ALSO a criminal action. If they are stalling to not release the stuff from backup, THAT'S a criminal action.

I try and stay motivated to read the details of how yet again big government is corrupt and participating in criminal activity - obstruction of justice and more in this case.
But the general story always seem to be the same - yet they get re-elected in both the executive and legislative branches.
I think I mostly shrugged over 20 years ago regarding the 2 entrenched established political parties in the US.

This is really, really bad.

We need to wipe out the IRS and start over with appropriate protections against this vindictive, illegal, unconstitutional behavior.

This is just business as usual - not considered news by the press. They know the hand that feeds them.

Having been an investigator for many years I always asked people I knew or suspected of being illegal if that was really their social security number, and nearly always told no. One of these days someone is going to start causing problems for the legitimate holder of the number when their reported income doesn't match the withholding amounts.

But, the DOJ lawyer argued, it would be too tough to retrieve those emails from the boundless trove of government data

More lies. Using current technology, and I have been in IT for 30 years, simple data searches are used all the time to narrow specific searches and scan through billions of emails. The Government mandates ALL corporations perform these searches in the event of SEC investigations. HP, IBM, and many other companies sell products and have ever since Sarbanes-Oxley came out and companies had to comply with.

SOX Section 404: Management Assessment of Internal Controls
All annual financial reports must include an Internal Control Report stating that management is responsible for an "adequate" internal control structure, and an assessment by management of the effectiveness of the control structure. Any shortcomings in these controls must also be reported. In addition, registered external auditors must attest to the accuracy of the company management's assertion that internal accounting controls are in place, operational and effective.

SOX Section 409 - Real Time Issuer Disclosures
Companies are required to disclose on a almost real-time basis information concerning material changes in its financial condition or operations.

Section 409 includes e-mails, since e-mails are not excluded. Controls also include e-mails.

More Government lies about this being too tough. The problem is they (government) knows that the smoking gun is there and implicates Obama and Jarret directly.

Something stinks at to high heaven at the IRS. The latest abuse is scammers filing electronic returns using stolen identity. The returns have bogus information and a large refund. If the taxpayers return is filed by mail then the IRS tries to collect the lost money from the people filing the legitimate return. It is then up to the legitimate tax payer to prove that they have been the victim of identity theft. The IRS has to be one of the most dysfunctional and irresponsible organizations on the planet.

The IRS office in Dallas had a couple of folks that had Obama propaganda in their offices.

There should also be an investigation of Lerner's husband, whose law firm represents clients before the IRS. Conflict of interest, anyone?