Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Destroying Evidence is Nothing New - Lerner Cautioned Colleagues That Congress Could Read Their Emails

It has been a theme of crime stories since Poe. I just saw an old movie where the suspects burned a building, killing its tenant to make it look like the records were burned up before a government commission could subpoena them.

Is the IRS above murder? It's hard to say about an out of control organization whose stock and trade is theft and the destruction of individual lives. m/r



PJ Media » Lerner Cautioned Colleagues That Congress Could Read Their Emails



By Rodrigo Sermeño On July 12, 2014
WASHINGTON – House Republicans released emails on Wednesday showing that Louis Lerner, the former Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the tea party scandal, warned her colleagues “to be cautious” about what they wrote in emails because of potential interest from congressional investigators.
Republicans took the opportunity to grill IRS commissioner John Koskinen, who was testifying before a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing on improper government payments, over Lerner’s lost emails.
At the hearing, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) released new emails he says show Lerner deliberately sought to hide information from Congress. The emails were turned over to the panel last week, more than a year after the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed all documents relating to the targeting scandal that began in 2010.
The IRS disclosed last month that Lerner’s hard drive crashed in 2011 and has since been destroyed.
The agency, however, said it was still able to retrieve roughly 24,000 of her emails from 2009 to 2011 by piecing together the emails from the computers of 83 other workers.
Republicans on the panel said those emails raised more questions about the IRS’s treatment of conservative groups, especially because they were sent less than two weeks after an IRS inspector general gave Lerner a copy of his audit on the targeting scandal.
In the email exchange, Lerner asks a colleague whether Congress can search communications made through an internal messaging system.
Lerner sent an email to IRS IT employee Maria Hooke on April 19, 2013, asking about the international communication system, known as the Office Communication Server (OCS), and whether Congress could access those messages.
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