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Congressman Asks NSA To Provide Metadata For "Lost" IRS Emails
An anonymous reader writes in with news that the IRS lost email scandal is far from over. Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) has sent a formal letter to the National Security Agency asking it to hand over "all its metadata" on the e-mail accounts of a former division director at the Internal Revenue Service. "Your prompt cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated and will help establish how IRS and other personnel violated rights protected by the First Amendment," Stockman wrote on Friday. The request came hours after the IRS told a congressional committee that it had "lost" all of the former IRS Exempt Organizations division director's e-mails between January 2009 and April 2011.
Take a real scandal (NSA) and link it to a fake one (IRS). If you are stupid enough to make your organization's name sound like it's that of a political party, you can expect extra scrutiny. The reason I know there was no real suppression is that Crossroads GPS got its tax-exempt status and then spent millions on the election, "educating" voters to vote for Mitt Romney. Where was the outrage from Stockman when President W. Bush was firing US Attorney's who prosecuted Republican politicians?
My other sig is extremely clever...
Of course I mean all of them. You can shitcan your "liberal/conservative troll crap. I don't play that game. It's strictly business.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
"... it proves the GOP right. Either way, they win"
So... who's the so-called "mouth breather" now??????
One of the things I have long noticed about you left-wingers is that you are never confident enough in your beliefs to argue them in a civil tone: anybody who disagrees is called a "knuckle-dragger" or a "mouth breather" or a "religious nut" or gets some other far worse insult attached (black critics of Obama get called things like "Uncle Toms" (and FAR worse) and conservative women get called "sluts" and worse) .... AND you guys are often so very thin-skinned that you complain that you are being insulted when somebody simply IDENTIFIES you with a term like "left wing" ot "lefty" (no more insulting in the real world than "right wing" or "righty")
If Mr Obama and his team are the soooper-geniuses you all seem to presume they are, then how could they have screwed-up so badly as to now be trapped by a bunch of obviously cro-magnon "mouth breathers"???? If Obama and his team are as transparent as you guys all insist they are, then how come ANYTHING is having to be discovered via lawsuits and subpoenas???? and if they are so honest and correct as you guys always assert thay are, then how can these things POSSIBLY be ANY risk to them at all??? (and if they're no risk then why does the Obama admin waste so much time and energy HIDING them????)
You have a very high opinion of government IT. Myself, having encountered the BOFH's that run government IT I can say with all seriousness it's entirely likely the entire email server for the IRS division was stored on a second hand laptop sitting in some closet without any backups whatsoever.
Government pays so shitty I wouldn't expect any "qualified" IT people in the IRS. Hell they still use mainframes from the 70's to process taxes because every time they've tried to replace them they've failed miserably and they've blown their entire IT budgets for years trying.
So no, I think it's completely and totally believable that all the email was stored in some non-backed up second hand PC running exchange. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case. It'll never cease to amaze me how Republicans run up and down screaming about how incompetent government is but when they display that incompetence they run around screaming conspiracy.
the GOP is always slimy, all the cool kids say so
Yeah, they're also the same kids who get their "news" from The Colbert Report.