Computer crash...my ass!

This just reeks!!! 

So much for a computer crash!

How is this any different then Nixon?  Nixon deleted 20 minutes of tape, Smidgen is missing 2 and half years of emails! If this new allegation doesn't warrant appointing a Special Prosecutor I don't know what does. Like I said before I wouldn't be surprised if these emails are missing from the server too. Who's responsible for this? Believe it or not the MSM. Barry and his henchman know they can get away with murder (literally) and the MSM will do nothing. Imagine where we would be if there was no FOX news.

Remember now... "there's not a smidgen of corruption".

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GOP fury after report claims IRS 'recycled' Lerner hard drive

Smidgen in all her glory.

The top Republican on one of the House committees investigating the IRS targeting scandal reacted furiously late Wednesday to a report that ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's hard drive had been recycled, making it likely that many emails sent to and from Lerner prior to the summer of 2011 will never be recovered. 

The Politico report cited two anonymous sources, as well as Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who confirmed that the Senate Finance Committee had been told that the hard drive had been discarded.

"If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about 'losing' e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said in a statement. "Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don't just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention."

Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Congressional investigators have been probing the agency for more than a year. However, IRS officials did not inform Congress of the lost emails until June 13.

Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee have charged that the agency knew as early as February that the emails were missing. They have also said that email records of six IRS employees believed to be involved in the scandal in addition to Lerner have not been found. 

The missing emails are mainly messages to and from people outside the IRS, including the White House and other major offices and departments.

The IRS was able to recover 24,000 Lerner emails from 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 83 other IRS employees.

Computer crash...my ass!

My country,' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty...

Afraid Not

On a tip from  Phil McCafferty

The IRS Loses Lerner's Emails

The IRS—remember those jaunty folks?—announced Friday that it can't find two years of emails from Lois Lerner to the Departments of Justice or Treasury. And none to the White House or Democrats on Capitol Hill. An agency spokesman blames a computer crash.

Never underestimate government incompetence, but how convenient. The former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations was at the center of the IRS targeting of conservative groups and still won't testify before Congress. Now we'll never know whose orders she was following, or what directions she was giving. If the Reagan White House had ever offered up this excuse, John Dingell would have held the entire government in contempt.

The suspicion that this is willful obstruction of Congress is all the more warranted because this week we also learned that the IRS, days before the 2010 election, shipped a 1.1 million page database about tax-exempt groups to the FBI. Why? New emails turned up by Darrell Issa's House Oversight Committee show Department of Justice officials worked with Ms. Lerner to investigate groups critical of President Obama.

How out of bounds was this data dump? Consider the usual procedure. The IRS is charged with granting tax-exempt status to social-welfare organizations that spend less than 50% of their resources on politics. If the IRS believes a group has violated those rules, it can assign an agent to investigate and revoke its tax-exempt status. This routinely happens and isn't a criminal offense.

Ms. Lerner, by contrast, shipped a database of 12,000 nonprofit tax returns to the FBI, the investigating agency for Justice's Criminal Division. The IRS, in other words, was inviting Justice to engage in a fishing expedition, and inviting people not even licensed to fish in that pond. The Criminal Division (rather than the Tax Division) investigates and prosecutes under the Internal Revenue Code only when the crimes involve IRS personnel.

The Criminal Division knows this, which explains why the emails show that Ms. Lerner was meeting to discuss the possibility of using different statutes, specifically campaign-finance laws, to prosecute nonprofits. A separate email from September 2010 shows Jack Smith, the head of Justice's Public Integrity Unit (part of the Criminal Division) musing over whether Justice might instead "ever charge a 371" against nonprofits. A "371" refers to a section of the U.S. Code that allows prosecutors to broadly claim a conspiracy to defraud the U.S. You know, conspiracies like exercising the right to free political speech.

The IRS has admitted that this database included confidential taxpayer information—including donor details—for at least 33 nonprofits. The IRS claims this was inadvertent, and Justice says neither it nor the FBI used any information for any "investigative purpose." This blasé attitude is astonishing given the law on confidential taxpayer information was created to prevent federal agencies from misusing the information. News of this release alone ought to cause IRS heads to roll.

The latest revelations are a further refutation of Ms. Lerner's claim that the IRS targeting trickled up from underlings in the Cincinnati office. And they strongly add to the evidence that the IRS and Justice were motivated to target by the frequent calls for action by the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats.

One email from September 21, 2010 shows Sarah Hall Ingram, a senior IRS official, thanking the IRS media team for their work with a New York Times NYT -2.44% reporter on an article about nonprofits in elections. "I do think it came out pretty well," she writes, in an email that was also sent to Ms. Lerner. "The 'secret donor' theme will continue—see Obama salvo and today's [radio interview with House Democratic Rep. Chris Van Hollen ]."

Several nonprofit groups have recently filed complaints with the Senate Ethics Committee against nine Democratic Senators for improperly interfering with the IRS. It's one thing for Senators to ask an agency about the status of a rule or investigation. But it is extraordinary for Illinois's Dick Durbin to demand that tax authorities punish specific conservative organizations, or for Michigan's Carl Levin to order the IRS to hand over confidential nonprofit tax information.

And it's no surprise to learn that Justice's renewed interest in investigating nonprofits in early 2013 immediately followed a hearing by Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse in which he dragged in officials from Justice and the IRS and demanded action.

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It somehow took a year for the IRS to locate these Lerner exchanges with Justice, though they were clearly subject to Mr. Issa's original subpoenas. The Oversight Committee had to subpoena Justice to obtain them, and it only knew to do that after it was tipped to the correspondence by discoveries from the watchdog group Judicial Watch. Justice continues to drag its feet in offering up witnesses and documents. And now we have the two years of emails that have simply vanished into the government ether.

New IRS Commissioner John Koskinen promised to cooperate with Congress. But either he is being undermined by his staff, or he's aiding the agency's stonewalling. And now that we know that Justice was canoodling with Ms. Lerner, its own dilatory investigation becomes easier to understand. Or maybe that was a computer crash too.

My country,' tis of thee, sweet land of liberty...

Kerry catches some shut-eye

John Kerry catches some shut-eye during the Polish President's press conference but insists that it was 'just a long blink' and not a nap

He later said… "he voted for blinking before voting against it."

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By Meghan Keneally

Published: 10:22 EST, 4 June 2014 | Updated: 11:44 EST, 4 June 2014

John Kerry has been caught on camera closing his eyes for a possible power nap during a press conference with European leaders yesterday.

The Secretary of State was in Warsaw on Tuesday and was seated next to National Security Advisor Susan Rice as they listened to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski speak at a news conference alongside President Obama at Belweder Palace.

News cameras captured the moment when Kerry closed his eyes, and stayed on him as they remained closed.

Susan Rice said she didn't pass out, she was texting KSM to find out when he wants to get out.

Kerry catches some shut-eye

"It was the video"-reincarniated

"It was the video" 

This recent statement by Susan Rice holds the same validity.

You would have thought this moron would have learned her lesson.

Bergdahl was captured on the “battlefield”?

Later (not included) in this same video Rice says Bergdahl served with "honor and distinction." 

This woman is either the dumbest on the planet Earth or so delusional she'll follow Barry into hell.

She reconstructs the story to sound like he was taken prisoner during a firefight. The truth of the matter was he laid down his helmet and weapon and walked away from his unit. 

(aka AWOL)

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Video 69

Even if you’re a liberal could you seriously fall for this shit?

The 5 for 1 swap? 

Can't help wondering why they're still alive and McVeigh is dead.

"It was the video"-reincarniated

Obama: Congress consulted on prisoner exchange

What utter bullshit!

You also have to think about this concerning the 5 Muslims who were released. How many soldiers gave an arm, a leg, their life, to capture these dogs only to have them released to kill again?

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WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his decision to release five Afghan detainees from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for freeing an American soldier, saying his administration had consulted with Congress about that possibility "for some time."
(Possibility refers to something that " could happen", that is not precluded by the facts, but usually not probable) 

Obama also brushed aside questions about the circumstances surrounding Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's capture (and the resulting six dead who went to look for him)    by insurgents in 2009, saying the U.S. has an obligation to not leave its military personnel behind. (Like Tahmooressi)

"Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get an American solider back if he's held in captivity," Obama said during a news conference in Poland. "We don't condition that." (The "condition" is six dead and the 5 you gave back… how many are they going to kill?)

The Pentagon concluded in 2010 that Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and, after an initial flurry of searching, the military curbed any high-risk rescue plans.

Bergdahl was in stable condition at a U.S. military hospital in Germany. But questions mounted at home over the way his freedom was secured: Five high-level members of the Taliban were released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent to Qatar. The five, who will have to stay in Qatar for a year before going back to Afghanistan, include former ministers in the Taliban government, commanders and one man who had direct ties to the late al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden.

Republicans in Congress criticized the agreement and complained about not having been consulted, citing a law that requires Congress to be given 30 days' notice before a prisoner is released from Guantanamo. Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee said the Pentagon notified the panel by phone on Saturday that the exchange was occurring in the next five hours.

Obama suggested Tuesday that lawmakers were aware of the prospect that the U.S. could agree to a prisoner swap with the Taliban. And he defended how his administration handled the formal notifications, saying that when the opportunity to free Bergdahl presented itself, "We seized that opportunity."

The U.S. and the Taliban negotiated the prisoner exchange indirectly, with the government of Qatar serving as an intermediary. The five Afghan prisoners are now in Qatar and are banned from traveling outside the country for a minimum of one year.

Obama acknowledged that there was always a chance that the released Afghans could return to the Taliban or other groups seeking to harm the U.S. If they take those steps, Obama said the U.S. "will be in a position" to go after them. (Like you did with Mullah Omar)

Barry has proven he can do anything he wants with impunity. Can we really expect the DOJ to do something? They’re nothing more then another arm of the Obama administration.

Obama: Congress consulted on prisoner exchange