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Friday, July 11, 2014

Lois Lerner Email: Congress Searches, ‘So We Need to be Cautious About What We Say in Emails’

This blows the lid off!

But will she ever be prosecuted?

Lets face it. Since Barry's initial "outrage" over the IRS scandal he has shown no interest in it whatsoever.

Why?

Because he initiated it... or at the very least is covering it up.

Smidgen plead the 5th, then warned her co-conspirators Congress may be reading their emails so they better watch what they say. She also wanted to make sure the emails are not "searchable". Next all the emails mysteriously disappear... and its all one big f------ coincidence.

Can anyone in the MSM connect the dots?

Does she need to sign an affidavit admitting guilt before she is prosecuted!

(Check out the emails-
read from bottom up)

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Lois (The Smidgen) Lerner

(CNSNews.com) – Newly released emails from the IRS show that Lois Lerner, while head of the Exempt Organizations Unit, sent emails expressing concern about Congress requesting emails from the IRS and cautioning other employees about the electronic searches.

When she learned that Office Communications Server (OCS) messages were not set to automatically save, Lerner wrote, “Perfect.” OCS is a form of online chat system that circumvents email.

“We know Miss Lerner’s not being square with the American people” and “we know she can’t be trusted,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) while analyzing the emails during a July 9 hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations.

At the hearing, “Examining Solutions to Close the $106 Billion Improper Payments Gap,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) questioned IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about emails showing that Lerner was concerned about the IRS's OCS system.

http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/documents/Lerner-Hooke%20Emails.pdf

Jordan asked Kokinen: “Three weeks ago, in front of the Ways and Means Committee, you testified, actually we have it on the screen here, Lois Lerner was not trying to destroy email, in fact she was working very hard to restore her emails, do you stand by that statement?”

“As far as I know, yes,” Koskinen said.

“I want to show you a few emails that you’ve had a chance to review now,” Jordan said. “We got these on July 3rd, 4 o’clock, and I want to show you three emails out of 15,000 that you dumped on us on July 3rd. This one is Lois Lerner to Maria Hooke.”

Jordan then began to quote the e-mail. “I had a question today about OCS,” Lerner stated in the e-mail. “I was cautioning folks about email, how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails -- so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails” – because Congress might get a hold of them and the Americna people might actually find out what the IRS is doing. But then she closes, “Someone asked if OCS conversations were also searchable.”

http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/documents/Lerner-Hooke%20Emails.pdf

(The final two sentences in that Apr. 9, 2013 e-mail read, "Someone asked if OCS conversations were also searchable -- I don't know, but told them I would get back to them. Do you know?")

http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/documents/Lerner-Hooke%20Emails.pdf

Jordan then asked the IRS commissioner: “Now, you’re response to the Chairman [Issa] was that you don’t know anything about OCS. Is that true, you have no idea what this system is?”

“Correct,” Koskinen said.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. (AP)

(aka The Lying Snake)

Jordan continued: “It’s our understanding--and after our staff did some background work--that this is an intra-office instant messaging chat-type system that you have in place at the Internal Revenue Service and this was followed up by a response from Ms. Hooke. So, remember, Ms. Lerner says, ‘I had a question about OCS,’ then Ms. Hooke responds back, ‘OCS messages are not set to automatically save as the standard.’ You follow me, Mr. Koskinen?” Jordan asked.

“Right along with you,” Koskinen said.

“I appreciate it, and then of course the response from Ms. Lerner is ‘perfect,’” Jordan said.

Jordan then recapped the IRS scandal: “Here’s what I see. Maybe you see something different, but this is what I see. And my guess is the American people see this. At our last hearing, we learned that on June 3, 2011, Chairman Camp sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service saying, hey, we’re concerned about what we think may be targeting of conservative groups. Ten days later, June 13, 2011, a bunch of computers mysteriously crash, including Lois Lerner’s computer.”

“Now we jump forward, March 28, 2013,” said Jordan, “and the Inspector General gives the Internal Revenue Service a discussion draft report, his audit. And you all learn--you weren’t there at the time--but the IRS learns, and specifically Ms. Lerner learns that you've been caught with your hands in the cookie jar and that, in fact, targeting was going on and now the Inspector General knows it.”

“And so, 12 days later, we get this email exchange that we just went through where Ms. Lerner says, wow, I know I’ve gotten rid of the e-mails when the computer crashed two years earlier, but I better double-check on this intra-office instant messaging capability we have here at the Internal Revenue Service, and she says ‘perfect’ when she learns that it’s not traceable, not trackable, not stored,” Jordan said.

“We know Miss Lerner’s not being square with the American people. Remember, it was just 31 days after this e-mail exchange right here. Thirty-one days later, she went to a Bar Association speech here in town, and told the whole world Washington had nothing to do--even though she’s trying to make sure her tracks are covered--she told the whole world, Washington didn’t have anything to do with it, it’s a couple rogue agents, couple line agents in Cincinnati. So we know she can’t be trusted, but what I want to know is why did it take us this long to get these e-mails?” said Jordan. “We’ve been after these for six months and you dump them on us on July 3.”

Koskinen claimed he had never seen the e-mail from Lerner to Hooke, and was unfamiliar with the OCS communication system.

The news of the OCS communication system comes after a long investigation of the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups and their applications for tax-exemption status. Before she resigned from the IRS in September 2013, Lerner was the director of the Exempt Organizations Unit. When called to testify twice before Congress about the IRS-Tea Party scandal, Lerner pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination.

Since May 2013, House investigations have requested testimony and documents on communications from Lerner and other IRS officials.

Our forefathers wrote the Constitution to protect us against the events occurring almost daily in this administration. Now we need someone to enforce it.

I feel his frustration

Boehner goes off on the situation Barry created on the border.

(If video won't load click post title)

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Mr. Speaker don't expect any help from the MSM. They're about as interested in what you have to say as they are investigating missing IRS emails.

How absurd is this?

Barry's spending $3.7 billion of taxpayer money to… "address the issue at the border".

Hope Perry and the rest of the Republicans don't fall for this crap.

According to Louie Gohmert less than 3% of this money is actually going to secure the border. The rest is for taking care of illegals and providing lawyers and judges to help facilitate their citizenship.

So the US taxpayer is paying almost $3.7 billion to convert illegals into American citizens!

Bet 90% of them don't even know it.

BTW... No one in the MSM calls them illegals anymore. They have to tow the line. So they're referred to as "undocumented workers" or "migrants". Reid once called them "undocumented Americans". Lately they morphed into "refugees". MSNBC is describing them as "freedom fighters". Matt Lauer recently christened them "refugee riders". You know, just like Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders.

Its like the old saying... if you say it long enough people will believe it. Perception becomes reality. All you need is a complicit media and a citizenry dumb enough to believe it.

We have an abundance of both.

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Obama Ensares Perry and Other Repubican 2016 Candidates

President Barack Obama has mastered the art of neutralizing political foes with niceties, and now he can add Governor Rick Perry, a Texas Republican, to the list.

Obama and Perry had a "constructive" discussion and a "good exchange of ideas," the president told reporters yesterday after the two men talked immigration policy. "There's nothing that he indicated that he would like to see that I have a philosophical objection to," Obama said.

For Perry, who is considering a bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, the like-minded exchange with Obama may help his state cope with the stream of undocumented minors crossing the U.S. southern border while becoming a political liability in a quest for higher office. It's a partisan play employed by a White House that has damaged other Republicans with their own party's base.

Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman's 2012 White House ambitions were undermined when he entered the race as Obama's former U.S. ambassador toChina. Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist wound up switching parties after Republicans hammered him for expressing thanks -- with a hug -- to the president as Obama visited his state to pitch his 2009 economic stimulus package. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie -- another 2016 presidential prospect -- took similar barbs from fellow Republicans after praising the White House's response to 2012's Hurricane Sandy.

Perry, who has been critical of federal government spending, vacillated in his public posture toward Obama's visit. After initially saying he wouldn't greet Obama on the tarmac at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, he then opted to participate in the ritual presidential handshake -- an image prominently captured by the news media.

Perry's Gamble

Perry's gamble is that appearing with Obama and asking for federal money to help with the immigration crisis won't tarnish the Washington-outsider brand he's trying to develop.

"Perry previously thrived among Republican base voters when he was seen as being the candidate to best prosecute a case against Washington and the Obama administration policies coming out of Washington," said Kevin Madden, an adviser to 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. "I don't know if this alters that."

The upside for Perry is that images of him climbing onto Marine One, the president's helicopter, for a 15-minute ride and session with Obama will make him look more presidential to independent voters.

"Meeting with the president and advocating for better border security can do nothing but help the governor," said Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who sits on the House Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Control.

Not Enough

Perry, in a press release after their meeting, sought some distance with the president, saying Obama hasn't done enough to stop illegal immigration.

"Five hundred miles south of here in the Rio Grande Valley there is a humanitarian crisis unfolding that has been created by bad public policy, in particular the failure to secure the border," Perry said. "Securing the border is attainable, and the president needs to commit the resources necessary to get this done."

Obama parried, saying in a news conference after the get-together that there wasn't really much daylight between them on responding to the influx of children from Central America who have been traversing Mexico and crossing into Texas.

"The things that the governor thinks are important to do would be a lot easier to do if we had this supplemental," Obama said, urging Perry to get the Texas congressional delegation to support his request for $3.7 billion to address the issue. "It gives us the resources to do them."

Republican Reservations

Republicans in Congress are balking at the administration's call for the additional spending, which would be used to bolster security, care for the children who arrived in the U.S., and send some of them back to their countries of origin.

Even if Perry joins Obama in pushing for the plan, such efforts likely will fall upon deaf ears within a Texas congressional delegation that Republicans dominate.

Smith said Obama "doesn't need a dollar more" to fix the current crisis.

"The president has it within his power right now to send the right message, which is that he will enforce current immigration laws and that would greatly reduce the surge of illegal minors coming across the borders," Smith said.

Still, Texas Republicans -- including Perry -- may find themselves caught in a bind.

Federal Reimbursements

The Texas Conservative Coalition, a group of state lawmakers, sent a letter to the congressional delegation yesterday supporting a federal reimbursement of $68 million in state funds spent on combating the immigration crisis. The letter was agnostic on the question of whether Texas's two U.S. senators and its 36-member House delegation should support the president's package.

"We respectfully ask that you reimburse Texas for the full cost of our border security law enforcement surge, whether you grant the president's emergency supplemental appropriations request or not," the coalition wrote.

The complexities of immigration politics may help Perry with some fellow Republicans.

James Carafano, a vice president at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based group often aligned with the small-government Tea Partymovement, said Perry's request for federal assistance to backstop state efforts is appropriate.

"This is one legitimate thing where the state is actually helping the federal government out," Carafano said. "Securing the border is a federal responsibility."