Stop with your lies
The IRS was hit by a broadside in court today:
Sullivan has a reputation as a hard-nosed judge with no tolerance for government corruption. He lambasted the Justice Department in the Ted Stevens case for withholding evidence. What he has told the IRS is that they are quite obviously not telling him the truth and they therefore have one month to get their story straight. If they come back with the same excuses in a month, people will start going to jail.
This is even more interesting because it is essentially a de facto special prosecutor. A little Googling of Judge Facciola shows that he is a specialist in handling computer fraud and electronic forensics cases. By bringing him into the case, Sullivan basically told the IRS he didn't believe them when they say every computer with any trace of the emails in question suddenly crashed simultaneously. If there was tampering, Facciola will find out about it and report such back to Sullivan. When that happens, things will start to get really uncomfortable for Ms Lerner and Mr Koskinen.
At that point the game changes dramatically. With clear evidence that the IRS deliberately destroyed incriminating evidence, the White House will be in a real pickle, because "the janitor did it" will no longer sound remotely plausible to anyone -- least of all to a federal judge who is already mistrustful of this administration from past experience.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court in Washington gave the Internal Revenue Service exactly a month — until Aug. 10 — to file a report, which he demanded as part of a lawsuit from a conservative watchdog, Judicial Watch, against the agency.
Sullivan has a reputation as a hard-nosed judge with no tolerance for government corruption. He lambasted the Justice Department in the Ted Stevens case for withholding evidence. What he has told the IRS is that they are quite obviously not telling him the truth and they therefore have one month to get their story straight. If they come back with the same excuses in a month, people will start going to jail.
As part of his ruling, Sullivan also ordered Judicial Watch and the IRS to work with another federal judge, John Facciola, to find out how many of Lerner’s emails can be found through other methods.
This is even more interesting because it is essentially a de facto special prosecutor. A little Googling of Judge Facciola shows that he is a specialist in handling computer fraud and electronic forensics cases. By bringing him into the case, Sullivan basically told the IRS he didn't believe them when they say every computer with any trace of the emails in question suddenly crashed simultaneously. If there was tampering, Facciola will find out about it and report such back to Sullivan. When that happens, things will start to get really uncomfortable for Ms Lerner and Mr Koskinen.
At that point the game changes dramatically. With clear evidence that the IRS deliberately destroyed incriminating evidence, the White House will be in a real pickle, because "the janitor did it" will no longer sound remotely plausible to anyone -- least of all to a federal judge who is already mistrustful of this administration from past experience.
posted by Jar(egg)head at 15:44
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Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence. But this positively reeks of a cover-up. In a previous life, I spent 16 years working with and managing networks of computers. Nobody with as much money as the Federal government has such shoddy records management and data safeguarding as the IRS would have us believe. They show no proof of a crashed PC either, since the evidence of such has been destroyed. I am not buying a millisecond of it.
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