Posts Made By: Dave Snope

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#Bergdahl

This is ten times worse than anything that happened at Watergate.

The perversion of law enforcement agencies for political ends is starkly revealed by the fact that in 2010, as part of its effort to stem the Tea Party movement, the IRS gave the FBI disks containing more than 1.1 million pages of documents on Section 501 non-profits, so that the FBI could selectively prosecute conservative groups and donors.

The facts, as we know them so far, were laid out yesterday in a letter from Congressmen Darrell Issa and Jim Jordan to John Koskinen, Commissioner of the IRS. The letter includes a series of emails that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has finally obtained, after more than a year of stonewalling by the Obama administration. The IRS originally told the House committee–falsely–that the disks contained only publicly available filings by the non-profit organizations. But the IRS later admitted that it had illegally transferred confidential taxpayer information to the FBI.

The IRS’s purpose was explicitly political. Sarah Ingram, Lois Lerner’s predecessor in charge of tax-exempt organizations at the IRS, wrote in a September 21, 2010 email, the subject of which was a favorable front-page story in the New York Times:

Thanks, as always, for the excellent support from Media. I do think it came out pretty well. The “secret donor” theme will continue–see Obama salvo today and Diane Reehm (sp).

The reference is to Diane Rehm, an NPR radio host. So the IRS, at its highest levels, was trying to advance the Democratic Party’s “secret donor” theme on the eve of the 2010 election, and breaking the law to do so. Could someone maybe go to jail one of these days?

...ISSA REPORT...

A final thought: I have spent my entire adult life in the world of litigation. It is not unusual for parties to lawsuits to stonewall, to obfuscate, sometimes even to lie, as the Obama administration did here, in order to prevent damaging facts from coming to light. Yet litigants rarely succeed in their stonewalling in the way the Obama administration has successfully stonewalled, time after time.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/06/irs-gave-fbi-1-1-million-pages-of-taxpayer-data-to-encourage-prosecution-of-conservatives.php

Unbelievable. Fire them all.

Washington, DC – Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service informing the Committee that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009 – April 2011. Due to a supposed computer crash, the agency only has Lerner emails to and from other IRS employees during this time frame. The IRS claims it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.

“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.

The daughter of the first American soldier killed in the war in Afghanistan has shared her heartbreak at learning that his killer - a Taliban leader - was freed by the U.S in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl.

Alison Spann was just nine when her father, CIA operative Johnny Micheal Spann, was killed during a prisoner uprising at a compound where he was interrogating Taliban fighters on November 25, 2001.

Mullah Mohammad Fazl, the leader of the prisoners at the compound, ended up in Guantanamo Bay - until two weeks ago when he and four others were switched for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

'My initial reaction was shock,' Spann told Fox. 'I was shocked that our president would release five of the most high-risk prisoners being held in Guantanamo in exchange for one American.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2657451/Daughters-heartbreak-learning-Taliban-leader-responsible-dads-death-9-freed-exchange-Bowe-Bergdahl.html#ixzz34b4eizyP

Teh LBGT victim theater runs strong in this one.

(CNSNews.com) – John Berry, the U.S. Ambassador to Australia, said Barack Obama’s election to president was the “true last closing chapter of our Civil War.”

Berry, who is homosexual and married to a man, was speaking at an event on Tuesday at the Department of the Interior focused on the National Park Service’s (NPS) “theme study” to find and promote places around the United States that are connected to the history of the LGBT “civil rights” struggle.

“I reminded her that it took 100 years to strike off the shackles of slavery,” Berry said he told a woman in Australia who asked about civil rights in America, “and 100 more to write the true last closing chapter of our Civil War with the election of our first African American president, adding that the LGBT movement has benefitted from “his leadership.”

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/gay-us-ambassador-true-last-closing-chapter-our-civil-war-was-obama-s

Is that a smoking gun I smell? It turns out the IRS contracted with a company that provides email backup services starting in 2005. This first came to light in the Twitter feed of moregenr[ed. - researcher for the dearly departed Verum Serum blog], who noticed that the IRS appears on the client list of email archiving service provider Sonasoft.

This was was picked up by Peter Suderman of Reason, who writes:

The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005,according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for “automatic data processing services.” Sonasoft’s motto is “email archiving done right,” and the companylists the IRS as a customer.

In 2009, Sonasoft even sent out a Tweet advertising its work for the IRS.


...a document posted on its website describing its services says that its system "archives all email content and so reduces the risk of non-compliance with legal, regulatory and other obligations to preserve critical business content."



http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/irs_contracted_with_email_archiving_company_in_2005.html

He has no idea what he's reading off the teleprompter:

and so we understand how lucky we are now because there was a big chunk of time when we were doing what so many of you have to deal with everyday and this is figuring out how do we make this whole thing work. a lot of americans are not as lucky as we have been. it is hard sometimes just to get by. our businesses have created jobs for 51 consecutive months. 9.4 new jobs in all. ...

https://grabien.com/file.php?id=20090&searchorder=date

The prime minister of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, says he warned Baghdad and the United States months ago about the threat ISIS posed to Iraq and the group’s plan to launch an insurgency across Iraq. The Kurds even offered to participate in a joint military operation with Baghdad against the jihadists.

Washington didn't respond--a claim that will fuel Republican charges that the Obama administration has been dangerously disengaged from the Middle East. Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki dismissed the warnings, saying everything was under control.

The Kurds' intelligence head, Lahur Talabani, says he handed Washington and London detailed reports about the unfolding threat. The warnings "fell on deaf ears," he says.

Don't call him when he's at the golf course or schmoozing with the wealthy gay donor crowd in Laguna Beach and Palm Springs. Coincidentally, he did get a few things done during this time, though. The border patrol started a program to train agents on LBGT lifestyle so they could better handle any LBGT illegals sneaking in, and got DoD to host a transgender gay pride event in Afghanistan. But when the calls about global conflicts come in, he can't be bothered.

What else is an American citizen supposed to believe?

Tiny fines aren't even a slap on the wrist. People should be going to jail, being fired and prohibited from future government service, and the IRS should be completely overhauled.

The IRS has agreed to pay $50,000 in damages to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) for unlawfully releasing its private information to a gay rights group that is a political rival, the Daily Signal has learned.

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In February 2012, the Human Rights Campaign posted on its web site NOM’s 2008 tax return and the names and contact information of the marriage group’s major donors, including soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. That information then was published by the Huffington Post and other liberal-leaning news sites.

HRC’s president at the time, Joe Solmonese, was tapped that same month as a national co-chairman of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/irs-admits-guilt-in-illegal-release-of-conservative-groups-tax-information/

It's so simple even a caveman can do it. Fire them. These are firing offenses in the private industry. I've seen it done, too. I worked at one corp that had an employee with a similar poop problem. A little surveillance, they guy was caught, and walked out the door on the spot. Another guy was stealing loose change from desks at night. Walked out the door on the spot. Caught not working at the computer on company time? You get a written reprimand and given 30 days to achieve productivity objectives. Then walked out the door because slackers rarely reform.

Pleading with them to stop??? Consulting with an expensive national expert??? Only an idiot bureaucrat in a government management position would think that way.

Can you imagine a small- mid-size business having a person that didn't work all day? You know, like a typical tea partier runs? Every employee has a critical job. There is one accounts receivable person, and if they are looking at porn or playing Candy Crush instead of getting customers to pay, the company goes bankrupt. There is one software guy. If he isn't getting the program to work by the end of the month because he's building his man-cave, the company loses their main customer and dies. In a government job this is a management mystery requiring consultants, meetings, and training and god knows what else. Because going out of business is never the concern. Instead of fixing things they go rent-seeking for more money to make a program write a handbook on how to handle poopers and porners.

Via GovExec:

Environmental Protection Agency workers have done some odd things recently.

Contractors built secret man caves in an EPA warehouse, an employee pretended to work for the CIA to get unlimited vacations and one worker even spent most of his time on the clock looking at pornography.

It appears, however, that a regional office has reached a new low: Management for Region 8 in Denver, Colo., wrote an email earlier this year to all staff in the area pleading with them to stop inappropriate bathroom behavior, including defecating in the hallway.

In the email, obtained by Government Executive, Deputy Regional Administrator Howard Cantor mentioned “several incidents” in the building, including clogging the toilets with paper towels and “an individual placing feces in the hallway” outside the restroom.

Confounded by what to make of this occurrence, EPA management “consulted” with workplace violence “national expert” John Nicoletti, who said that hallway feces is in fact a health and safety risk. He added the behavior was “very dangerous” and the individuals responsible would “probably escalate” their actions.