IRS Emails And Elijah Cummings

I'm no computer genius, but even I knew the malarkey about Lois Lerner's emails being lost was precisely that.  The so-called "loss" was blamed on an alleged "hard-drive crash" of her workstation computer.  Here's a little tid-bit for those unfamiliar with local area networks.  When emails enter and leave a work place, the ultimate origin and destination will be the individual's machine.  But the emails will travel through the office's various network servers.  Copies of all emails will be retained on those servers.  As most know, offices are required to keep archives of their emails.  Lerner's individual workstation may well have suffered a "hard-drive crash"; it doesn't matter.  Copies of those same emails will be retained at the server level.

I've been harping on that little fact on facebook for some time.  It now seems that light-bulbs are illuminating at long last, for an IRS official, Thomas Kane, admits that archive copies may still exist.

From another IRS email comes the news that MD Congressman Elijah Cummings may have requested or directed Lois Lerner to harass True the Vote and its founder, Catherine Engelbrecht.  It certainly might shed some light on Cummings' behavior during the investigative hearings.

Marylanders of the 7th Congressional District!  You have the opportunity this November to oust this man!  Seize it!

Stoplight Connects Some Dots

Stuart Shepard has a plausible theory regarding some of the Obama regime antics of late.

IRS Asked Groups For "Contents Of Their Prayers"

You know, I could be optimistic and opine that the rogue IRS agents were simply "getting religion" and wanted some pointers on how to pray themselves, but I'll leave the sarcasm aside - for now.  A representative from a Texas Tea Party group relates that the IRS asked for back-end access to their website.  Read this from the Gateway Pundit.

Now read this from Breitbart News.  It delves into when the Messiah Most Miserable learned of the naughty foibles of some of these IRS Minions Most Mindless.  He claims he first heard of this from - wait for it! - the news media!  So none of his subordinates thought to tell him?  Uh, huh!  Nice try, Barack - but no cigar!

Below the jump break I'll post two videos from the hearings that are now occurring.  You'll hear the reference to the groups being asked for contents of their prayers.  Kudos to Reps Michael Kelly and Aaron Schock for asking direct questions and for giving these folks some needed reminders that it is We the People who are the ultimate authority, not the IRS.

Critic Of Progressive Katholyc Groups Targeted By IRS

Doctor Ann Hendershott, a sociology professor and Catholic author, found herself undergoing a grueling

audit by the Internal Revenue Service after penning a number of articles critical of the Messiah Most Miserable.  The full Blaze article can be found here.

Although she made no profit from her writing ventures, the IRS demanded to know who paid her.  Moreover, they called her to their office and insisted that she come alone.

It should be noted that she not only criticized Obama in her articles, but also some notoriously left-wing "katholyc" groups, such as "Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good" and "Catholics United".  Hendershott exposed their financial ties to George Soros just a few months prior to the IRS harassment.

Moral of the story - if you criticize the Messiah Most Miserable or even just the Minions Most Mindless, you might get a rap at your door or a phone call.  We trust that they will be so decent as to do so only during waking hours.

However, in all fairness to the Man-Child of the White House, the IRS has been doing such strong-arming long before he was born (wherever that was).  It appears that FDR got them started on their wicked ways and many Dems - and at least one Republican - made use of their arm-twisting tricks.  A Wall Street Journal piece has a decent summary of the IRS's chequered career.

By the way - the Treasury Inspector General's office released its report on the matter.  Go here and download a pdf copy to your own computers.