@Baldimo,
Baldimo wrote:
I show concern for the current party in power. Bush isn't currently in power, what good does my concern show now? Can we do anything to change what Bush did? No we can't, so why should I be upset or be concerned about it now. You are now deflecting.
To be honest we still don't know if Obama or anyone directly connected to the White House directed anything. We don't have all the emails yet do we?
Now you are going to play this "what did she do wrong game"? I'll say this, if she did nothing wrong why did she plead the 5th, twice? Why are there so many emails missing from at least 5 different people who would all be involved with said targeting? Why has the IRS not followed the law in regards to important documents and backup procedures? Why was Lerner so concerned with the saving and backups of emails and chat sessions if the IRS and her group were doing nothing wrong?
I guess we will get some answers to some of these questions in the near future. I federal judge has ordered an appearance from someone in the IRS to answer some questions about the "missing" emails and why?
Why are you not upset about the missing emails? According to your statement before, this also makes you a partisan worrier. When the GOP does it, it bothers you. When your party does it, "meh", Bush did it first.
First, there is not a shred of evidence that any of the missing emails contain anything incriminating. If they did, why did Lerner work so hard to restore the emails. A number of people evidently had their hard drives crash, but it was shown that, each year, five percent or so of hard drives crash. This was esp;ecially so at the IRS, which, due to Rep budget cuts, was still using Windows XP, wich Microsoft doesn't even support these days.
Since Lerner is the focus of a massive witch-hunt, I am sure her lawyer properly told her to take the fifth. Any lawyer would do this. Why would she voluntarily subject herself to having Trey Gowdy screaming at her as though he were a Hitler prosecutor. Moreover, there is still no evidence of criminality on her part. Further, the Reps can make her talk at any time by granting her immunity from self-incrimination. The Reps don't want to do this because they know they have nothing on her, and this would put a crimp on their efforts to embarrass the administration.
As I said before, this all started with a mid-level manager, who happens to be a conservative Republican, who decided to segregate applications from right-wing organization to ease processing. The Reps will never tell you this.
Btw, why did the Reps do nothing when GWB destroyed about 26 million emails during the investigation of U. S. Attorney firings, etc. ?