Juan Williams: “This whole idea that we’re now to Watergate and burning tapes … I mean that … you’d have to … that’s quite a leap for me.”
George Will: “It’s a leap when six, not only Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashes 10 days after they get the letter from Dave Camp, the chairman of the appropriate committee, but SIX others do?!? Including those of the person who was the Chief of Staff to the IRS commission who was fired. And you know what the response to this is – Charles talks about the incompetence demonstrated here and that’s the default explanation of what government does a lot of the time – but the beauty of this – it’s almost an elegant thing – Commissioner Koskinen has said, as the perfect bureaucrat would, that all of this is evidence that the IRS needs a bigger appropriation so it can get better computers.”
Watching Juan Williams, one can’t help but remember this guy.
Update: Bill O’Reilly illustrates the rampant media coverup of this story.
This idea seems to be catching on.
http://weaselzippers.us/191205-unreal-now-the-epa-says-it-lost-emails-from-employee-who-refused-to-be-interviewed-by-oversight-committee/
Will hard drive manufacturers begin marketing their units as “Gov’t Crash Proof”?
Yeah! it’s because they are operating Microsoft XP
Juan William just can’t believe Obama is 1/2 white
Juan Williams is a coward, or a fool.
Where are the FBI? Or do they have government issued Obama knee-pads too? Where are the hard drives? I have had near failures but never a complete failure with the crap computers I use.
Hard drives that not only crashed but were so badly destroyed that no files were recoverable.
None.
Nada.
Zilch.
Butkus.
Rien
Zero.
Right. A very, very rare event happened 7 times, all at once.
Right
I suspect that the IRS lacks the wherewithal to make these emails ‘disappear’. However, the NSA could certainly accomplish this–at the request of the Administration. Something is rotten…very rotten.
He’s neither. He thinks the people watching are fools.
You know, the IRS was force to pay $50,000 in legal fees for ‘inadvertently’ leaking a donor list from a conservative organization that ended up in the hands of the Obama Campaign and was printed in the Huffington Post, and contained Mitt Romney’s name.
This happened yesterday. The settlement. Of course we won’t get to the bottom of it because one of the perps took the fifth.
‘Testifying under oath in a deposition as part of the lawsuit filed in U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Meisel invoked his Fifth
Amendment right not to incriminate himself and declined to disclose the
identity of his “conduit.”‘
So nobody can prove illegality in the release of the names, which, if intentional is a felony punishable by up to five years in federal prison. My question is, “why did they have the names in the first place?”
Lois Lerner gives us an answer in her apology:
“They also sent some letters out that were far too broad, asking questions of these organizations that weren’t really necessary for the type of application. In some cases you probably read that they asked for contributor names. That’s not appropriate, not usual,” – Lois Lerner’s apology.
So they never should have asked for the information in the first place, and this goes right back to the center of the scandal.
Why doesn’t the Justice Department do something? It is run by Eric Holder, is he going to investigate Obama’s allies? He runs the FBI.
Those of us south of the border have seen this movie before, with Richard Nixon and John Mitchell in the roles of Obama and Holder.
Juan Williams: “This whole idea that we’re now to Watergate and burning tapes … I mean that … you’d have to … that’s quite a leap for me.”
Too bad they didn’t have Bob Woodward of Watergate fame on the panel.
Mr. Woodward could have pointed out that this isn’t such a big leap.
I’ve recovered an entire drive for my daughter recently; this isn’t rocket science.
The “Citadel of Falsehoods on the Potomac” would have you swallow Jonah AND THE WHALE!
Nobody believes any of this rubbish; but have the strong conviction that this is obviously the willful destruction of records, as it would likely be proof positive of criminality.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
Hans, there are companies out there that can recover most of these things in damn near no time. How hard is it to pull a HD and ship it to such a company, no need to even bring experts in, it’s cheaper, faster, and better (greater chance of recovery) to send the damn thing out. What they need to do is bring in a recover expert to testify, and then demand to have access to those tried and failed, and have Gowdy grill the fools.
John I-Donated-$100,000-To-The-Democrat-Party Koskinen’s feigned ignorance on computers is laughable. He was the Federal Bureaucrat in charge of Y2K (remember that one? The one where the world was going to implode on New Year’s Eve ….) in 1998-1999-2000!!! To listen to his testimony, you’d think he doesn’t know how to turn on a computer.
And how – precisely – does a career government employee come up with $100,000 to donate to politicians anyway ……
No wonder it’s a “leap” for williams; after six plus years of drinking obama’s bathwater, juan’s cognitive abilities are a bit waterlogged.
mhb23re
Computers, you can’t handle better computers!
And they just happened to cancel their email backup service as the investigation started. Oops!
And even if they cancelled the contract. What did the company do with the tapes or discs that they were backed up to? Did they just throw them away? A back up is a physical thing. It doesn’t just vanish into smoke when the contracts over. Where are the back ups that company made for them?
I have a leap for you.
Juan Williams can tie his own shoes. There’s a leap for you.
That’s what rational people are up against.
Great point and I’m a bettin’ that the answer is in the non-disclosure contract that the company signed with the IRS.
What are the odds that the ‘back-up’ company is a Dem oriented outfit which will be less that forthcoming?
Think the Obama regime is a criminal enterprise fostered by a culture of corruption that the American public has winked at for so long that there is no cure?
Bottom line, at the end of Obama’s tenure, the U.S. President has a power that Kings no longer have. He can pardon everyone, and even himself, from transgressions not even yet discovered.
I disagree Ed and Gellen. Juan is like an abused wife. He “knows” that the Democrat party loves him, and he loves it, so the hurt it keeps applying to him must be his fault. He can’t understand why it keeps hurting him (and might not even try), but he knows that he has to protect the one he loves and that someday it will love him again like it did at the beginning, and everything will be wonderful again.
fred, when I change computers, and that is not often, I completely destroy the hard drives. even a tv forensic scientist could not retrieve anything. that does take some work and if the IRS did it it sure would be noticed.
“Why doesn’t the Justice Department do something? It is run by Eric Holder”
Bingo. Remember that Holder made some noise about leaving towards the end of Obama’s first term, but Obama (and presumably Jarrett) convinced him to stay. Holder is the gatekeeper; so long as he is AG, absolutely NOTHING will be done about the legion of scandals Obama and his cronies have perpetrated. I expect Holder to stay right until the day Obama leaves office. Holder is so corrupt, so beholden to Obama & VJ, and so compliant to their desires that any other AG would be a downgrade in their eyes. They simply won’t risk it.
IRS: Our multiple redundant, raid, blade, and storage arrays failed so badly that we only lost “specific” emails from the .pst files. In fact, it was so bad that the arrays automatically rebuilt them, and “forgot” to rebuild them from the mirrors, even though we have 5/9’s(99.999%) uptime.
This entire thing fails so badly to anyone who has spent any time in IT, or worked in an industry where computers are life, and regular “to the minute” backups exist. The hearing would do a hell of a job to get a senior admin either current or retired for a fortune 100 company in there to grill the entire IT dept.