July 11, 2014 – 7:53 am
Remember, not a smidgen of corruption. Fortunately, Obama will get to the bottom of the issue while ignoring the border and hitting a barbecue place (Fox News) A federal judge has ordered the IRS to explain “under oath” how the agency lost a trove of emails from the official at the heart of the Tea […]
June 27, 2014 – 9:02 am
Her official emails? Not so much (Fox News) Computer experts and Republican lawmakers are poking holes in IRS claims that the agency did all it could to retrieve embattled ex-official Lois Lerner’s allegedly “lost” emails, which the agency blames on a 2011 hard-drive crash. (snip) But Lerner’s communications with the agency’s IT team referred to […]
June 25, 2014 – 6:43 am
Who would have thought it? (NY Times) The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report a hard drive crash that destroyed emails belonging to a senior official at the center of a scandal over the agency’s treatment of conservative-leaning political groups, the nation’s top archivist said Tuesday. “In accordance […]
June 19, 2014 – 7:31 am
That “phony scandal” and “wacky conspiracy theory”, an issue that happened because of some “rogue agents” and set of coincidences, sure seems to be getting more legit every day. Here’s the latest (Politico) Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the […]
June 18, 2014 – 7:10 am
This whole thing with the “lost” emails is looking less like expected government incompetence and more like a conspiracy to cover up malfeasance. The IRS “lost” the email records of 6 other employees involved in the IRS scandal. Imagine what would happen if the IRS came calling for your tax records and you said you […]
June 14, 2014 – 2:54 pm
Remember this tweet from a post yesterday? https://twitter.com/brooks_rosa/statuses/477255213640728577 Uh huh (The Hill) Russia has supplied Ukrainian separatists with tanks, rocket launchers and other military vehicles, the State Department said Friday. A convoy of three Russian tanks crossed the border near the Ukrainian town of Snizhne, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Friday. U.S. intelligence also indicates that […]
June 12, 2014 – 6:45 am
It would have been nice to hear this from the Attorney General, announcing that he is Doing His Job. Alas, no (Fox News) FBI Director James Comey confirmed Wednesday that the bureau’s Phoenix branch has opened a criminal investigation of the Veterans Affairs Department, amid mounting calls on Capitol Hill for the Justice Department to […]
June 10, 2014 – 8:33 am
In relation to Bowe Bergdahl, Obama has said many times since the swap “We don’t leave men and women in uniform behind”, or something to that tune. He even doubled down by adding “We don’t condition that.†Of course, the issue isn’t Bergdahl, but a failure to notify Congress and, #1, trading 5 high ranking Taliban […]
June 8, 2014 – 8:02 am
I’m surprised NY Times writers, Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Eric Schmitt, didn’t just straight out Blame Bush Bergdahl Was in Unit Known for Its Troubles The platoon was, an American military official would assert years later, “raggedy.†On their tiny, remote base, in a restive sector of eastern Afghanistan at an increasingly violent time […]
June 6, 2014 – 7:11 am
The hit parade keeps coming (Wall Street Journal) A federal watchdog is investigating allegations of dozens of complaints of backlash against whistleblowers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a release Thursday. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, a federal body that protects government employees from improper employment practices, including backlash against whistleblowers, announced […]
