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Ruh Roh! Federal judge considering independent IT review of "lost" IRS emails
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:27 am
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:27 am
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IRS attorneys will be even busier than normal next week, because another federal judge has told them to show up in court July 11 to defend the federal tax agency.
They will have to explain to U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton why the IRS shouldn't be required to let an outside expert evaluate whether emails on the computer hard drives of former IRS official Lois Lerner and six colleagues really are lost forever, as the agency recently told Congress.
Responding to a motion filed Monday by True the Vote, a Houston-based conservative nonprofit at the center of IRS targeting during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns, Walton issued an order Tuesday to hear arguments next week.
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Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:29 am to udtiger
Why isn't this already being done? As I quipped once, if I deleted a bunch of e-mails to save myself some cash in a divoce settlement, you better believe that the ex's lawyer would have techs dig that stuff up.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:29 am to udtiger
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They will have to explain to U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton why the IRS shouldn't be required to let an outside expert evaluate whether emails on the computer hard drives of former IRS official Lois Lerner and six colleagues really are lost forever, as the agency recently told Congress.
They will claim privacy issues...
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:30 am to Navytiger74
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Why isn't this already being done?
This
Although I assume the agency response would be similar to that of the independent prosecutor question that it would cost the taxpayers too much
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:30 am to Navytiger74
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Why isn't this already being done?
I haven't read the pleadings in the case, but I suspect that the IRS has cited a bunch of privacy laws (and the story implies that, just like Congress, the plaintiff only just found out from IRS that these e-mails were "lost").
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:38 am to Lsut81
quote:Privacy issues may apply to some of the content, but not to the ability to recover the information. If the outside expert determines the information is recoverable, then the IRS has been willfully ignoring an obligation to produce specific information that is not covered by any privacy laws. That is what Judge Walton will rule on.
They will claim privacy issues...
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:40 am to udtiger
I don't care if they were appointed by Clinton, Bush, or Obama. Any Federal Judge would be fuming if a party tried to pull an obvious spoliation move like this.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:43 am to Rickety Cricket
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Any Federal Judge would be fuming if a party tried to pull an obvious spoliation move like this.
Unless they were a complete hack.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:48 am to udtiger
Hoping he stays on this. Would like some judicial review of the facts. Right now, we have to accept what the IRS said. No indpendent information is available.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 8:58 am to Wolfhound45
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Right now, we have to accept what the IRS said.
I don't accept what they said and don't think anyone else with half a brain in their heads do either.
Posted on 7/3/14 at 9:02 am to udtiger
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Unless they were a complete hack.
I don't think this judge is a complete hack, in fact he'll be criticized since he's a Bush 43 appointee.
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He handled the cases involving Scooter Libby and Roger Clemens.
And speaking of baseball, he's from the same small town as Hall of Famer Stan Musial.
This post was edited on 7/3/14 at 9:04 am
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