There should also be an investigation of Lerner's husband, whose law firm represents clients before the IRS. Conflict of interest, anyone?

These folks are true believers. You might call them the jihadists of the O administration. Any action is allowed which advances the cause.

But, the DOJ lawyer argued, it would be too tough to retrieve those emails from the boundless trove of government data

More lies. Using current technology, and I have been in IT for 30 years, simple data searches are used all the time to narrow specific searches and scan through billions of emails. The Government mandates ALL corporations perform these searches in the event of SEC investigations. HP, IBM, and many other companies sell products and have ever since Sarbanes-Oxley came out and companies had to comply with.

SOX Section 404: Management Assessment of Internal Controls
All annual financial reports must include an Internal Control Report stating that management is responsible for an "adequate" internal control structure, and an assessment by management of the effectiveness of the control structure. Any shortcomings in these controls must also be reported. In addition, registered external auditors must attest to the accuracy of the company management's assertion that internal accounting controls are in place, operational and effective.

SOX Section 409 - Real Time Issuer Disclosures
Companies are required to disclose on a almost real-time basis information concerning material changes in its financial condition or operations.

Section 409 includes e-mails, since e-mails are not excluded. Controls also include e-mails.

More Government lies about this being too tough. The problem is they (government) knows that the smoking gun is there and implicates Obama and Jarret directly.

How can this be? Our Dear Leader told us that “This is the most transparent administration in history...”

This story must be part of a vast right-wing conspiracy to derail the agenda of Our Dear Leader, The One, Barack Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm).

This may turn out to be another case of the cover up being worse than the original crime. At some point some one has to panic and come forward. Hope it's soon.

NIXON WATERGATE media...crickets

Want to wipe out IRS corruption? Repeal the 16th Amendment. Come to think of it, that would wipe out most of the rest of the government as well. As long as we keep sending trillions to Washington, it is going to be a cesspool of corruption and crime, going far beyond this IRS scandal. The only way to change that is to restore people's second most important right (behind the right of self-defense); the right to their own honestly acquired income.

How is this ever going to get cleared up short of a rebellion? The inmates are running the asylum.

This morning, Alan Colmes was falling all over himself defending the IRS.

This is really, really bad.

We need to wipe out the IRS and start over with appropriate protections against this vindictive, illegal, unconstitutional behavior.

Something stinks at to high heaven at the IRS. The latest abuse is scammers filing electronic returns using stolen identity. The returns have bogus information and a large refund. If the taxpayers return is filed by mail then the IRS tries to collect the lost money from the people filing the legitimate return. It is then up to the legitimate tax payer to prove that they have been the victim of identity theft. The IRS has to be one of the most dysfunctional and irresponsible organizations on the planet.

I think we've all known, even the founders, that government, and those attracted to it, are essentially corrupt and we've all accepted a certain level of that as the 'cost of having government'. But the last three, maybe four administrations have taken us several steps too far and the true shame is we've let them. But this administration is so blatant as to just not even care to try to make the machinations and deceit believable or at least hidden behind credible deniability.

Obama promised transparency, and in a way he's given it to us -- we're beginning to see just how corrupt and insensitive to The Constitution our government truly is. And we're learning that just being left alone on a day to day basis isn't cutting it any more-we really weren't being left alone at all. We just weren't all aware.

Maybe now we're becoming aware enough. Maybe they acted a little too soon.

I try and stay motivated to read the details of how yet again big government is corrupt and participating in criminal activity - obstruction of justice and more in this case.
But the general story always seem to be the same - yet they get re-elected in both the executive and legislative branches.
I think I mostly shrugged over 20 years ago regarding the 2 entrenched established political parties in the US.

Hello? Is anyone paying attention to what is going on? (I mean looters and sleepwalkers, of course.). Just one of obummers numerous scandals would have impeached any other president. If he was Republican, they would probably have lynched him!

There is a huge opportunity in this IRS scandal for a few investigative journalists to catapult their careers. There is plenty of chum in the water....

Since the DOJ now (after months of not being transparent) admits the information (emails) are available but "it would be too hard" to get them and really, "they don't want to.": http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/386...

government employed people protect other government employed people.

Ignore that person behind the curtain.

Nothing to see here move along. Calm before the storm and you just can't make this crap up. History will avail.

I though that after the Clinton Administration, Washington insiders could sink no lower. Bush didn't raise the level of integrity, but I figured when Obama got in, we were already scraping the bottom. Was I ever wrong! This regime has sunk below the bottom if such a thing is possible. It's not only the fact that there's scandal after scandal, but scandal on top of scandal, and it is done with such arrogance and disdain for public perception that makes the frustration of having to endure their existence intolerable.

She was issued a new blackberry Valentine’s Day?