We now know, without doubt (as of Friday the 13th, that the Administration's IRS is hiding evidence that is so critical to the truth, that it has decided to take the heat as it willfully destroys that evidence, ala, Richard Nixon.

Remember when the IRS Commissioner,  John Koskinen, told the House Oversight Committee,  nearly three months ago  (March 26, 2014),  that the requested, Lois Lerner,  emails  (two years of such documents) could take years to fulfill?   You shuld note,  that at or close to 5:03 on this video feed,  the smart-ass/arrogant Koskinen,  clearly says,  ". . .  they are there but we have to   . . . ."  

Well,  now,  as of yesterday,  the newest revelation is this:  “Gee,  somehow,  Ms Lerner’s hard drive was faulty, and all those emails,  all two years of them,  have been lost."  

Here is the Committee's response to this preposterous lie  (I mean,  one minute, "The emails are there," and the next minute,  they were lost more than a year ago,  at SAME TIME,  the Committee was being told,  "They are there."  

 Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service informing the Committee that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009 – April 2011. Due to a supposed computer crash, the agency only has Lerner emails to and from other IRS employees during this time frame. The IRS claims it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.

“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.

“Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise. Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies. Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone. This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner. The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.”

Look,   when an Administration is as morally corrupt as was the Nixon Administration,  well,  you are corrupt as you can become.  Finally,  after all these years,  Obama is being compared to Nixon,  not Carter  --  and the comparison(s) is damning.      

Here is the newest revelation,  totally unbelievable,  framing the newest lie coming from Obama's IRS.  Time for a special presectuor

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Updates and after-notes:  

The basis for my comments and the quotes/video,  above,  come from Human Events, here.  

Update: The IRS has rules requiring hard-copy backups of the emails it claims were utterly lost when Lois Lerner’s computer “crashed.”  From The Blaze:

A review of presidents from Truman to Obama - Obama very nearly has the record.

Editor's notes: lets put Obama's polling numbers into context beginning with Truman. We use the charting services found at the Wall Street Journal here.

Truman began his tenure as president with the decision to use the Atomic bomb. On the WSJ chart, this decision was an extremely unpopular idea. Public opinion for this president was the most erratic for any president since and including Truman. Eisenhower followed Truman and scored the most consistently high marks for this group of politicians. Kennedy, in spite of the fact that he was our first Catholic President, also proved to be a very popular Executive. LBJ took the Helm after the murder of JFK and was elected to a full term as president. The Viet Nam War was raging and the Marxist Libs were able to orchestrate a national rebellion to that war that eventually made victory impossible. LBJ wound up with a popular polling number in the 40 percentile bracket, but not until after his 3rd year as president. Nixon followed JBJ, who decided not to run for a second full term, opening the door for the Nixon ascension. He ended the Viet Nam war but was destroyed by the Watergate Scandal. While the scandal itself, was a rather minor offense, the lying and cover up consumed Nixon and revealed a very immoral Chief of Administration. Midknight Review sees Nixon as our most immoral president, but his numbers did not go into the tank until Watergate and the events leading up to his forced resignation (under threat of a successful impeachment). Gerald Ford was the Speaker of House during the Nixon Administration. He was moved to the Vice President's position after Spiro Agnew, Nixon's VP, proved to be a crook and was forced out of office. After Nixon's resignation near the beginning of his second term, Ford took over as President, the first to be VP and President without having been elected to either position. One of his first actions as President was to pardon Richard Nixon. That sealed his doom and he was defeated in his effort at being elected . . . . defeated by Jimmy Carter. Carter proved to be in over his head on at least two levels - foreign policy and homeland economics. Iran took American hostages and held them for 444 days, Carter having no clue on what to do to get these Americans back home. And then there was the matter of the national economy. Unemployment benefit rates rose to 13% and interest rates rose to above 21%, bringing to a complete halt construction and housing sales. Carter was a much a Marxist as Obama, but not nearly as well schooled in the Marxist tradition. His presidency was beyond pathetic. Carter was this editor's reason for leaving the Democrat Party. Reagan ran and won against Carter. After 444 days, the hostages were released the afternoon Reagan was sworn in as president. His tax policies were quickly enacted but did not go into effect for two years. Ultimately, his tax cuts counted for a doubling of income from taxation but a Democrat controlled Congress managed to do what they always do and spend more than the Government took in from the wildly successful Reagan tax cuts. The eight years of Reagan were followed by four years of Bush 41 and his infamous "read my lips, no more taxes." This turned out to be a lie and he lost to Clinton in an election Clinton would not have won had it not been for the 19% vote count given to Ross Perot. Clinton won two elections, never with more than 48% of the vote, but wound up being more popular in the end than in the beginning. Bush 43 won the nation's closest election ever against Fat Al Gore, all of us voters waiting from election night, November 7, 2000, until December the 13th and the Democrat filled Florida Supreme Court to decide in Bush's favor. While the whiners on the Left have never moved away from this election result, they never mention the fact that had Gore won his home state of Tennessee, Florida would not have mattered at all. In fact, if he had won Clinton's state of Arkansas, that too would have given the election to Gore. What we are saying is this: Gore did not lose the 2000 election because of Florida. Rather he lost because he could not convince the peoples of either Arkansas or Tennessee that he deserved to be President. But the press and the Marxists will continue to whine about Florida without regard to the facts of the election. Something we should have mentioned but left out is the fact that while we waited for Court's decision, there were 8 "recounts," Bush winning each and every one.

Under Clinton, there was a separation of powers within the intelligence community (FBI, SS, CIA among others) orchestrated by Jamie Gorelick, Clinton's Deputy Attorney General. Experts believe that this separation of powers made it possible for al Qaeda to plan its assault on the Twin Towers (During Clinton's Administration) and successfully attack the Towers just seven and a half months after Bush took office and before he had his Cabinet in place. What one agency knew about alQaeda was not permitted to be shared with the other agencies -- a decision that proved to be disastrous. Further and what is completely ignored by the Marxist revisionists, George Bush was told by Bill Clinton that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. THAT IS WHERE BUSH GOT THE IDEA. That "fact" was confirmed by Clinton's CIA and every national intelligence agency in the world, not to mention the fact that Saddam, himself, boldly stated their existence and his willingness to use them should his country be invaded. At any rate, as unpopular as Bush became, he did not dip into the 40% bracket until his second term. Obama managed to fall from 65% to 49% on July 24, just 6 months and 2 days into his presidency (using Rasmussen). Only Truman managed to do this more quickly and that was after he ordered the deaths (in effect) of 160,000 people via the Atom bomb (keep in mind that most experts agree that the bombings saved upwards of a million American lives as well as hundreds of thousands of Japanese lives in a battle royale for the Japan Island Complex).

It is beginning to look as if Obama will govern in the minority for all but 6 months of his last term in office. And it couldn't happen to nicer guy. He has told the voting public, "go to hell" and they are returning the favor.

(C) J Smithson
Midknight Review