Now, tell me again about how there is anything hyperbolic about calling this nation-state we find ourselves living in Post-America.Lerner's full email reads as follows:I had a question today about OCS [Microsoft Office Communications Server]. I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails--so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails. Someone asked if OCS conversations were also searchable--I don't know, but told them I would get back to them. Do you know?The startling email exchange took place on April 9, 2013, between Lerner, IRS technology employee Maria Hooke, and IRS Director for Exempt Organizations Exam Unit Manager Nanette Downing, who was in charge of audits. The email was sent just twelve days after the IRS Inspector General circulated a draft of the targeting audit Lerner eventually leaked at a bar association speech that sparked the ensuing controversy over IRS targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups.The newly released emails also indicate Lerner was concerned that IRS instant messenger chats might be archived and saved. The IRS technology employee writes her back and states that "OCS [Microsoft Office Communications Server] messages are not set to automatically save" but noted that "parties involved in an OCS conversation can copy and save the contents of the conversation to an email or file."Lerner replied, "Perfect."
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
This Lerner woman is a real piece of work
Here's the latest development in the saga of Lois:
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Everyplace I work in insurance reminds us, in writing, to be cautious about what you say in emails. We are well-aware that they are discoverable by the lawyers. So, yes, you are waxing hyperbolic if you are connecting what Lois Lerner said in the email with the decline of the nation state you like to call Post-America.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, like soccer, emails themselves are indicative of decline. Ev er y body must de cline if that is what's eating the declinist's mind.
ReplyDeleteWhat we should be most concerned about is our legal system, our nation of lawyers, not men. Lerner I'm sure is as wicked as the rest of 'em. Like Kerry, Cruz & Gowdy, she's another one who started out as a prosecutor. I'd bet if you checked the curriculum vitaes of Congress you'd still find a large preponderance of attorneys and a majority who've done time making citizens do time. It takes a dickhead, not a village.
ReplyDeleteThe e-mail in question was written less than two weeks after the internal auditor's report making clear the IRS was targeting conservative groups. It's clear that Lerner was mainly concerned about Congress gaining knowledge of what IRS people were saying among themselves, and Congress has oversight over the IRS. It is the duty of Congress to know what the hell is going on there.
ReplyDeleteWe need an entire Capitol Hill comprised of the likes of Gowdy and Cruz. True champions of freedom.
Those in the "they all suck" party outnumber those in any political party. Who sucks? Lawyers suck!
ReplyDeletePeter Turchin is the vice president of the Evolution Institute and professor of biology and anthropology at the University of Connecticut. He has written the book War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires and developed 30 indicators for tracing the destabilization of societies—the Roman Empire, Imperial China, medieval and early-modern England and France, and so forth. His indicators now signal the demise of American society. Wage stagnation and income inequality have his warning sensors blinking bright red. Another, less familiar symptom of societal collapse, he writes for Bloomberg View, “is the overproduction of law degrees”:
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-25/will-too-many-lawyers-destroy-american-society-ask-peter-turchin
Lawyers are always interested in digesting any and all written communications to hang you on. This battle of the emails has been waged ever since email became the modus operendi of written communication. Individuals working in the field of electronic discovery commonly refer to the field as Litigation Support.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Discovery-Law-Practice/dp/1454815604
http://www.legalreform-now.org/menu1_5.htm
ReplyDeleteGovernment evolves in the ways of lawyers:
ReplyDeleteNelson Polsby (1990) seems to agree that social scientists have missed many of the important effects of the members' legal training on the legislative process. Polsby notes that, "Not only do a great many lawyers serve in Congress; the occupational culture of Congress is dominated by lawyers' ways and lawyers' jargon. committees are organized to elicit 'information' by 'holding hearings' in which 'witnesses' 'testify' and are examined 'on the record' by questions from members and staff. At least one high-ranking staff member, and usually more than one, is a lawyer and is known as 'counsel' to the committee. Hearings make the legislative record that surrounds legislation" (Polsby 1990: 114). Thus legal training appears to affect how lawyer-legislators go about performing their legislative duties.
http://polisci.wisc.edu/~kritzer/teaching/ls415/Miller1993CP.htm
A possible overabundance of lawyers and law students is an entirely different matter from the blessing that the zeal and courage of Gowdy and Cruz clearly are to our country. They are carrying out their deeply spiritual and historically visionary work through the medium of their law training. But the legacy they are leaving runs much deeper.
ReplyDeleteZeal and courage? They're just doing what the good lawyers and prosecutors that they are do. Some here are just not big fans of them either. Unless they are prosecuting what the little guy thinks he cannot. Most of us hate the other guy's lawyer. Pray for that Prince of Peace to lead his sheep home to Him, may they all safely graze, what a laugher!
ReplyDeleteIt isn't necessarily surprising that former federal prosecutors would be successful in politics, said Todd Lochner, head of the political-science department at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore. "All U.S. attorneys are political in that they have the power to make discretionary choices about what will and won't be prosecuted. That's a quintessentially political act," said Mr. Lochner, author of a study on the subsequent career paths of top prosecutors. Mr. Meehan said he had encouraged his former prosecutor friends to run for office, believing that it is good preparation to be a politician. "You are schooled in standing on your feet," he said.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323300404578203881614820230