If you are like me it is almost impossible to keep up with all the scandals currently coming out of the Obama Administration. There are many more qualified than I am that could speak to a path forward with each of them, so I will leave that to the legal experts.
What I can say is that we are witnessing an arrogant disregard for United States law unlike any other in history. I believe it to be an intentional display of disobedience on the part of the current President of the United States. The United States Constitution states clearly that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed:” In this constitutional requirement there is no room for his personal opinion regarding the law. Why? Well, because the Executive Branch doesn't "make the laws". The Congress does.
The list of laws the president is ignoring or refusing to enforce is too exhaustive for the purpose of this article. Suffice to say that there are multiple clear opportunities for legal impeachment. Will that happen? No, because 1) the House of Representatives doesn't have the integrity or the backbone to follow through with that. 2) The Senate is all part of the President's regime and would never impose the outcome should the House impeach. 3) The nation is too divided - largely due to ignorance and political brainwashing.
He released 5 Taliban Commanders without congressional approval. The repulsive Veterans Administration Scandals, the unresolved issue of Benghazi – Nope it won’t just go away. There are 4 Dead Americans that demands answers. Was the Administration “gun running” to the “rebels” in Syria that are now part of the Iraq invasion by ISIS? The IRS….oh my the IRS.
The Lois Lerner’s refusal to testify – should tell you a great deal about just how big the scandal is.
There is the case of the “missing” emails, which has just now been brought up. Earlier in the year, they stated they had all the emails. Now they are saying a hard drive failure on Mrs. Lerner’s computer caused the emails to be gone forever. Now six other IRS officials now claim their emails are all gone during that same time. The IRS Chief, John Koskinen, claims that “emails shouldn't be considered official documents” anyway.
How could any intelligent person accept all this as mere coincidence??? Anyway…. Emails are stored, and managed on a server. Large corporate email servers, such as Exchange Server, have technology that prevents things like this from happening. Database Availability Groups, multiple Client Access Servers, Snapshots, Disk backups, tape backups and so on. Any half way decent service level agreement will include a disaster recovery plan ensuring that data is accessible no matter what. That is unless of course the organization is riddled with complete incompetence. The IRS claims that the “old” emails are stored on the user’s local hard drive. This is a common practice of email archiving and utilizing a .pst file (Personal Storage Table). Many people archive emails when their inbox gets full in order to free up space.
This however is NOT an excuse not to have the data somewhere. Most anyone of importance would store a copy of the PST file on a storage server, a file server that simply has a “folder” where files and documents can be stored. Organizations with any decent enterprise architecture and management plan will back up those file servers also for long term storage. But there is another problem. The Federal Records Act requires that official documents be maintained, even including printing of official records and keeping the printed copies also. But according to Mr. Koskinen the email isn't considered “official”.
That’s where the IRS’s OWN rules contradict the director’s statement. The Internal Revenue Manual, 01-010-003, clearly declares that they ARE in fact official records. Don’t take my word for it – read it here: http://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-010-003.html
1.10.3.2 (08-30-2012)
Security/Privacy
1. Email messages are official documents and should reflect this perspective. Email communications can be offered as evidence in court and can be legally binding. Before sending an email, you must consider how it reflects on the Service's image and take into account privacy, records management, and security factors.
They now are also claiming that “they don’t have the money to search for the emails”. Yeah right….this is coming from the organization that spent $4.1 million on a single conference in 2010, including gifts for all in attendance, and a whopping $27,500 on a single speaker. Give me a break. Someone should go to prison. If this involved the Whitehouse, then we have to know.
What we are witnessing in America is a gross abuse of power and something must be done.
It’s time that Washington DC and the rest of the world hear your voice. It’s time to be loud. It’s time to be direct. If you have never had an interest, if you have never gotten involved, then this message is for you. The Government is still works for “we the people”….so does the President. I tremble to think what would happen if this arrogant disregard for the US Constitution be allowed to continue unchecked.
Any leader that willfully bypasses the legal balance of powers is not a president, they are a dictator.
America NEEDS you - speak up. Write, call and demand that your congressman and senators intervene and stop this nonsense. Someone has to have to guts to speak out.
“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.” – Samuel Adams 1771
What I can say is that we are witnessing an arrogant disregard for United States law unlike any other in history. I believe it to be an intentional display of disobedience on the part of the current President of the United States. The United States Constitution states clearly that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed:” In this constitutional requirement there is no room for his personal opinion regarding the law. Why? Well, because the Executive Branch doesn't "make the laws". The Congress does.
The list of laws the president is ignoring or refusing to enforce is too exhaustive for the purpose of this article. Suffice to say that there are multiple clear opportunities for legal impeachment. Will that happen? No, because 1) the House of Representatives doesn't have the integrity or the backbone to follow through with that. 2) The Senate is all part of the President's regime and would never impose the outcome should the House impeach. 3) The nation is too divided - largely due to ignorance and political brainwashing.
He released 5 Taliban Commanders without congressional approval. The repulsive Veterans Administration Scandals, the unresolved issue of Benghazi – Nope it won’t just go away. There are 4 Dead Americans that demands answers. Was the Administration “gun running” to the “rebels” in Syria that are now part of the Iraq invasion by ISIS? The IRS….oh my the IRS.
The Lois Lerner’s refusal to testify – should tell you a great deal about just how big the scandal is.
There is the case of the “missing” emails, which has just now been brought up. Earlier in the year, they stated they had all the emails. Now they are saying a hard drive failure on Mrs. Lerner’s computer caused the emails to be gone forever. Now six other IRS officials now claim their emails are all gone during that same time. The IRS Chief, John Koskinen, claims that “emails shouldn't be considered official documents” anyway.
How could any intelligent person accept all this as mere coincidence??? Anyway…. Emails are stored, and managed on a server. Large corporate email servers, such as Exchange Server, have technology that prevents things like this from happening. Database Availability Groups, multiple Client Access Servers, Snapshots, Disk backups, tape backups and so on. Any half way decent service level agreement will include a disaster recovery plan ensuring that data is accessible no matter what. That is unless of course the organization is riddled with complete incompetence. The IRS claims that the “old” emails are stored on the user’s local hard drive. This is a common practice of email archiving and utilizing a .pst file (Personal Storage Table). Many people archive emails when their inbox gets full in order to free up space.
This however is NOT an excuse not to have the data somewhere. Most anyone of importance would store a copy of the PST file on a storage server, a file server that simply has a “folder” where files and documents can be stored. Organizations with any decent enterprise architecture and management plan will back up those file servers also for long term storage. But there is another problem. The Federal Records Act requires that official documents be maintained, even including printing of official records and keeping the printed copies also. But according to Mr. Koskinen the email isn't considered “official”.
That’s where the IRS’s OWN rules contradict the director’s statement. The Internal Revenue Manual, 01-010-003, clearly declares that they ARE in fact official records. Don’t take my word for it – read it here: http://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-010-003.html
1.10.3.2 (08-30-2012)
Security/Privacy
1. Email messages are official documents and should reflect this perspective. Email communications can be offered as evidence in court and can be legally binding. Before sending an email, you must consider how it reflects on the Service's image and take into account privacy, records management, and security factors.
They now are also claiming that “they don’t have the money to search for the emails”. Yeah right….this is coming from the organization that spent $4.1 million on a single conference in 2010, including gifts for all in attendance, and a whopping $27,500 on a single speaker. Give me a break. Someone should go to prison. If this involved the Whitehouse, then we have to know.
What we are witnessing in America is a gross abuse of power and something must be done.
It’s time that Washington DC and the rest of the world hear your voice. It’s time to be loud. It’s time to be direct. If you have never had an interest, if you have never gotten involved, then this message is for you. The Government is still works for “we the people”….so does the President. I tremble to think what would happen if this arrogant disregard for the US Constitution be allowed to continue unchecked.
Any leader that willfully bypasses the legal balance of powers is not a president, they are a dictator.
America NEEDS you - speak up. Write, call and demand that your congressman and senators intervene and stop this nonsense. Someone has to have to guts to speak out.
“The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought.” – Samuel Adams 1771
