Justice Department Launches Criminal Probe Of Missing IRS Emails

by JASmius

....or so they claim:

The [Injustice & Revenge Commissariat] said Wednesday that it was investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from a former senior Internal Revenue Service official, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

No, it's not.

In testimony to be delivered Thursday to a congressional committee, Deputy Attorney General James Cole said investigators are looking into emails that went missing from the computer of Lois Lerner.

Looks like Cole just perjured himself.  Not that it will matter, since his boss will never prosecute him for it.  Either that or the Capitol jail is going to be getting awfully crowded.

Cole was to appear before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which has been investigating the matter. He declined to provide additional information about the investigation, according to the prepared remarks.

Of course he did.  Because there isn't any additional information to give.  Because it's a bald-faced lie.

Cole's testimony says that the department's investigation will "provide Congress with detailed information about the facts we uncovered and the conclusions we reached in this matter," the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night. 

Oh, really?  When?  By the end of O's third term?

"Finally, someone in the administration admits that the destruction of two years of emails from Lois Lerner is fishy," Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH4), the chairman of the subcommittee that is holding Thursday's hearing, told the Journal.

Cole admitted no such thing.  Otherwise he would have given your committee "additional information".  This is just a stalling tactic.  Nothing more.

He also called once again for the [Injustice & Revenge Commissariat] to appoint a special prosecutor.

Who would report to....Eric "The Red" Holder.  Who reports to....Barack Hussein Obama.  Are you beginning to see the problem, Congressman Jordan?

Ordinarily I could see the argument for not bothering with the pursuit of Lernergate.  Her emails to the White House are gone, the media will never make a campaign of it, the cover-up succeeded, O's a "lame duck," soldiering forward anyway would just get Republicans denounced (again) as "racists," it would backfire on the GOP.  But, here again, I ask you all - and that includes you, Congressman Jordan - to consider the possibility that Barack Obama doesn't leave office when he's constitutionally required to.  Whatever slick justification for decreeing himself a third term he'd come up with, the 52% would endorse it without the conscious thought of which they're not capable.  And we'd be left spluttering in frustrated outrage about how "he can't DO that," after he'd have just done so before our very eyes.

Which is to say, perhaps it's time to play serious hardball.  Like zeroing out funding for the IRS and the Commissariat of Injustice & Revenge until a bona fide investigation of Lernergate-cum-IRSgate ensues.  Which, come to think of it, James Cole's "softeth" answer will forestall for another year or two as his non-investigation pretends to plod "forward".

I'll ask it again: Still think these people are "incompetent"?