IRS Hired Blind Tech To Inspect Lois Lerner Hard Drive

by JASmius



I would say that this is really bad optics for the Obama White House, but I'll just content myself with saying that this is like the Nixon White House hiring a deaf tech to listen to the Oval Office tapes:

The first IRS technician to inspect the computer hard drive of the former official at the center of a targeting scandal was legally blind, according to an affidavit filed last summer.

The admission from Stephen Manning, deputy chief information officer for strategy and modernization at the Internal Revenue Service, came in a document filed July 18th, 2014, in a lawsuit filed by True the Vote against the IRS, according to PJ Media.

The suit alleges former IRS official Lois Lerner led an effort to target the conservative group and tea party groups by refusing to grant them tax-exempt status.

"According to the [information technology] Specialist, prior to joining the Internal Revenue Service, from 2004 to 2005, formal Microsoft training was completed through Lions World Services for the Blind, a certified Microsoft training and testing center," Manning stated in the affidavit.

The IRS technician, who was hired in 2007 and has been promoted three times, began working on Lerner’s hard drive on June 13th, 2011, according to the affidavit.

Sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit, doesn't it?  Or even Benny Hill.  Not that I have any problem with the IRS hiring blind IT people, you understand.  But the optics of this, as punny as they are, really are no joke.

But then again, IRSgate has pretty much lost any and all political relevance, and has, for all intents and purposes, passed into history.  It's like if the Frost interviews with Tricky Dick had been about how he got away scot-free with Watergate and corruptly engineered the 1976 election of Gerald Ford as his successor for good measure.

Consequently, this is one more round of rubbing our noses in what Double-L did to the Right on Barack Obama's orders, how they completely got away with it, and how they will ALWAYS get away with any and every scandal they ever commit.  It's Nelson Muntzing our helplessness.



But, okay, one more: This is like a eunuch serving as Bill Clinton's "wingman"....

Hey, gallows humor is all we've had left for a long, long time now. Might as well enjoy it while we can, because even it can't last.