{"id":20949,"date":"2014-06-25T14:25:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=20949"},"modified":"2014-06-25T14:25:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T18:25:48","slug":"isn%e2%80%99t-not-%e2%80%9cfollowing%e2%80%9d-the-law-the-same-as-breaking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/20949\/isn%e2%80%99t-not-%e2%80%9cfollowing%e2%80%9d-the-law-the-same-as-breaking-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn\u2019t Not \u201cFollowing\u201d the Law the Same as Breaking It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to be David Ferriero right now.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the U.S. Archivist, the man in charge of keeping all of the federal government\u2019s records for posterity.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently though, no one told the IRS. Twelve days ago the agency revealed that it has conveniently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/06\/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html\" target=\"_blank\">lost two years\u2019 worth of emails from Lois Lerner<\/a>, the former IRS supervisor at the center of a scandal that targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny agency is required to notify us when they realize they have a problem,\u201d Ferriero told a House Oversight committee panel. One imagines that an alleged hard drive failure vaporizing thousands of emails qualifies as just such a problem.<\/p>\n<p>By law, the IRS is supposed to alert Ferriero within days. He wasn\u2019t notified until earlier this month &#8211; about <em>three years<\/em> after the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>When pressed, all Ferriero would say is that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2014\/06\/24\/archivist_irs_didnt_follow_law_with_lost_emails_123096.html \" target=\"_blank\">IRS did not \u201cfollow\u201d the law<\/a>. He would not say the agency broke the law.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter. The truth is obvious. Every new revelation in the IRS scandal only serves to harden the perception that so-called public servants abused their positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to be David Ferriero right now. He\u2019s the U.S. Archivist, the man in charge of keeping all of the federal government\u2019s records for posterity. Apparently though, no one told the IRS. Twelve days ago the agency revealed that it has conveniently lost two years\u2019 worth of emails from Lois Lerner, the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[351,735,4153],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corruption","tag-irs","tag-lois-lerner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20949"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20959,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions\/20959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}