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posted by mattie_p on Tuesday June 17 2014, @11:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the watching-the-watchers dept.

Per ArsTechnica, Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) has sent a formal letter to the National Security Agency asking it to hand over "all its metadata" on the e-mail accounts of a former division director at the Internal Revenue Service. "Your prompt cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated and will help establish how IRS and other personnel violated rights protected by the First Amendment," Stockman wrote on Friday. The request came hours after the IRS told a congressional committee that it had "lost" all of the former IRS Exempt Organizations division director's e-mails between January 2009 and April 2011.

The IRS blames a "computer glitch" for erasing the emails which could have implicated Agency employees in illegal activity. "The metadata will establish who Lerner contacted and when, which helps investigators determine the extent of illegal activity by the IRS," says Stockman.

Hugh Pickens also notes that this is a case where one government agency accused of misconduct is asked to "assist" another government agency accused of misconduct.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday June 18 2014, @12:59AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday June 18 2014, @12:59AM (#56708) Journal

    And we're about to get another load of BS about how the NSA doesn't actually have the metadata for those emails even though we know they spy on everything on planet Earth. It's not just that they want to have their cake and eat it too, but every other quantum state between those two poles as well. How long now before we burn DC to the ground? Just askin', because I need to arrange for somebody to feed my fish.

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