Yes, yet another hard drive
relating to the operations of Lois Lerner has gone missing. This time it is from a very partisan
hack who worked under Lerner at the Federal Election Commission.
The Federal Election Commission recycled the
computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s —
hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according
to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission
in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive
branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time
and at federal facilities.
The twist is that Sands also worked under Lois
Lerner when the ex-IRS agent — who is currently embroiled in a scandal over the
targeting of conservative political groups — worked at the FEC’s enforcement
division.
Both Sands and Lerner were
notorious for using their positions at the FEC to target conservatives. And when I say Sands was very partisan,
I am not overstating matters:
One of Sands’ tweets, from June 4, 2012 read “I just
don’t understand how anyone but straight white men can vote Republican. What
kind of delusional rhetorical does one use?”
Sands is a black female.
“Dear every single Republican ever, When will U
learn that Barack Hussein Obama is simply smarter than U? Stand down, Signed
#Obama2012 #p2,” Sands wrote on May 1, 2012.
In a message fro Aug. 25, 2012, Sands called
Republicans her “enemy.”
In others, Sands issued fundraising pleas on behalf
of Obama. “Our #POTUS’s birthday is August 4. He’ll be 51. I’m donating $51 to
give him the best birthday present ever: a second term,” she wrote on July 18,
2012.
“The bias in these messages is striking, especially
for an attorney charged with the responsibility to enforce federal election
laws fairly and dispassionately,” read the Oversight letter to Goodman, an
Obama appointee.
But I trust she did not
conspire with Lois Lerner at the FEC to target conservatives. And I’m sure her hard drive gone
missing, and that after known illegal conduct on her part, is just an
convenient unfortunate coincidence.
Seriously, when are we
going to get real? With all these
hard drives “lost” surrounding Lois Lerner, there is obviously a cover-up going
on. There should be a strong
aggressive prosecutor going after Lois Lerner, the IRS, the FEC, and the Obama Administration NOW.
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MORE: Ed Morrissey has more
color on this:
The Hatch Act requires strict neutrality of all
federal employees while on duty, and one would expect that to be particularly
observed in the FEC. Instead, Sands tweeted partisan messages from her office
in 2012; sent out fundraising pleas for Obama’s re-election campaign,
called Republicans her “enemy,” and said they should shut up and “stand down.”
When the Inspector General came knocking, however,
the evidence had vanished. The FEC “recycled” her hard drive, which meant that
criminal charges could not be pursued. How exactly could this have happened?
Sands was under suspicion of a crime under a statute which would
be updated later that year, in a bill signed by Barack Obama himself.
Shouldn’t the FEC have taken steps to secure evidence rather than destroy it?. . .
Issa now wants Goodman to produce all of the data
surrounding the destruction of evidence at the FEC, and wants it by July 28th.
How many more hard drives will get “recycled” at the FEC between then and now?
The sky’s the limit in the Obama administration.
No kidding. Which makes the appointment of a
prosecutor all the more urgent.
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