Day 8: IRS still can’t find Lerner’s hard drive

Agency says it doesn’t keep track of serial numbers of computer parts

Garth Kant WorldNetDaily 7/18/2014

WASHINGTON – The IRS can’t say with certainty what happened to the computer hard drive used by Lois Lerner, or exactly where it is now, but the agency has provided a federal judge sworn testimony indicating it was probably […]

Clinton Library’s Doc Dump Reveals CRA Fueled Subprime Bubble

Editorials Investors.com 4/25/2014

Subprime Scandal: Newly released memos from the Clinton presidential library reveal evidence the government had a big hand in the housing crisis. The worst actors were in the White House, not on Wall Street.

During the 1990s, former Clinton aides bragged that more aggressive enforcement of the Community Reinvestment Act pressured banks […]

IRS revokes conservative group’s tax-exempt status over anti-Clinton statements

Jessica Chasmar The Washington Times 4/21/2014

The Internal Revenue Servicehas revoked the tax-exempt status of a conservative charity for making statements critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry, according to a USA Today report.

The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, based in Manassas, Va., “has shown a pattern of deliberate and consistent intervention […]

Former Treasury Secretary confirms 2013 report that Russia played a role in the 2008 financial crisis

Glenn Beck 3/18/2014

Back in September of 2013, For The Record looked at the possibility that countries hostile to the U.S., like China and Russia, may have artificially driven up the price of oil and intentionally crashed the stocks of some financial institutions, escalating chaos prior to the 2008 economic crisis. Yesterday, a BBC report […]

What Did Obama Tell Geithner about S&P?

The former Treasury secretary’s famous call came five minutes after a meeting in the Oval Office.

James Freeman The Wall Street Journal 2/25/2014

Last month we wrote about the threatening phone call from then-Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner to the head of the parent company of Standard & Poor’s after S&P downgraded the U.S. […]

Legislator-in-chief suffers setback on illegal IRS rules

Glenn Reynolds Instapundit 2/12/2014

THE JUDICIARY STRIKES BACK: Obama, legislator-in-chief, suffers setback on illegal IRS rules.

“The IRS may not unilaterally expand its authority through such an expansive, atextual, and ahistorical reading of” the law. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit used these words in a Feb. 11 ruling that struck […]

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