The closest bank to the Midas Mulligan principle now is probably BB&T. Straightlinelogic's input on this question would be most welcome. He wrote a whole book on sound banking principles.

You're saying Ayn Rand did not really have an accurate model of an ideal banker, and no banker has run his bank according to the Midas Mulligan principle since the Federal Reserve.

Midas is fictional, at least since 1913.

Let's just say that their E-Mail server computer system did crash somehow, and the second set of RAID hard drives were also affected somehow, and the hardware redundancy did not work somehow, and they had no off-site storage plan or if they did that somehow it did not work or was affected also, and all the archived backups they made were corrupted somehow, and they lost those emails somehow, and they had not printed out any physical copies or those were lost somehow as well, and they typically do follow standard and legal processes of handling persistent and confidential E-Mails, and...

Should we forgive and forget? Would they?

Aside from whether the suggested penalty for Lois Lerner is appropriate: I gather, from the above, that you don't see a Midas Mulligan at work here. As I recall, he was a banker. But at least he tried to run his bank according to some kind of sound-money principles. And in the Gulch, he ran a gold-standard, full-reserve bank.

I have suspected foul play, or at least gross fabrication, from the start. In my experience, SMTP, POP, and now IMAP servers are fault-tolerant. This sounds as if someone cobbled together a system from forty-year-old parts. And I find it literally incredible. And finally someone is saying what someone had to say.

Insofar as believability is concerned, when I read the wonderful red-penciled defense of Walmart yesterday I was struck by the fact that the underlying Times article was written by an alien. Not a nice "Live long and prosper" type alien, but someone whose perceptions and premises were completely foreign to me.

So, I think where 'straining at gnats and swallowing camels' is concerned, many people will accept the IRS excuses as truth, since it is from the book of politically correct doctrine.

Jan

That is a nice collection of the case. Obama has far out done Nixon. He should at least be impeached.

And that outrage could, conceivably, lead to a total abandonment of the irs in favor of honest tax systems (sales & usage come to mind)...

At first I though that anyone who believes those e-mails were (are) just lost is either a fool or living in a parallel universe.But then, knowing what we know about Obama, it's pretty obvious that those who blindly follow him live in a fantasy land, or are just plain ignorant. Of course, this doesn't include members of the regime who are either dedicated to the ideas of Bill Ayers or are looking for personal power, or prestige.

Believing the IRS cockamamie story would require the biggest blankout in history ... or at least since "The video caused the uprising in Benghazi".

I am an It professional and I will say that this article well covers what me and my work mates have been saying all along about this issue.

Hello D--with the news this past few days, how can anyone keep a republican foot to a fire when the repubs have crossed a line for Thad Cochran in Mississippi... The robo-calls to dems to vote against Chris McDaniels tell me there is no honor left in the Grand Old Party.and no foot to stand on, let alone toast. I do make those calls, again and again on each new mess that bubbles to the surface of the beltway slime.

I hate homework. just let me take the test

I have been a professor for 16 years and have had just about every excuse in the book, including numerous computer crashes and "the dog ate my homework". However, the funniest was "The cat gnawed on my homework." I have seen my cat gnawing on my daughters' homework on multiple occasions. He doesn't like it when they do homework instead of giving him his proper attention. My kids don't understand their proper role (in the cat's mind) as the cat's staff!

Roast the bastards! This is big enough to get the entire nation OUTRAGED!

The White House stooges at the IRS are so desperate to cover up those self-incriminating emails that they knowingly insult our intelligence for so too conveniently losing it all. And why not? They know that the Liar-In-Chief's' top felon, Eric Holder, will not do a thing about it.
In fact, the IRS could get away with collectively mooning the world on national TV and say, "Hey, those racist Republicans are just whining for political reasons." And all the media save for FOX will be trying to ignore that historic mooning.

Just Subpeona the information from NSA. They collect everything.

Didn't you hear? That computer crashed.

Or believing the Clintons were "dead broke"
upon leaving the White House.

This is obviously an attempt at a cover-up. To think otherwise is an exercise in futility. What to do, what to do?
Keep the Republicans' feet to the fire and make the calls!

Oh my gosh, stop the teasing! Dreams are a motivator! : )
If only.......

No worse than pretending that an airline plane crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11.

Excellent rational discussion why this excuse is just more lies packaged in an acceptable way to many voters (who are mystified by computers).

Solution: close the IRS.
Oh, forgot, that is required as security by the banksters who created the federal reserve system to squeeze every drop of blood from the former free people of the States united.
Solution: close the federal reserve and NEVER give any central agency the power to create credit from nothing. Time to treat the banks like they have treated the people for 4 generations.

Oh, and impale Lerner on a pole on the white house lawn in view from the oval office.

If I don't get a t-shirt with the church lady saying
"How conveenient, Lois" very soon, I shall surely just die. Not the Rachel Zoe way, I mean really.