IRS Execs Think Their Lives are at Risk in TEA Party Case

That's interesting. What are you afraid to tell us, I wonder?
"This documentation, as the court will see, makes very personal references and contains graphic, profane and disturbing language that would lead to unnecessary intrusion and embarrassment if made public," their attorneys argued in a recent court brief. "Public dissemination of their deposition testimony would put their lives in serious jeopardy."
This sounds like the rare case in which intrusion and embarrassment are wholly appropriate.
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4 comments:

  1. Gringo1:55 PM

    "This documentation, as the court will see, makes very personal references and contains graphic, profane and disturbing language that would lead to unnecessary intrusion and embarrassment if made public," their attorneys argued in a recent court brief.

    All the more reason for them to be made public. If in your conduct as a government employee, you make statements that you believe would cause you "embarrassment" if made public, then perhaps you shouldn't have made those statements in the first place.

    Why shouldn't "Gotcha" apply to both sides of the political aisle?

    "Public dissemination of their deposition testimony would put their lives in serious jeopardy."

    Had wingnuts made such statements about their lefty opponents, do those same attorneys believe that "Public dissemination of their deposition testimony would put their lives in serious jeopardy?"

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  2. Ymar Sakar2:00 PM

    This idea that your rulers are "afraid" is reminiscent of the type of paranoia Grim accused Ymar of having. Perhaps when the crazy becomes the new normal and the truth becomes fake news, the world gets pulled along a new band wagon.

    One of the issues I faced was the number of people who take the government's claims at face value before 2012.

    If the government said there was terrorism or death threats, then the mood of the public defenders would be to assume that the legitimacy exists and then argue from that premise. They wouldn't be likely to use Yuri Bezmenov's exposed KGB methods, to look at what is between the lines. That goes off into paranoid conspiracy themes sooner rather than later.

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  3. raven6:07 PM

    There are rare examples when people SHOULD be afraid.
    When they betray their mandate and wield the power of the state as a partisan weapon against their political foes may be one of those times.

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  4. Dad298:50 PM

    Po' widdle babies....not so tough when not surrounded by armed guards, eh?

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