Whenever an administration BS artist says “we provided X thousand documents,” they aren’t answering the question — they’re evading it. Because it doesn’t address the documents that haven’t yet been provided. Or the ones that were provided but so redacted as to be useless.
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Does this mean that if the IRS audits me and demands my financial records, I can hand then thousands of pages of printed-out code from Google Earth cache files? It’s basically what the administration is doing, but somehow, I doubt the IRS would be satisfied with that….
In a Tax Audit the burden is on the taxpayer to prove deductions, the burden is on the IRS
to prove income.
however the IRS is the judge of your case.
Slightly off topic, but this does fit with government transparency, legal disclosures, and government abuse.
At the least, I thought Rand would find it interesting.
It’s a tried and true legal practice to respond aggressively to document requests by the truckload. The actual pertinent documents are buried in the mass and those on the receiving end are overwhelmed by the workload. You can expect just this sort of thing if the Mann lawsuit ever reaches the discovery phase.
Ha!
I’ll believe it when any documents are sprung free by discovery from that plaintiff.
Leland, I learned how his lawyers should have prepped Reverend Falwell’s testimony.
“Are you asking me if people would genuinely think I would do “this things” (incest and bestiality), of course I am concerned that people would think that I would do those terrible things. I am from a humble background where hateful and prejudiced people say such things about people of my background, upbringing, and social class . . . all the time. They say these things as a crude stereotype, but in the back of their minds and behind closed doors, people believe in such stereotypes.”
Ya gotta play the victim card.
🙂