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Johnnie Walters, RIP
Remembering when the IRS had integrity.
by James Taranto
June 27, 2014
In the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service, the IRS commissioner refused to play along with a corrupt administration, the New York Times reports. A White House aide handed him a list of 200 political "enemies" the president wanted investigated.
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The commissioner went to his boss, the Treasury secretary, "showed him the list and recommended that the I.R.S. do nothing." The secretary "told him to lock the list in his safe." Later, he retrieved the list and turned it over to congressional investigators instead of to the President.
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It's enough to restore your trust in the government--except that it happened more than 40 years ago. The corrupt order was delivered by John Dean in September 1972. The commissioner, Johnnie Walters, eventually "testified to various committees investigating alleged Nixon misdeeds," the Times reports. "He left office in April 1973." He died Tuesday; the Times article we've been quoting is his obituary.
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But the obituarist dryly notes that "Mr. Walters had not been told of Nixon's other job requirements," which surfaced in a recorded Oval Office conversation: "I want to be sure he is a ruthless son of a *****, that he will do what he's told, that every income-tax return I want to see I see, that he will go after our enemies and not go after our friends."
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
Yes, and then there is Sen Howard Baker, of, "What did the President know, and when did he know it?", fame. A prominent party leader calling out a President from his own party.
It appears the matter of ethics and patriotism died around 1995.
That was then, this is now. This is what happens when a corrupt president puts corrupt people into the bureaucracy, we get systemic levels of government corruption.
That was then, this is now. This is what happens when a corrupt president puts corrupt people into the bureaucracy, we get systemic levels of government corruption.
And when similarly corrupt people find their way into the press over the years, or decades.
Far more laws have been violated by the IRS under Obama, than under Nixon.
There was huge press hullaballoo in Nixon's time, about the IRS scandal, as there should have been.
Today, most press outlets aren't even mentioning it.
I'd say it's not only the President and IRS that are corrupt today.
Apparently most of the press has no curiosity about what was in Lerner's emails. Or about why six other people's hard drives crashed, in a miraculous coincidence nearing Biblical proportions, that just happened to take out emails from six others being examined by the same Congressional committee over the same scandal.
Nope, nothng worth any investigative journalism effort here.
My friend who is more religious than political, and neither R nor D, but very well informed commented to me "it's amazing how corrupt the Democratic party has become." The two party system has worked well for the past 100 years or so. Democrats really need to get a handle on the institutional corruption lest the whole thing implodes.
And when similarly corrupt people find their way into the press over the years, or decades.
Far more laws have been violated by the IRS under Obama, than under Nixon.
There was huge press hullaballoo in Nixon's time, about the IRS scandal, as there should have been.
Today, most press outlets aren't even mentioning it.
I'd say it's not only the President and IRS that are corrupt today.
Apparently most of the press has no curiosity about what was in Lerner's emails. Or about why six other people's hard drives crashed, in a miraculous coincidence nearing Biblical proportions, that just happened to take out emails from six others being examined by the same Congressional committee over the same scandal.
Nope, nothing worth any investigative journalism effort here.
Oh yeah, I forgot the corrupt revolving door and the incestuous relationships between the media and the politicians and bureaucrats. They are all married to each other, or have family members serving inside the legislative and executive administrative branches as aids, advisors or political appointees.
And that is just the incestuous relationships within the Obama admin. The army of loyal politically partisan journalists who also want their future chance at a cushy federal job, keeps them biased and keeps America blind and ignorant of any news of government wrong doing.
When it gets really bad, daughters of prominent politicians can earn $600k a year for a couple hours work at a TV broadcast giant, and not have any prior experience in broadcasting before.
My friend who is more religious than political, and neither R nor D, but very well informed commented to me "it's amazing how corrupt the Democratic party has become." The two party system has worked well for the past 100 years or so. Democrats really need to get a handle on the institutional corruption lest the whole thing implodes.
Why don't the honest and honorable democrats come out against the corruption? I'm waiting but all I hear are crickets.
There is no reason why patriotic democrats, republicans and independents cannot come out against the corruption and crony capitalism that is robbing our children, and harming the country. We may differ on whether the federal government should administer welfare or if the states should, but at least help take our country back from the selfish, corrupt, money grubbing, corporatist sellouts that are running government today.
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