Christine's Tax Records

Apparently, government at all levels has decided it must save itself from conservatives.  What other explanation could there be for the antics of the IRS in delaying Tea Party tax exemption applications and leaking confidential tax information.  And now we learn not only were Christine O'Donnell tax records compromised when she declared her candidacy for the US Senate, but Delaware state officials also destroyed all computer records concerning the breach.

Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O'Donnell’s personal tax records and acknowledged that a newspaper article was used as the sole justification for snooping into the former GOP Senate candidate’s tax history.

The confidientiality of tax records was once thought to be inviolable, but somewhere along the line that changed.  Ms. O'Donnell is a Republican.   

O'Donnell said that her tax records were accessed the same day that the IRS erroneously filed an $11,744 tax lien on a home she no longer owned in Wilmington, Del. She told The News Journal that her 2005 taxes had been the subject of a three-year audit that continued when she ran for office in 2010. She said she was contacted by the IRS in 2010 and informed her tax records may have been "compromised."

There have been four reported cases where a candidate's or a donor's tax information was improperly searched. 

In one case, the investigator said the violation was willful and referred it to the Justice Department, which declined to pursue the case.

Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, said last week he was baffled that the Justice Department declined to prosecute a government employee who apparently knowingly pried into tax records of a political candidate or donor, and that there should be a way for victims to know their rights have been violated.

Issa baffled?  What would be more baffling, even shocking, is if the Obama administration actually did punish someone for harrassing Republican candidates and donors.  Harrassment, destroying the record of it, and declining to prosecutes are all just common examples of doing what the boss wants.  Just a little more evidence that the Obama administration is a criminal enterprise.