{"id":951,"date":"2014-06-13T14:41:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T22:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=951"},"modified":"2014-06-17T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T16:28:23","slug":"old-busted-nixon-tapes-missing-18-minutes-impeachment-new-hotness-irs-loses-2-years-lerner-white-house-emails-whoopsie-accidents-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/old-busted-nixon-tapes-missing-18-minutes-impeachment-new-hotness-irs-loses-2-years-lerner-white-house-emails-whoopsie-accidents-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and Busted: Nixon Tapes Missing 18 Minutes!  Impeachment!  New Hotness: IRS Loses 2 Years of Lerner-White House Emails!  Whoopsie!  Accidents Happen!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/old-busted-nixon-tapes-missing-18-minutes-impeachment-new-hotness-irs-loses-2-years-lerner-white-house-emails-whoopsie-accidents-happen\/\" data-text=\"Old and Busted: Nixon Tapes Missing 18 Minutes!%2520Impeachment!%2520New Hotness: IRS Loses 2 Years of Lerner-White House Emails!%2520Whoopsie!%2520Accidents Happen!\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Back in the 70&#8217;s when Richard Nixon (R) nearly caused the universe to end by awkwardly covering up some political dirty tricks in the Watergate scandal, there was an episode where it was found that some taped recordings of Oval Office conversations between Nixon and some of the Watergate players contained an 18 minute blank spot. \u00a0Anyone familiar with 1970s technology of tape recording could conceive of a legitimate error possibly causing the blank, but foul play was immediately assumed. \u00a0 This conclusion was most likely correct, and Congress and the public cut Nixon no slack at all. \u00a0When threatened with impeachment, Nixon resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Today we learn that as the Congressional inquiry into possible collusion between the White House and the IRS to intimidate, harrass and persecute (and prosecute, for that matter) Republican and Conservative opposition groups, the <a href=\"http:\/\/waysandmeans.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=384506\" target=\"_blank\">IRS claims<\/a> to have lost <em>2 years worth<\/em> of e-mails between Lois Lerner and any groups outside of the IRS, such as the White House and Democrat Members of Congress. \u00a0But, hey, no big deal. \u00a0Accidents happen! \u00a0I mean, what big companies and organizations ever take precautions against things like this? \u00a0Certainly not the IRS! \u00a0Besides &#8211; we can trust Barack Obama (D). \u00a0See the (D)? \u00a0OK then.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing to see here&#8230;Move along<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_952\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/old-busted-nixon-tapes-missing-18-minutes-impeachment-new-hotness-irs-loses-2-years-lerner-white-house-emails-whoopsie-accidents-happen\/anteater-move-along\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-952\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-952\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/anteater-move-along-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"You don't argue with an Aardvark\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/anteater-move-along-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/anteater-move-along-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/anteater-move-along.jpg 608w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You don&#8217;t argue with an Aardvark<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Back in the 70&#8217;s when Richard Nixon (R) nearly caused the universe to end by awkwardly covering up some political dirty tricks in the Watergate scandal, there was an episode where it was found that some taped recordings of Oval Office conversations between Nixon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order","category-life","category-oldandbusted-newhotness","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}