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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>….</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] blue screen = hard disk crash?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>​<span style='color:#1F497D'>></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>>…If the IRS can commit blatant spoliation of evidence with no serious consequences, what difference, at this point, what difference does it make?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> spike</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>​>…Well, you seem to assume that they are guilty…  BillW<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>BillW, the IRS director in question has been held in contempt of congress and has refused to testify based on her fifth amendment rights:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>US constitution, amendment 5:  <span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime…nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>OK then.  The IRS director was not under criminal indictment, but chose to walk away from the congressional inquiry by claiming the 5<sup>th</sup> amendment rights against self-incrimination in regard to a presumably capital or otherwise infamous crime.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Pardon me please, what capital or infamous crime?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Your turn BillW.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>