Government bureaucrats who violate the law and cover up the evidence are a potent threat to liberty. With its monopoly on the legitimate use of force and powers of taxation, government is an interest group that just be restrained; otherwise we descend into tyranny. The Founders of the American Republic understood this well, and designed a constitutional order with checks and balances in the hope of preserving liberty. But the behavior of senior bureaucrats in recent years has raised disturbing questions about the prospects of that order enduring. While Lois Lerner and other IRS bureaucrats are in the news, the Landmark Legal Foundation is pursuing another serious case of abuse, and has just asked for legal sanctions against the EPA for repeated flaunting of its requirement to protect and produce evidence: Landmark Legal Foundation today asked Federal District Judge Royce Lamberth to sanction the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for destroying or failing to preserve emails...(Read Full Post)