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The IRS has "lost" all Lois Lerner emails to and from the White House, DOJ...

Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:09 pm
Posted by Alahunter
Member since Jan 2008
90738 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:09 pm
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According to the House Ways and Means Committee, the IRS has "lost" two years of emails belonging to former head of tax exempt organizations Lois Lerner. The IRS doesn't have a record of her emails from January 2009 through April 2011, conveniently encompassing some of the same time when tea party groups were being targeted for extra scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution. The IRS says the loss of emails is due to a "computer crash" and claims emails from or to Lerner from the White House, Democratic members of Congress, the Treasury Department and Department of Justice cannot be located.

“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp said in a statement. “Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise


Who isn't surprised?
Posted by 4LSU2
Member since Dec 2009
37317 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:10 pm to
Add this to the list of complete failures of this administration.
Posted by Y.A. Tittle
Member since Sep 2003
101312 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:10 pm to
Love the timing of this release.
Posted by Five0
Member since Dec 2009
11354 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:11 pm to
You think this is a failure by the administration?
Posted by Alahunter
Member since Jan 2008
90738 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:11 pm to
I think you mean criminality.
Posted by boosiebadazz
Member since Feb 2008
80185 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:11 pm to
An enterprising Republican should send a formal letter to the NSA requesting them
This post was edited on 6/13/14 at 8:31 pm
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
94877 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:12 pm to
Uh huh. "Lost".


Start making noise about contempt of court, summary judgements, etc., against the tech guys in charge of the IRS e-mail system and they'll magically find that shite pretty damn quick.
Posted by GRTiger
On a roof eating alligator pie
Member since Dec 2008
62854 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:12 pm to
Surely the NSA has "backups" of the e-mails and would be willing to help out.
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134845 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:12 pm to
quote:

The IRS says the loss of emails is due to a "computer crash" and claims emails from or to Lerner from the White House, Democratic members of Congress, the Treasury Department and Department of Justice cannot be located.


I bet they could pull up every spam email I've ever gotten over the past 5 years.
Posted by idlewatcher
County Jail
Member since Jan 2012
78922 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:12 pm to
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An enterprising Republican should send a formal letter requesting them to the NSA


NSA will have backups
Posted by mtntiger
Asheville, NC
Member since Oct 2003
26615 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:13 pm to
Bull-fricking-shite!!!!

Someone with more computer smarts than me should be able to confirm that a forensic expert can go in and determine if those files were DELETED or lost due to power outage/surge.

I am VERY suspicious of it being from a power failure, because I would bet that those servers have battery backups out the wazzoo.

This is akin to the Mafia credo, "No body. No murder."
Posted by themunch
Earth. maybe
Member since Jan 2007
64595 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:13 pm to
There is no scandal because you have no evidence of the Administrations involvement in anything to date.
Posted by C
Houston
Member since Dec 2007
27817 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:14 pm to
total bullshite.
Posted by Lsut81
Member since Jun 2005
80101 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:15 pm to
quote:

The IRS has "lost" all Lois Lerner emails to and from the White House, DOJ...


How convenient
Posted by DelU249
Austria
Member since Dec 2010
77625 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:15 pm to
Transparency
Posted by Doldil
The Ham
Member since Jan 2010
6214 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:15 pm to
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
39728 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:15 pm to
I'm sure the MSM won't spend anytime trying to question the validity of losing that much email. And that would mean the email was lost from MULTIPLE sources and not just one simple computer crash.

The fact that all of the email has disappeared should prove to the "Nothing to See Crowd" that evidently there was something to see.

Now along with the original misuse of power we have actual criminal disposal of requested documents but....

Nothing to see here.
Posted by Godfather1
What WAS St George, Louisiana
Member since Oct 2006
79617 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:16 pm to
There are ways of recovering them.
Posted by ShortyRob
Member since Oct 2008
82116 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:16 pm to
Soon, a want will arrive to ask us if we have "proof" it isn't true and refer to the lost emails as a "fact" until proven otherwise.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
94877 posts
Posted on 6/13/14 at 3:17 pm to
Next can of worms-

Since the IRS can't find the e-mails, I guess the House can subpoena the White House's entire e-mail system for 2009-2011.
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