Runs in the family?
Posted on 07/21/2014 12:49:44 PM PDT by PoloSec
Could the IRS have those missing Lois Lerner emails after all?
New testimony from a key Internal Revenue Service official indicates the IRS may not have lost two years of emails sent by former top IRS official Lois Lerner after all.
That is what the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee suggested Monday morning in a newly released transcript of a recent closed-door interview with IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane.
Kane is responsible for producing documents requested by Congress that are related to a a probe into the IRS past practice of targeting conservative groups.
Kane met with House investigators after Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued a subpoena.
Kane told Oversight staffers last week that the backup tapes that held two years of lost Lerner emails may actually still exist.
If true, it would contradict claims made by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who told Congress last month Lerner's emails to outside agencies sent between 2009 and 2011 were lost when Lerner's hard drive crashed and was destroyed and back up tapes were overwritten after six months.
At the time the emails were lost, Lerner was head of the IRS tax exempt division and House investigators believe she holds the key to establishing whether higher ranking administration officials were involved in the targeting.
Here is is the key part of the transcript between Kane and House Oversight investigators:
Kane: There is an issue as to whether or not there is a — that all of the backup recovery tapes were destroyed on the 6-month retention schedule.
Investigator: So some of those backup tapes may still exist?
Kane: I don't know whether they are or they aren't, but it's an issue that's being looked at.
The transcript also revealed that, according to Kane, additional IRS officials related to the targeting of conservative groups suffered computer crashes that destroyed emails that investigators are seeking.
Among those who lost data are Justin Low, a technical advisor and tax law specialist for the agency’s tax exempt division, which oversees decisions to grant tax exempt status.
Other employees who lost data were David Fish, an advisor to Lerner who also develops guidance for tax exempt groups and served as acting director of Rulings and Agreements and Andy Megosh, a manager in the IRS exempt organizations division.
Also, data was lost by an IRS agent in Cincinnati, where the IRS targeting originated. Revenue agent Kimberly Kitchens also donated to President Obama's re-election campaign.
Koskinen had angered lawmakers when it was revealed he waited months to tell them the emails were lost.
“Commissioner Koskinen has repeatedly blamed the reporting delay on an effort to be sure what he said was correct, we now now that wasn’t the case,” Issa said.
Prospose a new law:
No pension or employment for any employee with any active role in hiding or destroying these records.
And that’s after the incarceration.
Somewhere a computer geek is finding these emails and will probably blackmail these losers.
If the tapes exist, Congress had better find them quick before the dog eats them.
A lesson on obfuscating while not committing perjury.
Can’t we just bribe Ed Snowden to send them?
immediate 100% defunding of the IRS and IRS pensions would produce the missing email messages relatively quickly.
New ones have been written to replace the destroyed ones.
Now they can be released and guess what? Nothing there, just like they said.
And the irony of the day is obutthead making a statement in the latest Malaysia air crash that the Russians obstructing investigators access to the site makes it look like they might be trying to hide something.
And with the NSA copies of the originals, the editing can be refined don’tchaknow. The NSA and IRS are criminal orgs of fedzilla, so don’t expect truth from them.
Yup, that's all of 'em - nothing to see here! End of case!
WHOA! Talk about an incentive that would work... That's the one. Hello IRS and Lois Lerner...
“Prospose a new law:
No pension or employment for any employee with any active role in hiding or destroying these records”
Most importantly RETROACTIVE
They live — surprise surprise
Not for long.
It might be just another delay tactic.
Please pass the popcorn as the summer progresses and we get closer to the November elections!
Runs in the family?
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