Posted on 08/25/2014 8:00:30 PM PDT by kristinn
The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivan’s court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerner’s Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerner’s hard drive.
We all know by now that Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashed in June 2011 and was destroyed by IRS. The emails of up to twenty other related IRS officials were missing in remarkably similar “crashes,” leading many to speculate that Lois Lerner’s Blackberry perhaps held the key. Now, the Observer can confirm that a year after the infamous hard drive crash, the IRS destroyed Ms. Lerner’s Blackberry—and without making any effort to retain the emails from it.
Judge Sullivan has had to pry information from the IRS to learn anything about Ms. Lerner’s Blackberry. Now, with these latest revelations, I’m confident he’s not finished.
In two elusive and nebulous sworn declarations, we can glean that Ms. Lerner had two Blackberries. One was issued to her on November 12, 2009. According to a sworn declaration, this is the Blackberry that contained all the emails (both sent and received) that would have been in her “Outlook” and drafts that never were sent from her Blackberry during the relevant time.
With incredible disregard for the law and the Congressional inquiry, the IRS admits that this Blackberry “was removed or wiped clean of any sensitive or proprietary information and removed as scrap for disposal in June 2012.” This is a year after her hard drive “crash” and months after the Congressional inquiry began.
The IRS did not even attempt to retrieve that data. It cavalierly recites: “There is no record of any attempt...
(Excerpt) Read more at observer.com ...
Well that leaves Water Boarding then
Where’s the satire tag? this is real? Who’s going to jail?
20 orange jumpsuits and cut their budget 50%.
To start.
lock them all up already
The rabbit hole just keeps getting deeper and deeper...
Is she STILL gainfully employed at the IRS? I hope NOT.
If Obama has to leave in 2017 ,most of government computers , phones etc will go POOF
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For the list.
99.99%.
And still we have to pay our taxes to this foul, corrupt agency.
Doesn’t the phone provider keep records of texts?
It’s a ‘so what’ scenario. Holder will quash anything.
Their yearly budget is $24 billion and the “agonizing budget slash” was a measley $1 billion.
They all screamed that was intolerable.
BUT NOW THIS.
No one went to jail for the negligence of the first 9/11.
Don’t expect someone to go to jail over this.
LOL!!!
So they blew through at $100k worth of taxpayer equipment in their bid to cover this up?
Well, maybe there’s no longer a smoking gun leading back to the White Hut but, these people should be brought up on racketeering and RICO charges. ..
$14 biilion, not 24. Typo, sorry.
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE, we should be marching on Washington!
Everyone involved should be imprisoned.
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