Posted on 04/29/2015 7:36:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s an April miracle, Charlie Brown! While the old and largely forgotten IRS scandals have been replaced by whole news sets of scandals, I guess there was still some work going on in the background. The Inspector General for the Treasury announced this week that more than six thousand of Lois Lerner’s emails – lost when “her computer crashed” a few years ago – have been recovered from backup tapes and will be turned over.
The Treasury’s Inspector General for Tax Administration notified the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday that they have recovered thousands of Lois Lerner emails that were not previously produced to Congress, committee members told Fox News.
The inspector general recovered approximately 6,400 Lerner emails and will carefully examine them as part of the committee’s bipartisan IRS investigation…
The IRS, in a statement to the website, said that it was pleased to hear the Treasury’s inspector general found the emails saying it was an “encouraging development that will help resolve remaining questions and dispel uncertainty surrounding the emails.”
The IRS also said it took the inspector general around 10 months to come up with the emails sent or received during the period affected by Lerner’s computer crash.
The emails were mostly from 2013, with a smaller number from 2011 and 2012, so they are at least from the time period when the targeting of conservative groups was taking place. But will any of them be relevant to the case? And if there were any smoking gun style messages contained in the lost files, will they see the light of day? The work is being overseen by the Inspector General, J. Russell George, appointed to the position by George W. Bush in 2004 and having an impressive resume.
Following his nomination by President George W. Bush, the United States Senate confirmed J. Russell George in November 2004, as the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Prior to assuming this role, Mr. George served as the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, having been nominated to that position by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate in 2002.
In addition to his duties as the Inspector General for Tax Administration, Mr. George serves as a member of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, a non-partisan, non-political agency created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide unprecedented transparency and to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and mismanagement of Recovery funds. There, he serves as chairman of the Recovery.gov committee, which oversees the dissemination of accurate and timely data about Recovery funds.
While there is rarely any sense in pining for “the good old days” when it comes to the government, we’re once again seeing an oversight process where the public’s confidence is, to be charitable, marginal at best. Paper records are mostly a thing of the past, replaced by collections of digital ones and zeros which can be invisibly wiped away. Of course, hard copy documents could be burned or shredded, but at least you knew they existed at one point. The entire episode with Hillary Clinton’s server has probably done more to cast doubt on such record keeping than anything else.
Still, I may be proven to be too much of a pessimist in this case. Perhaps the Inspector General will come up with something useful. We won’t know right away since it will obviously take some time to comb through that many messages. Cross your fingers.
Well, well, well.....they were all gone huh?
Oh to be a bug on a wall to over hear the following conversations about this mess.....
“The inspector general recovered approximately 6,400 Lerner emails and will carefully examine them as part of the committee’s bipartisan IRS investigation…”
The IG is a part of the Treasury. The IRS is a part of the treasury. So they are investigating themselves. These emails need to be turned over to Congress.
OK - but what will it matter? The political and ideologically-inspired criminality of top government bureaucrats is beyond normal justice.
She has to be getting scared or maybe not she has the full protection of the Obama Justice Department
““The inspector general recovered approximately 6,400 Lerner email”
That’s a lie, that disgusting reptilian IRS Commissioner said under oath the tapes did’t exist /s
My guess is we’ll find out what’s on them only on or after January 20, 2017 - inauguration day for Obama’s successor.
they’ve probably been cleaning out the damning ones all this time.
Don’t try her too soon O will just pardon her
The last thing Lerner wants to see is a conservative win the 2016 presidential election and appoint a real prosecutor as Attorney General.
You have to bet that she is praying for one of two things:
Who cares??? They (DOJ)already announced NO prosecution of Lerrner months ago.
She will be pardoned, count on it.
Delete broken.
She must be charged and convicted first. And a Pardon cannot be met until
the person fully admits to their crimes.
Oh come on this is so last year ,LOL will be the answer
My guess is we’ll find out what’s on them only on or after January 20, 2017
NEVER GONNA HAPPEN, As we speak Trey Gowdy is destroying, burying, or classifying ALL of Hillary’s emails that have anything to do with Bribery, Corruption, or Treason.... because they will all show COMPLICITY by the Leadership of BOTH PARTIES.
Things could get troublesome for Ms Lerner. In fact she may have to retire and collect her fat pension while she becomes a democrat lobbyist and rakes in millions before writing her book.
Exactly true. McCain and McConnell for starters are complicit, and Boehner, we'll see.
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