Posted on 06/17/2014 8:18:26 AM PDT by mandaladon
White House spokesman Josh Earnest stonewalled reporters Monday, seeking an explanation for the administration’s Friday-night claim that a computer crash wiped out all the emails between IRS chief Lois Lerner and other agencies, including the White House.
“You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?” Earnest told a reporter during a brief press gaggle while flying back to D.C. from President Barack Obama’s fundraising trip to California.
“A good faith effort has been made” to find the missing emails, he said.
Skepticism about the administration’s claim is “indicative of the kinds of conspiracy that are propagated around this story,” Earnest scoffed.
The claimed loss of emails have evoked much ridicule from GOP leaders, who argue that normal computer networks store backups of emails. “Ridiculous. #WH has to get serious,” reads a tweet from Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party.
From 2010 onward, Obama’s IRS officials used their tax power to cripple fundraising and advocacy at many Republican-leaning tea party groups before the 2012 election.
IRS official Lois Lerner played a central role in the suppression effort, but has refused to explain how the scheme began, and if the White House was involved.
Administration officials promised to send copies of Lerner’s emails to House GOP investigators. But they now say they have no copies of her messages to and from senior officials in other agencies, because her computer crashed.
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Only someone stupid enough to vote for Obama would believe this crap.
Had ENOUGH Yet ?
IOW, he looked in the desk drawer................
Provide full documentation and forensics to confirm the emails were lost.
Otherwise everyone involved should be charged.
This sets a disgusting precedent and people cannot stand for it!
The White House is really telling you that they DESTROYED THE EMAILS on ALL Computers/Servers
The obama Administration:
Not even a smidgeon of corruption.
We should have stopped him at t he dinner roll.
If it is a true story then the IRS deliberately set up a system that deletes evidence. Defund it, now.
This press parrot is even worse than Jay Carney, because this one enjoys lying to the reporters.
Emails are on the senders and receivers computer. Lets not be stupid. Then there are two more parties...the service providers.
so they should subpoena all the RECIPIENTS of the email, suspected and known both.
And if anyone seriously thinks that those emails are not on a backup server somewhere, they are deluded. What, the NSA gives witches a bye?
Wouldn’t the emails be on the sending end server as well as the receiving end server?
Yeah Michael Hasting’s steering wheel turned and the vehicle sped up because he was high at the time. The fact that he was working on a story on CIA director, John Brennan, had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Actually that's what they want us to do - to ask for something else. They will then delay forever on that.
Just put people in jail and stop their paychecks. That's what they would do.
Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner.
Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner.
Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner.
Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner.
Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner.
Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner. Jail Lerner.
Giver her a summer vacation in jail to think it over.
If she needs more time give her Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Years.
And when the new Congress begins, jail her. Jail her until she complies.
Earnest said with earnest.
So, sensitive government computers do not have backup drives?
What’s the next whopper they’ll come up with?
Sharyl Atkisson had a great blog about what the Republicans should ask for, in detail, from the regime about this “crash.” It completely destroys this “computer dog ate my homework” sham.
She is one very bright lady and I wish all journalists had half of her dedication to the pursuit of truth.
If the White House is making this claim, then I know beyond all doubt that it is a lie.
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