Posted on 07/22/2014 5:32:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Does the IRS actually have their backups for e-mail from the period when Lois Lerner and her group targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny on tax-exempt applications? The agency claimed a month ago that it overwrote the tapes every six months, in one of the most notorious (and unsuccessful) Friday afternoon document dumps ever. New testimony from one of the IRS’ top lawyers released last night by the House Oversight Committee casts doubt on that story (via Instapundit):
The IRS might not have lost the backups of former agency administrator Lois Lerner’s emails after all, according to top IRS official.
In testimony released Monday, Thomas Kane, the IRS’s deputy associate chief counsel, told House Oversight investigators last week that the agency was examining whether all back-up tapes which held the emails have been recycled.
The IRS told lawmakers in June that the tapes had been recycled, one of the reasons that an untold number of Lerner’s emails were missing. Since then, the IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, has repeatedly stood by those statements in congressional testimony.
But Kane, the top IRS official in charge of producing documents for Congress, said on Thursday that: “I don’t know if there is a backup tape with information on it or there isn’t. I know that there’s an issue out there about it.” …
In the transcript released by Issa, Kane also insists that the IRS believed that the tapes had been recycled when it told Congress more than a month ago that it couldn’t recover all of Lerner’s emails. He doesn’t say why that might not be the case anymore.
At some point, this begins to look like trolling. We have them! We don’t have them! We may have them, but … er … we don’t know!
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Start prosecuting the people that were responsible for ensuring that these documents were properly archived as per federal law. You’ll be amazed what you would learn.
You are mistaken, Citizen. Since the government defines what is and isn't criminal, nothing is criminal unless the government says it is.
They were reel to reel.
A friend of mine placed a joke ad in the WA PO, at the time:
“Slightly used 6” reel-to-reel, Model xyz tape recorder for sale. Occasionally skips recording. Call 555-555-5555, ask for Dick”
Thank you for that one, it was a nice way to lighten up my day with the tough times had with the new baby in the house.
Forgot to mention that he actually put the true WH phone # in the ad.
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