Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Judicial Watch: DOJ Admits Lois Lerner’s Emails Exist
National Review ^ | 8-25-2014 | Joel Gehrke

Posted on 08/25/2014 12:24:26 PM PDT by smoothsailing

Judicial Watch: DOJ Admits Lois Lerner’s Emails Exist

By Joel Gehrke

August 25, 2014 3:11 PM

A Justice Department official admitted that former IRS official Lois Lerner’s apparently missing emails actually exist on a backup server, but the government doesn’t plan to retrieve them.

“A Department of Justice attorney told a Judicial Watch attorney on Friday that it turns out the federal government backs up all computer records in case something terrible happens in Washington and there’s a catastrophe, so the government can continue operating,” Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton told Fox News’ Shannon Bream.

“But it would be too hard to go get lois lerner’s emails from that backup system,” Fitton continued, paraphrasing the DOJ official. “So, everything we’ve been hearing about scratched hard drives, about missing emails of Lois Lerner, other IRS officials, other officials in the Obama administration, it’s all been a pack of malarkey. They could get these records, but they don’t want to.”

Fitton said his group plans to ask a federal judge to order the IRS to hand over the emails, which conservative opponents of Lerner want to see in order to determine if there is a link between President Obama’s team and the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups.

“If this backup system is working, Lois Lerner’s emails are there,” Fitton said.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coverup; cultureofcorrution; email; irs; irsscandals; lerner; liedtocongress; loislerner; mtweather; teaparty
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-192 next last
To: smoothsailing

Just how stupid do they think we are ?
Unfortunately, stupid enough as a nation to have elected this bunch that makes a mockery of honesty and integrity


21 posted on 08/25/2014 12:39:06 PM PDT by rights with responsibilities
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Taxman
Any others come to mind?

Personally, I vote for catch and release, one at a time, in a TV show to be titled "No place like Nome in December!" Of course, you'd have to use night-optics and IR (at least for a while) but the challenge would be EPIC!

Just one thought, would bikinis be too much, for all genders I mean?

22 posted on 08/25/2014 12:39:39 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

Comment #23 Removed by Moderator

To: Taxman

I recommend Alcatraz. Fall is coming and it will be cold and dank there.


24 posted on 08/25/2014 12:40:07 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

How about building a new prison camp for them all. Say at Lat 69.367581, lon -153.559135?

No guards required, solar power with ration/supply drops once per week as weather permits.


25 posted on 08/25/2014 12:40:08 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: GeronL

To be a little more specific on your great idea, see my post below yours


26 posted on 08/25/2014 12:41:26 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: smoothsailing

I am using all these excuses when I get audited. I done scratched my hard drives. I could find all that info in 10 minutes but it is too hard.


27 posted on 08/25/2014 12:42:23 PM PDT by Organic Panic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GeronL
Are you kidding? There is plenty of room between Barrow, Alaska and Prudhoe Bay to punk down a big prison. ...

We think alike in geography my FRiend, but I like my idea (#22) better!

28 posted on 08/25/2014 12:42:26 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: blueyon
You do know National Review Online is SATIRE, right?

No, I don't know that. Neither do you.

29 posted on 08/25/2014 12:44:05 PM PDT by smoothsailing
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: smoothsailing

By now they have been either altered or completely recreated per their desired story.


30 posted on 08/25/2014 12:45:13 PM PDT by deweyfrank
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Taxman

Reopen Alcatraz with no amenities, arrest the high criminal players, lock up, blow all pier and support areas, leave. Put up anti sub nets, mines, coastal AA around the bay, and a few dozen buried bunker buster in case of any mass personnel problems. No parole.


31 posted on 08/25/2014 12:45:28 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.q)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: blueyon

lolz

it certainly seems like it often enough


32 posted on 08/25/2014 12:45:29 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: SES1066; RJS1950

I think it could work! The details can come later, after they are all locked up and just after the trials. :p


33 posted on 08/25/2014 12:47:09 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Iron Munro
Scooter Libby

Fine and jail all of them!

34 posted on 08/25/2014 12:49:56 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: smoothsailing

The chief enforcer of laws in US is Eric Holder.

Lerner will never go to jail while Holder is in charge.

Neither will any one else who could hurt democrats by spilling the beans. They are all protected by Holder/Obummer.


35 posted on 08/25/2014 12:50:04 PM PDT by entropy12 (Obummer = worst & laziest president ever, any RINO would be better than this POS.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Graewoulf

“DUH”
I just put this on fb with that exact wording.


36 posted on 08/25/2014 12:51:48 PM PDT by sopwith (LIVE FREE OR DIE)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: apillar

I imagine the email’s will finally appear...the day after the November elections....


So true, just like the video became a second story after the election....


37 posted on 08/25/2014 12:51:49 PM PDT by patriotspride
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: smoothsailing

In other words, what we have known all along - the emails are on the email servers and in the backups.

A subpoena is a subpoena. It doesn’t matter how “hard” it is to retrieve the documents, they’re obligated to retrieve them. Now if the ‘Pubbies would show some guts and start perp-marching Lerner and the rest out of the Capitol to a waiting Black Maria, we might get somewhere.

Fat chance. Oh, well.


38 posted on 08/25/2014 12:51:58 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GeronL

Lock them up there and hold the trials by remote video to and from the site. There would be plenty of lawyers there to plead their cases.


39 posted on 08/25/2014 12:54:56 PM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: sopwith

I just sent it to the TrueTheVote FB page.


40 posted on 08/25/2014 12:55:33 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Uninstall Fascist Firefox. Get Pale Moon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-80 ... 181-192 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson