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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
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To: smoothsailing

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61 posted on 08/25/2014 1:48:34 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8^)
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To: smoothsailing

Hardly anyone seems to be asking “What good is a backup system that is ‘too hard’ to retrieve data from?”


62 posted on 08/25/2014 1:49:20 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: hummingbird

“’Make them all wear pink underwear - except for the women.”

It’s the Obama regime - most of ‘em already do.


63 posted on 08/25/2014 1:53:20 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: smoothsailing

The Just Us gangsters have now confirmed that there is some really damning evidence in those e-mails.


64 posted on 08/25/2014 1:55:38 PM PDT by Rockpile
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To: RitaOK

It will be a bloodbath. I think that is inevitable at this point. The MaroFascists will not back down or relent, and they have been nonstop in demonizing everyone they intend to destroy.

If the history of Marxist dictatorships in the world remains consistent, we will either die fighting against our ‘cleansing’ or in submission to a regime who is going to ‘cleanse’ themselves of us anyway.

We either die resisting, or we die in chains having walked ourselves to boxcars for camps. Which do you prefer?


65 posted on 08/25/2014 2:00:07 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: smoothsailing

This is going to be fun!

Even if they really don’t exist,,surely Lerner is squirming and on the phone to her attorneys at the thought that somewhere someone has those emails.

Good!


66 posted on 08/25/2014 2:00:54 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: smoothsailing

They desperately want to hide them.
I will bet my next irs audit letter that these emails “mysteriously” disappear due to a “computer glitch.”

lerner should be in jail.


67 posted on 08/25/2014 2:05:07 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: GeronL

I like the way you think!


68 posted on 08/25/2014 2:09:22 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Iron Munro

And should be charged.


69 posted on 08/25/2014 2:10:08 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: Iron Munro

It sure sounds like the IRS is above the law.


70 posted on 08/25/2014 2:11:27 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: smoothsailing

Technically literate FReepers have said this from DAY 1!


71 posted on 08/25/2014 2:13:27 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (FReerepublic: Bring a FRiend!)
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To: apillar

Book mark..........................


72 posted on 08/25/2014 2:14:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Chewbarkah
I'm not sure how accurate this is... but -


73 posted on 08/25/2014 2:19:59 PM PDT by az_gila
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To: SES1066

photoshopped, the printer is right, but the console is a diving panel from a submarine.


74 posted on 08/25/2014 2:21:53 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: ElkGroveDan

wonderful news...now all the IRS heads who allegedly lied under oath can be charged with perjury for saying there were no backups of lerners computer and others as well...its always the coverups...


75 posted on 08/25/2014 2:25:14 PM PDT by Understand the stimulus
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To: smoothsailing

One of the federal employees who works with the backup system suddenly went berserk and attacked the computer with an axe, irreperably damaging several hard drives, one of which was Lois Lerner’s, and the other of which dealt with the murder of Stevens in Benghazi. The employee died in custody, and nobody can remember his name, but he was a TEA Party-nik.


76 posted on 08/25/2014 2:25:54 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

And so it goes


77 posted on 08/25/2014 2:26:12 PM PDT by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: SES1066

Picture brings back some memories. It is the control room on a nuclear powered vessel. The throttleman station is to the left, the reactor operator in the middle and the electrical operator to the right.


78 posted on 08/25/2014 2:45:30 PM PDT by wfu_deacons
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To: smoothsailing

Screw Congress, they are ALL involved in the IRS’ shutdown of the Tea Party ahead of the 2012 election. Judicial Watch (JW) is doing ALL the work through the courts, and getting results!


79 posted on 08/25/2014 2:45:48 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: smoothsailing

if I was the judge I jail the commissioner on contempt till they produced them then add another high level employee each week till they cough them up....


80 posted on 08/25/2014 2:47:14 PM PDT by rolling_stone (1984)
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