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IRS inspector general finds up to 30,000 of Lois Lerner’s e-mails
Washington Post ^ | November 21, 2014 | Josh Kicks

Posted on 11/22/2014 1:15:27 PM PST by grundle

Many of Lois Lerner’s missing e-mails may no longer be missing.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration told several congressional committees on Friday that it has recovered as many as 30,000 of the ex-Internal Revenue Service official’s messages from disaster recovery tapes, according to congressional aides who participated in a briefing on the matter.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified in June that the e-mails were lost after Lerner’s hard drive crashed in 2011. He said the agency tried unsuccessfully to retrieve the records with help from agency IT and forensic experts.

Koskinen acknowledged the existence of disaster recovery tapes but said the IRS didn’t try to retrieve Lerner’s e-mails from them because they only contained six months worth of data and because the process would have been extremely difficult, partly due to the amount of information on the tapes.

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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: gettherope; impeachnow; irs; irsscandal; loislerner
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To: spokeshave

Where’s my magnifier?


21 posted on 11/22/2014 2:00:10 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: grundle
...and then loses them again. Oh darn!

Those pesky computers. Darn them. /sarc

22 posted on 11/22/2014 2:06:45 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: Brandonmark

“Stupid voters” believed him.


23 posted on 11/22/2014 2:09:06 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: freedumb2003

Ya, instead of lying and saying they were lost for ever.


24 posted on 11/22/2014 2:11:03 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: grundle

“Beginning in March 2010, the IRS more closely scrutinized certain organizations applying for tax-exempt status under sections 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code by focusing on groups with certain words in their names.”

Five years later ....


25 posted on 11/22/2014 2:25:02 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: F15Eagle

1) The intervening time has allowed us to scrub the emails, and 2) The REPUBLICAN DOMINATED SENATE AND HOUSE is going to demand some results in six weeks, so we want to look like we actually did our homework these past two years.


26 posted on 11/22/2014 2:27:03 PM PST by 50sDad (A Liberal prevents me from telling you anything here.)
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To: grundle
Safely after the election!
27 posted on 11/22/2014 2:29:06 PM PST by null and void (The better I know obama, the less I fear a president Biden.)
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To: null and void

Safely after the election and surely after someone went through them all, sanitizing them.


28 posted on 11/22/2014 2:34:31 PM PST by Shimmer1 (Republican. Because we can't all be on welfare.)
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To: grundle

Good Lord, that little vermin must have spent her few years at the IRS doing nothing but sending E-mails.


29 posted on 11/22/2014 2:38:16 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: prisoner6

“All sweet and clean now after the rain.”

Reminded me of a song by The Angels (Angel City), R.I.P. Doc Neeson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wic30jKOlrc


30 posted on 11/22/2014 3:03:09 PM PST by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thanks for letting me know his name. What Obama did to Walpin was horrible and illegal.


32 posted on 11/22/2014 4:43:03 PM PST by grundle
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To: F15Eagle

They are going to find the smoking gun and the media will go, “so?”

Then they will blame Repiblicans for being sexist and racist.

That’s the formula, why change?


33 posted on 11/22/2014 4:44:37 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
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To: grundle

Congress needs to strip Obuma of his Commander-in-chief role and send in the 101st Airborne into the IRS to arrest these traitors.

And yes, we have legal precedence to do that under the 1867-1868 Reconstruction Act.


34 posted on 11/22/2014 5:45:13 PM PST by sergeantdave
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To: grundle

Wow, funny what can happen when Republicans, who now can have all sorts of hearings and investigations, win an election and get ready to take over the Senate.....


35 posted on 11/22/2014 9:01:52 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: grundle

“Many of Lois Lerner’s missing e-mails may no longer be missing.”

They were never missing. What changed is that a federal judge demanded that IRS attorneys explain the supposed loss under penalty of perjury. So they waited until just after the election and found them.


36 posted on 11/22/2014 10:36:28 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: grundle

“Investigators recover 30,000 lost emails from IRS official ‘proving she targeted conservative tea party groups’ before 2012 Obama reelection”

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2844846/Investigators-recovered-lost-IRS-emails.html#ixzz3JuhmU24B

Key word “PROVING”


37 posted on 11/23/2014 9:26:03 AM PST by Garvin (When it comes to my freedom, there will be no debate. There will be a fight)
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To: grundle

38 posted on 11/23/2014 2:47:54 PM PST by Grampa Dave (The Democrats, who run America are too old, too rich, and too very/very white elitist losers!.)
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