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Investigators Recover 32,000 Emails To and From Lois Lerner
CNS News ^ | 2/26/15 | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press

Posted on 02/26/2015 7:31:37 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators said Thursday they have recovered 32,000 emails related to a former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party scandal.

But they don't know how many of them are new.

The emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last June, the IRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's email when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011.

At the time, IRS officials said the emails could not be recovered. But at a congressional hearing Thursday evening, IRS Deputy Inspector General Timothy Camus said investigators recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up the agency's email system.

"We recovered quite a number of emails but until we compare those to what's already been produced we don't know if they're new emails," Camus told the House Oversight Committee.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: emails; irs; irsscandal; irsscandals; lerner; lerneremails; lois
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To: PROCON
How interesting if some lead to the white house.

This is all 'wag the dog'.

There is nothing to be found in the emails under her name.

She used an alias account. Most of the top brass of our government do it too. In every circle.

They aren't stupid. As much as we think they are.

21 posted on 02/26/2015 7:58:29 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
Any competent programmer could whittle that down to 200 emails for people for to read in no time.

I'm a dumbass when it comes to all things programing, hope you're right FRiend.

22 posted on 02/26/2015 7:58:39 PM PST by PROCON (Always Give 100% --- Unles you're donating blood.)
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To: Nachum

What !?

I thought her emails were lost due to a hard drive crash.

Have we been grubered?


23 posted on 02/26/2015 8:00:59 PM PST by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - a Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: The Antiyuppie
Any competent programmer could whittle that down to 200 emails for people for to read in no time.

Got that right. Calculate hash values for the first 160 characters of email messages and compare to hashes for already-known messages to filter those out. Then pump the remaining emails into a modern Document Management System to make the new ones fully searchable and viewable. Probably about 12 hours of programmer work, with maybe another 8 hours of admin time to set up the needed servers.

24 posted on 02/26/2015 8:07:28 PM PST by The Duke
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To: Nachum

I hope the drip, drip, drip of this is causing that bitch untold anxiety....sort of like an IRS audit.


25 posted on 02/26/2015 8:07:58 PM PST by clintonh8r (ISIS IS ISlam)
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To: The Duke

Post them all online and let us do it.


26 posted on 02/26/2015 8:13:37 PM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Nachum
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., questioned the significance of the recovered emails in an exchange with Camus... "So may I ask, why are we here?"

One of an infinite reasons to hate Colin Ferguson.

27 posted on 02/26/2015 8:16:20 PM PST by dead (It's time to turn off the Peter, Paul and Mary and turn on the George M. Cohan.)
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To: Nachum

One lady I wish who would have an exercise equipment accident.


28 posted on 02/26/2015 8:18:07 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: FoxInSocks
Post them all online and let us do it.

We are mere scarecrows, not worthy to look at the man behind the curtain.

29 posted on 02/26/2015 8:19:03 PM PST by dead (It's time to turn off the Peter, Paul and Mary and turn on the George M. Cohan.)
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To: clintonh8r

30 posted on 02/26/2015 8:24:44 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: Nachum

This will drag on for another two years.

By then it will be buried so far under another huge mountain of Obama scandals, lies and criminal activity it will disappear forever.


31 posted on 02/26/2015 8:33:34 PM PST by Iron Munro (Mark Steyn: "fundamentally transformed" is a euphemism for "wrecked beyond repair.")
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

That woman has evil written all over her.


32 posted on 02/26/2015 8:51:47 PM PST by freedom6178
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To: Nachum
"said investigators recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up the agency's email system."

Been plenty of time to go back and fix a word here or there....
33 posted on 02/26/2015 8:59:53 PM PST by indthkr
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To: Nachum

When is she going to jail?


34 posted on 02/26/2015 9:25:16 PM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

There’s something else she once needed but it’s too late now.


35 posted on 02/26/2015 9:27:27 PM PST by haroldeveryman
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To: Nachum

Up load them to the Web and let us give a hand going through them. Bet the site gets shut down quick by the FCC!


36 posted on 02/26/2015 9:49:28 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: Iron Munro

Boehner appointed ‘fireball’ Trey Gowdy back in May of 2014 to investigate. That was ten months ago. Another alphabet agency, the FBI, is supposed to be investigating as well.
Gowdy has gotten around to following up on some subpoenas-—and is just recently recommending a special prosecutor. Anyone who thought he was a ‘special prosecutor’ well, you were apparently mistaken.

As you say, this will drag on until Obama leaves office but until then the GOP will throw out scraps of red meat to “extremists” (like us), Koskinen and Lerner will segue into fat pensions and gold plated retirement benefits (did you see the thread on the generous inventive/reward payments she got for the three years up-to getting caught?), and basically not a damned thing will be done to actually punish either one of them for political corruption, perjury, obstruction of justice, etc., other than finding them in contempt of Congress.
Heavens to Murgatroyd. Contempt. Good only for that term and with no actual repercussions, as we saw with Eric Holder. It’s just theater, BS from the GOP establishment.

And plenty more scandals to go in the next year or so! As Obama ‘goes for broke’ understanding that—like “undocumented immigrants—he and his helpers can pretty much get away with anything they have done or will do because, what do you get when you reward, or fail to punish, bad behavior?
That’s right: you get a guy doing things that he earlier admitted he had no business trying to do.
But hey, if no one objects; I mean, objects and means it.


37 posted on 02/26/2015 10:00:21 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: plain talk

“lets say just for grins the emails exposed that Obama directed Lerner to go after conservatives. So what? what would happen then? “

Nothing. Because doing something would require action by the spineless, worthless, craven GOP.


38 posted on 02/26/2015 10:06:48 PM PST by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Nachum

Pure crab to be certain. Congress will hold more hearings, red meat will be thrown to conservatives, nothing will be done. We are a lawless society.


39 posted on 02/26/2015 10:21:11 PM PST by vpintheak (Call them what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: plain talk
for someone much worse than Obama to do far greater damage.

I would like to think: Not if the Government is small enough.

40 posted on 02/26/2015 10:28:23 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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