The IRS Loses Lerner's Emails

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[tedw]

The IRS—remember those jaunty folks?—announced Friday that it can't find two years of emails from Lois Lerner to the Departments of Justice or Treasury. And none to the White House or Democrats on Capitol Hill. An agency spokesman blames a computer crash.

Never underestimate government incompetence, but how convenient. The former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations was at the center of the IRS targeting of conservative groups and still won't testify before Congress. Now we'll never know whose orders she was following, or what directions she was giving. If the Reagan White House had ever offered up this excuse, John Dingell would have held the entire government in contempt.

[Kackikat]

I guess they will have to open up another closed military base if all the guilty IRS employees are rounded up.

[thesharkboy]

Even I, a lowly bit-wrangler, know that this is complete BS. They lie, and this is what they come up with?

[cripplecreek]

I think there’s something far more damning in the emails that what we’ve seen so far.

[reefdiver]

A special Prosecuter could and would find them or people would sit in the can

[stanne]

The WSJ prints this on a Saturday

A Saturday in the summer

It’s actually sat and sun together.

No one reads this

[Cheerio]

This is so much BS it makes one's head almost explode!!!

First of all most email servers have multiple backups perhaps starting with a RAID 10 configuration, and secondly there is more than likely a snapshot taken weekly or on some frequency and stored elsewhere as an archive.

THIRDLY, Lois Learner was sending and receiving emails from Congress and other agencies, probably some private PACS. Is the Congress so stupid as to not go after the copy of Lois Learner's email that is residing on those NON-IRS servers? Just because the IRS server was wiped out (HIGHLY DOUBTFUL) the receipient of her email has a copy. GOOD GRIEF, even laymen can understand this.

[what's up]

The IRS scandal is the same stuff that Nixon was going to be impeached for.

The left wing media can’t risk the public understanding the parallel so they refuse to cover it.

[Seaplaner]

Somewhere there is a record of the emails, unless everyone involved destroyed their hard drives.

I would love to hear from some forensic IT experts on this.

[Hulka]

Indeed.

Sender has record and the receiver as well.

[Kenny]

Hold someone accountable! Until we stop letting these creeps hide behind their giant bureaucracy they will keep breaking the law until we have no law.

[FourPeas]

Obama admin has gotten away with so much other illegal activities, they have every reason to believe this will work as well. Low info voters will easily believe emails can be “lost.”

[Signalman]

There is a criminal syndicate running the country. It is known as “The Obama Administration”.

[Hulka]

My thoughts exactly. Why else go to such an extreme unless you are called out by name as engaging in criminal activity.

[Uncle Chip]

They have them — they testified before the committee that they have them.

If they don’t have them now then several high level people need to go to jail.

[Dalberg-Acton]

They didn’t lose the e-mails, they’re lying. I doubt Issa’s committee will do anything about it.

[M Kehoe]

This is a good thread to remind everyone that I'm the queen of England.

5.56mm

[MeshugeMikey]

important news like this...fades into obscurity when Nike Introduces...New Air Obamas

Email is OL SKOOL

[ErnBatavia]

[smoothsailing]

My dog ate it.

[Know et al]

Nixon only lost 18 seconds of tape.