White House Claims IRS Computer Crash Story Is Really True

The Daily Caller ^ | 17 Jun 2014 | Neil Munro

[mandaladon]

White House spokesman Josh Earnest stonewalled reporters Monday, seeking an explanation for the administration’s Friday-night claim that a computer crash wiped out all the emails between IRS chief Lois Lerner and other agencies, including the White House.

“You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?” Earnest told a reporter during a brief press gaggle while flying back to D.C. from President Barack Obama’s fundraising trip to California.

“A good faith effort has been made” to find the missing emails, he said.

Skepticism about the administration’s claim is “indicative of the kinds of conspiracy that are propagated around this story,” Earnest scoffed.

The claimed loss of emails have evoked much ridicule from GOP leaders, who argue that normal computer networks store backups of emails. “Ridiculous. #WH has to get serious,” reads a tweet from Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party.

From 2010 onward, Obama’s IRS officials used their tax power to cripple fundraising and advocacy at many Republican-leaning tea party groups before the 2012 election.

IRS official Lois Lerner played a central role in the suppression effort, but has refused to explain how the scheme began, and if the White House was involved.

Administration officials promised to send copies of Lerner’s emails to House GOP investigators. But they now say they have no copies of her messages to and from senior officials in other agencies, because her computer crashed.

[I want the USA back]

“The story is entirely reasonable because it’s true and it’s a fact,”
A perfect example of circular reasoning. No surprise that it would come from an 0bama sycophant. They know that most Americans don’t know how to reason critically, and will be fooled.

[coon2000]

I agree with you here, I think he is too stupid to understand. If there was anyone in the media with an IQ over 85 they would be all over this. Idiocracy.

[Amagi]

The next claim of truth by this White House that is actually TRUE will be the first.

[jwalsh07]

Not really. It is against the law to purge emails that conduct government business. Any email purged from electronic media must first be hard copied due to FOI ACT. Lerner either has to produce them or she will end up in a court of law for violating that law.
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[hal ogen]

There is no way that the current administration would lie to us, is there?

[muir_redwoods]

So, next year when I “file online” the IRS will be okay if they never get the payment and I can’t produce the accompanying email I sent?

[Old Yeller]

Its pretty obvious by now that this crime goes all the way up to barry, and they’d rather take the fall for destroying evidence rather than for what the emails really told.

[V K Lee]

Is it also possibly really true when it is stated the creature in the oval office is actually a monkey’s uncle? The regime has lied many times before. They continue to lie now. Truth is such a foreign concept to them.

[Old Yeller]

I don’t think he is intentionally trying to fool the citizenry. He is actually stupid enough himself to believe that a crash of Lerner’s computer alone would wipe out all evidence of her emails. If he doesn’t understand corporate email technology, he should check with someone who does before doubling down on the embarrassingly idiotic pc crash excuse.

Someone said he is a former computer forensics expert. Is this why he was hired as the new WH liar, because they new this was coming?

[Starstruck]

So, we have the Justice Department investigating the IRS and they are buying this? If they are this gullible how could they ever get to the bottom of fast & furious or the 8 billion dollars missing from the State Department or Solyndra or...............................Oh.

[varyouga]

“And yet not one legislator appears to be doing a damned thing about it.”

I’m sure the White Hut natives explained their freedom and maybe even lives will go bye bye if they poke the beast in the eye.

[Steve_Seattle]

Yes, Josh, computers do crash, which is why businesses and government agencies have backup systems to recover lost data, and an agency as important as the IRS should have a better backup system than most.

[Flick Lives]

This press parrot is even worse than Jay Carney, because this one enjoys lying to the reporters.

...and the MSM is more than willing to print whatever this WH says. I'm sure they find it amusing they can so easily lie to the public to protect their guy. They have total contempt for the public.

[Despot of the Delta]

If they didn’t reformat or change hard drives, I’m sure they will find those emails in: C:\Users\Lois\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\Outl ook.pst or archive.pst