Judicial Watch: DOJ Admits Lois Lerner’s Emails Exist

National Review ^ | 8-25-2014 | Joel Gehrke

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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.

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SAY IT AIN'T SO, MISS LOIS, SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!

[Iron Munro]

So that means all those IRS people who swore to congress while under oath that the eMails do not exist were commiting perjury.

[Diogenesis]

Lerner and Obama, and by their doing NOTHING
Issa and Cummings, funded Hamas.

How many children have been murdered from their funding
Hamas and other slavers and terrorists?

[Lurker]

Pretty much.

[tumblindice]

Congress? Contempt citation. Big deal! Who cares?

[BitWielder1]

What's the purpose of backups if you can't get to them when you need them?
At worst, it may take a day for IT services to restore it but ... too hard to do? Not buying it.

[Twotone]

The judge dealing with this issue is not likely to put up with such nonsense.

[Triple]

People need to go to jail - yesterday!

[smoothsailing]

All of them, all the way up the line.

[Taxman]

The problem with that is that we do not have a penal colony large enough to accommodate all of them!

We could re-open Alcatraz, perhaps.

And, the prison where the Shawshank Redemption may still be available.

Any others come to mind?

[apillar]

I imagine the email’s will finally appear...the day after the November elections....

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

“If this backup system is working, Lois Lerner’s emails are there,”

They’ll say the backup system is NOT working!

[EQAndyBuzz]

“What’s the purpose of backups if you can’t get to them when you need them?
At worst, it may take a day for IT services to restore it but ... too hard to do? Not buying it.”

Probably saved to tape and over the years they got rid of the tape drives.

[dadfly]

bookmark

[JPG]

give me a month or two and I'll have all the emails erased, uh, I mean found

[GeronL]

The problem with that is that we do not have a penal colony large enough to accommodate all of them!

Are you kidding? There is plenty of room between Barrow, Alaska and Prudhoe Bay to punk down a big prison. Surround it with ice berms and hunt down escapees with armed drones and AH-1Z Vipers.

[Jay Thomas]

Yeah, the dark side of the moon.

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[a fool in paradise]

TRANSPARENCY #SMIDGEN

[Graewoulf]

DUH!