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The IRS Loses Lerner's Emails
Wall Streeit Journal ^ | Wall Street Journal Editorial Staff

Posted on 06/14/2014 8:44:50 AM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; bs; fascism; fascist; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; irsgagte; lerner; loislerner
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To: Belteshazzar

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


21 posted on 06/14/2014 8:54:19 AM PDT by Kackikat
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To: nhwingut

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


22 posted on 06/14/2014 8:55:23 AM PDT by thesharkboy (posting without reading the article since 1998)
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To: Josa

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


23 posted on 06/14/2014 8:55:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: cripplecreek

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


24 posted on 06/14/2014 8:56:49 AM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: tedw

The WSJ prints this on a Saturday

A Saturday in the summer

It’s actually sat and sun together.

No one reads this


25 posted on 06/14/2014 8:57:04 AM PDT by stanne
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To: tedw
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.
26 posted on 06/14/2014 8:57:07 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: tedw

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.


27 posted on 06/14/2014 8:57:15 AM PDT by what's up
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To: Huskrrrr
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.

28 posted on 06/14/2014 8:57:30 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Huskrrrr

Indeed.

Sender has record and the receiver as well.


29 posted on 06/14/2014 8:57:59 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: tedw

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.


30 posted on 06/14/2014 8:58:27 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: tedw

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.”


31 posted on 06/14/2014 8:58:43 AM PDT by FourPeas ("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
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To: tedw

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


32 posted on 06/14/2014 8:58:47 AM PDT by Signalman
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To: Josa

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


33 posted on 06/14/2014 8:59:04 AM PDT by Hulka
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To: tedw

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.


34 posted on 06/14/2014 9:00:16 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: tedw

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


35 posted on 06/14/2014 9:01:39 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: tedw
This is a good thread to remind everyone that I'm the queen of England.

5.56mm

36 posted on 06/14/2014 9:01:52 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: tedw
important news like this...fades into obscurity when Nike Introduces...New Air Obamas

Email is OL SKOOL






37 posted on 06/14/2014 9:02:17 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: Signalman

38 posted on 06/14/2014 9:02:25 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: Huskrrrr
My dog ate it.
39 posted on 06/14/2014 9:02:38 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: tedw
Nixon only lost 18 seconds of tape.
40 posted on 06/14/2014 9:02:59 AM PDT by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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