Posted on 06/17/2014 6:30:29 PM PDT by grundle
The Internal Revenue Service is required by federal law to keep records of all agency emails and to print out hard copies of the emails to make sure they get saved in the event of a computer glitch.
The IRS recently claimed that it lost 24,000 of 67,000 emails that ex-official Lois Lerner sent between 2009 and 2011, due to a computer crash. The IRS, which agreed to turn over all of Lerners emails to the House Committee on Ways and Means, specifically lost emails Lerner sent to other Obama administration agencies and the White House. Lerner is a major figure in the targeting scandal that has hit the IRS.
Meanwhile, President Barack Obamas press secretary, Josh Earnest, backed up the IRSs claim of a computer crash. The IRS claimed that it is currently working to retrieve the emails by working with the other agencies, which are not obligated by the IRSs agreement with the Ways and Means Committee to cooperate.
The [Federal Records Act] requires agencies to make and preserve records of agency decisions, policies, and essential transactions, and to take steps to safeguard against the loss of agency records, said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, who subpoenaed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
We want immunity for IRS whistleblowers, and we want it now.
DISMANTLE the I.R.S. (Internal Revenue for Socialists) of the U.S.A. (United Sociaiists of America)
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
BIG GOVERNMENT (and its collectives) IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Bob moved to Brazil. He set the password.
Lerner is one of the goons at G.A.G. (Great American Gestapo).
LOL! As legit as any absurdity we've heard.
One loss is a really ironic coincidence. The very fact that it isn’t just HER email but six more IRS staffers under investigation proves it is a conspiracy. You don’t get that many crashed hard drives wiping out emails - of just the lead people called in to talk about the targeting of conservatives.
IRS Has Lost More E-mails . . .
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/380576/irs-has-lost-more-e-mails-eliana-johnson
In other words, the computer pleads the fifth too.
When has 0Bamma had any respect whatsoever for the laws of this country? Get real!
LOL! THAT'LL teach that incompetent bastitch.
"wound my heart with a monotonous languor"
Agreed. Saving printed copies is lunacy. How would you go about searching through reams of paper to find anything?
I wonder if this revelation will be cause for a change in strategy for any lawyers attempting to defend against an assigned fine or penalty from the IRS?
No space aliens took her e-mails. We need to contact them.
I'm on week 4 of explaining to the IRS their own form 1040 instruction manual.
The incompetent tax leeches don't deign to talk to ordinary taxpeasants themselves.
They have "people" (tax assisters or tax abrothers) to do it for them.
ate the printouts.
Just send a subpoena to the NSA for their copies.
The last time I post this. Orrin Hatch said “This is STARTING to look suspicious.”
“its just a way to delay and embarrass the congress”
No, it is a way to delay and make the Lerner/IRS investigation moot and pointless.
Those printouts were destroyed in a fire.... a boating accident. Hey, that’s the favorite excuse around here!
A friend works for the government and has lost two separate computers to hard drive crashes or blue screen death. Each time they give him a new computer, he turns it on, and there are all his old emails. Not like they are only stored on his computer. These lies are breathtaking.
Ruh, Roh. Better find someway to distract the sheeple. Start a war or something.
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