More Lost Emails: FEC Destroyed Hard Drive of Ex-Lerner Employee

News Max ^ | July 15 2014 | Melanie Batley

[PoloSec]

In addition to the destruction of former IRS official Lois Lerner's computer hard drive, the Federal Election Commission recycled the hard drive of one of her former employees, adding to the list of emails that have gone missing in relation to the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.

In a letter to the FEC, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa and committee member Jim Jordan blasted the destruction of FEC attorney April Sands' hard drive, saying it has hindered the investigation.

"The FEC's failure to retain Ms. Sands' hard drive prevented the FEC Office of Inspector General from fully pursuing appropriate criminal sanctions for Ms. Sands' admitted violation of federal law," the letter said. "Like the IRS's destruction of Lois Lerner's hard drive, the FEC’s recycling of Ms. Sands' hard drive may have also destroyed material responsive to Freedom of Information Act and congressional oversight requests."

Sands resigned from the FEC in April after admitting to violating the Hatch Act, which bans executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time or at federal facilities.

She also had a history of tweeting criticism of Republicans while praising President Barack Obama, the Daily Caller reported.

Hussein Obama is simply smarter than U? Stand down, Signed #Obama2012 #p2."

And in a message on Aug. 25, 2012, Sands called Republicans her "enemy."

[Raycpa]

These email stories seem like an excuse not to pursue this. There was a time in the not so distant past before emails that investigators knew how to obtain evidence from interviews and other forensic methods.

[gr8eman]

You are correct...independent investigators do and can get the goods...but chikensheet repubs are afraid to investigate because they know the commie mafia will come right back at them. I say Bring it On...this needs to be settled sooner than later!

[Sans-Culotte]

Some IRS people need to go to jail over this. No, we’ll never get to trace the emails to Obama and Jarrett; but the people who actually carried this out need to do some time. Too many people have gone to jail over tax evasion to let these bastards escape the just punishment for their perfidy.

[Tallguy]

Here, here!

[jimpick]

This is criminal activity but the repubs will do nothing about it. I hope the repub leadership are the first ones jailed when our government collapses. There is no way that multiple hard drives crashed like this. And just the hard drives for the people who admit to being criminals. Seriuosly I have had a computer in my house since 1991 and still have yet to loss all the data on a hard drive.