30,000 missing emails from IRS' Lerner recovered

Washington Examiner ^ | November 21, 2014 | Susan Ferrechio

[CivilWarBrewing]

Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes,” a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner.

[a fool in paradise]

Wonder what’s coming next Wednesday/Thursday/Friday when the news on tv (and an absence of live talk radio programs) means only coverage of football games, traffic, weather, and crowds at the mall...

[DAC21]

30,000 emails, I suspect she received a lot more than she sent. Maybe the Stupid party can wise up for a few months and bring down the whole cabal.

Then again, I suspect lizard head John Koskinen was just buying time for said cabal to delete the incriminating emails.

[RedMDer]

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[DBrow]

“That would involves scores of people who would ALL have to keep their mouths shut.”

Or three NSA guys with a supercomputer and a compartmentalized clearance.

[Kackikat]

A news bombshell created to take Zerogration off the news.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow that sounds like a lot of stories I heard about him, he was an incredible human being. I use to work at Flushing hospital in New york city in the 1980s and a lot of hospital bills were taken care of by a ‘john Carter” which we always took as Heston.

[Enterprise]

Agree. It is PROOF POSITIVE! They are having to swallow their own vomit now.

[TurboZamboni]

It’s all spam on how to make your winky bigger and Louis
read them all.

[Norm Lenhart]

And as he is a former Dem, I have doubts of his seriousness. Reagan was the exception to the rule. This guy was a college lib.

[babbabooey]

To: Lois Lerner
From: Valerie Jarrett
Subject: Tea Baggers

Lois,

You have done well My Young APPRENTICE...

Valerie

P.S. Remember, that I gave u that cushy job & I can take it away!

[a fool in paradise]

The emails were never lost to begin with. The emails had to come from someone and someone had to receive them. Even if HER copies were gone, the senders/recipients emails were still around. 15 harddrives wouldn’t tackle all of the people in such send lists.

[combat_boots]

Form response letters to send_all distro lists

[combat_boots]

The man was a mensch.

[combat_boots]

Makes you wonder when the RFQ for a pulverizer will show up on BizOpps.

[combat_boots]

Call me stupid. What does that mean?

[dragnet2]

We have one of the most corrupt governments on the planet.

[COBOL2Java]

Elections have consequences. The loss of the Senate and continued control of the House is making a lot of these jackasses lose sleep now.

Exactly. What IRS higher-up will be facing next year:

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...what his mind will see:

[ElkGroveDan]

What’s the chance that they “selectively” recovered emails or perhaps even “massaged” them a bit before turning them over?

I agree. Issa needs to request the raw data that they were recovered from and they need to contract out to private tech companies to audit the final product, and that includes spot checking for the same messages on the machines of multiple recipient messages as well as comparing the text of quoted replies internally and externally with the product that was submitted. They need count every space and every comma.

[Tucker39]

Ping me, please.

[DAC21]

“Exactly. What IRS higher-up will be facing next year”

Gowdy needs to put up or shut up. He definitely talks the best game for the stupid party, but I'm sick of ZERO results to show for it. We don't need no stinkin Darrell Issa Jr's .