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30,000 missing emails from IRS' Lerner recovered
Washington Examiner ^ | November 21, 2014 | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 11/21/2014 2:03:17 PM PST by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201411; abuseofpower; coverup; cultureofcorruption; delay; democratscandals; destroyedevidence; emails; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; irsscandals; lerner; lerneremails; lois; loislerner; mtweather; stalling
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To: MNDude

Hopefully some are Admin. Officials that destroyed their hard drives to conceal crimes.
Now the emails will come to light.

So not only will it show a conspiracy to commit crimes but tampering/ destroying evidence and government records.

It’s always the cover up that takes them down.


141 posted on 11/21/2014 7:17:31 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The original 1998 version)
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To: Enterprise

“The loss of the Senate and continued control of the House is making a lot of these jackasses lose sleep now.”

I’m with you. I want heads on pikes and well-publicized Perp Walks on the Evening News for the next two years!

FUBO! *SPIT*


142 posted on 11/21/2014 7:47:54 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Uh oh, looks like Lois pissed off the wrong IT guy.


143 posted on 11/21/2014 7:57:42 PM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Visualize whirled peas.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Geek revenge


144 posted on 11/21/2014 7:59:28 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

They’re not hiding anything anymore.

Obama just legalized how many people? He did it all in violation of our Constitution.

And he’s getting away with it.


145 posted on 11/21/2014 8:11:56 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: RetiredArmy

Yes - Thursday... daughter’s doing the day and I’m just showing up. Thanks Army...


146 posted on 11/21/2014 8:21:03 PM PST by GOPJ ('Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State' Vladimir Lenin1945 pamphlet)
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To: Tzimisce
And he’s getting away with it.

Want to strike terror in the heart of any "conservative" pundit? Just mention impeachment or the power of the purse aka "shutting down the government". Boo!

147 posted on 11/21/2014 8:23:44 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: howlinhound

Takes a long time to wash 30k emails.


148 posted on 11/21/2014 8:25:27 PM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing; All

I would agree the revelation of this “discovery/recovery” is questionable, and those that said these emails were lost forever should be brought up on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice, and a Congressional investigation...

But...

30K emails by one person???

I would like to see any raised hands of anyone who believes an individual can pump out 30K emails in the same time (supposedly) that she was in that position at the IRS???

I mean I believe this is another smokescreen to make it difficult to determine the critical emails (trails) that she (and a few others) actually might, go to prison for that documentation of their oppressive activities...

Like a few have alluded to here in this discussion...I’m not betting on seeing ANYTHING happen to this person, or any others, for their abuses...


149 posted on 11/21/2014 8:27:22 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: centurion316
You wrote: Issa is going to be replaced, the Senate will have a Republican chair and the hearings can move forward with new rigor and with new evidence.

You might want to take a course in how to format a sentence in English.

Why the personal attack? How does Gruber lying relate to you not clearly stating what you mean? Just like a liberal, all you can do is an ad hominem attack, rather than simply stating what you meant in the rest of your reply.
150 posted on 11/21/2014 8:30:12 PM PST by jps098
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To: windsorknot
Want to strike terror in the heart of any "conservative" pundit? Just mention impeachment or the power of the purse aka "shutting down the government". Boo!

Republicans aren't going to do any of those things.

I guess we just have to live with the tyranny. :(
151 posted on 11/21/2014 8:33:41 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Tzimisce
I guess we just have to live with the tyranny.

Better to live free, but that requires qualities our politicians don't possess.

152 posted on 11/21/2014 8:42:18 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: eyeamok

Yeah, I don’t trust Darrell Issa.

Good old Darrell was one of the gang who stabbed Tim Donnelly in the back during the primary so that GOPe stooge Neel Kashkari would have a clear shot a running for governor. Anyone who supported that clown is not to be trusted.


153 posted on 11/21/2014 8:50:42 PM PST by Pelham (Lawbreaking foreigners get rewarded with amnesty. Laws are for suckers.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

I imagine that with Issa out then I imagine that the entire investigation is on the road that leads to nowhere. My guess is that the order has already gone out from the GOP masters to shut it down.


154 posted on 11/21/2014 8:58:25 PM PST by Revel
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To: CivilWarBrewing

Wonder how long before they are “lost” again....


155 posted on 11/21/2014 9:14:05 PM PST by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!)
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To: howlinhound
Nailed it! We're about to get the "cleaned up, sanitized" version.

No thanks.

156 posted on 11/21/2014 9:14:39 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Constitution?)
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To: CivilWarBrewing

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes”

Um...okay, .PST files and maybe they had to hack a password which was probably her cat’s name.

First it was “the hard drive was destroyed” and then the govt had terminated its contract with the company doing the backups, just a couple of weeks before the search was on for her emails.

Now suddenly there are backup tapes after all (DOH!), and thousands of emails are magically available. Which means they’ve been scrubbed, redacted, etc. So they’re benign. And won’t be of any value.

Looks like the O-thogocracy changing direction again in the midst of the REAL scandals in order to spin the news cycle back to “Remember Lois Lerner? Well there’s nothing to see here. But we DID look into it!”


157 posted on 11/21/2014 11:42:14 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
Someone at The IRS really, really, really needs to go to jail.

There... Fixed it for you.
158 posted on 11/22/2014 12:16:11 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
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To: GOPJ

after the election


159 posted on 11/22/2014 12:31:57 AM PST by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: Enterprise

“The loss of the Senate and continued control of the House is making a lot of these jackasses lose sleep now.”

One can’t imagine how those arrogant, psychotic, adolescent, soul-less beings can lose sleep. It can’t be possible.

IMHO


160 posted on 11/22/2014 2:45:37 AM PST by ripley
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