Posted on 06/17/2014 10:14:32 AM PDT by Mount Athos
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) knew for months that Lois Lerner’s emails had been destroyed, even before the current IRS commissioner testified that his agency would produce all of them.
The IRS knew as early as February 2014 that Lerner’s emails were missing, top lawmakers on the House Committee on Ways and Means confirmed Tuesday. The IRS had this knowledge nearly three months before IRS commissioner John Koskinen agreed at a hearing to turn over all of Lerner’s emails to the committee.
Additionally, the IRS failed to deliver emails from six other IRS employees at the heart of the IRS targeting scandal including former IRS official and frequent White House visitor Nikole Flax, according to the Ways and Means Committee.
“It looks like the American people were lied to and the IRS tried to cover-up the fact it conveniently lost key documents in this investigation,” Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp and Committee member Rep. Charles Boustany said in a statement. “The White House promised full cooperation, the Commissioner promised full access to Lois Lerner emails and now the Agency claims it cannot produce those materials and they’ve known for months they couldn’t do this.”
“Even when the IRS does admit something, they are not fully honest with us,” Camp and Boustany stated. “Despite their attempt to bury the missing Lerner emails on page 15 of a 27 page letter that arrived late Friday, we now know documents from other central figures, like Nikole Flax, are missing. The fact that Ms. Flax was a frequent visitor to the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building only raises more questions. Who was she visiting at the White House and what were they talking about? Was she updating the White House on the targeting or was she getting orders? These are answers we don’t yet have, because – surprise, surprise – a few computers crashed. Plot lines in Hollywood are more believable than what we are getting from this White House and the IRS.”
Book em Dano!
You got that right, brudda.
Had been destroyed is different than missing.
I seriously doubt the IRS used that wording!
Seems to me that they can subpoena the people she sent emails to. The other “to” individuals and the cc will give them more people to subpoena. Surely everybody’s server (or whatever) didn’t crash.
And if wikileaks has them, I hope they get published on the front page of the NY Times...the day before Articles of Impeachment are taken up for the dictator.
It takes time to accidentally loose that many emails in a system crash.
er...lose that many
If there were a group out there opposed to the President's agenda, they would be calling this the Enron administration night and day. But there isn't a group out there that opposes him. Certainly not the GOP.
This is the perfect opportunity to completely decimate the IRS. It is a corrupt, self-protecting, politically-charged bureaucracy that needs a major overhaul and to be cleansed of politics. Now is the time.
This is just part of the strategy to try to convince people that they are actually gone.
The only reason that email would go missing is that they were deleted on purpose. The only reason to purposely delete emails would be to hide something. But nothing will be done, as usual. I am going to try the “my files are missing” trick next April 15th.
The IRS is so full of crap.
Their story breaks down on so many levels. First, emails are never resident on a desk top machine. They are in the server. Everyone over the age of 10 knows this.
Second, emails are not sent to oneself, so EVEN IF that was the case, the emails would still exist somewhere else.
They are lying and not even a good lie.
It’s too bad there is no penalty for lying to Congress. /sarc
The difficulty is that with a corrupt DOJ which includes the US Attorneys, how to get the miscreants arrested and tried?
I’m thinking you need a screen name change to IT Buckhead for your explanation of why this lie is so transparent.
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