The IRS has told Congress that all of the email Lois Lerner sent or received from people outside the IRS for a two year period have been lost. As you must know, Lois Lerner is the IRS management official who directed much of the agency's war against Tea Party and other conservative or Christian groups. That means that any directions that Lerner got from the White House would have been in those emails that have now vanished.
There is no way that the story from the IRS of the lost emails is true. Supposedly, a computer crashed a few years ago and that resulted in the lost emails. The problem with this, however, is that Congress asked the IRS for these emails more than a year ago. That means that lawyers for the IRS would have gathered the email for review long ago. If the email did not exist any longer, the lawyers would have told that to Congress. After all, it is much easier to state that the emails were destroyed than to argue about whether or not they would be produced. Further, there is also the question of the backup system that surely exists for the government computers that housed the emails. Are we to believe that the IRS does not keep backup for its computer records? Lois Lerner would have had communications with all sorts of taxpayers and their CPA's and lawyers. Were all the agreements, notices, and other documents sent via email also lost when this computer crashed? I don't believe it. Even the federal government which can screw up nearly anything would not operate in a way that allows important records to go without backup.
We need a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this.
There is no way that the story from the IRS of the lost emails is true. Supposedly, a computer crashed a few years ago and that resulted in the lost emails. The problem with this, however, is that Congress asked the IRS for these emails more than a year ago. That means that lawyers for the IRS would have gathered the email for review long ago. If the email did not exist any longer, the lawyers would have told that to Congress. After all, it is much easier to state that the emails were destroyed than to argue about whether or not they would be produced. Further, there is also the question of the backup system that surely exists for the government computers that housed the emails. Are we to believe that the IRS does not keep backup for its computer records? Lois Lerner would have had communications with all sorts of taxpayers and their CPA's and lawyers. Were all the agreements, notices, and other documents sent via email also lost when this computer crashed? I don't believe it. Even the federal government which can screw up nearly anything would not operate in a way that allows important records to go without backup.
We need a special prosecutor to get to the bottom of this.
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