CORRUPT IRS ERASES LOIS LERNER EMAIL BACKUP TAPES!

Do they really think we’re stupid enough to believe this was just an accident?

WASHINGTON TIMES – The IRS erased backup tapes with Lois G. Lerner emails even after the messages were subject to a congressional subpoena, likely permanently losing as many as 24,000 emails, investigators said Thursday.

Still, the tax agency didn’t actually destroy some of its backup tapes but only “degaussed” them, which meant the agency’s inspector general was able to go back and recover the messages.

“They destroyed evidence. That’s what they did,” said House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican.

He wondered whether it was a “coincidence” the erasure came just a month after President Obama dismissed the tea party targeting scandal as a non-issue.

Democrats said the erasures weren’t an intentional effort to hide the information from Congress or the inspector general, and the investigators who recovered the tapes agreed.

Still, Deputy Inspector General Timothy P. Camus told the committee that the IRS did not make efforts to try to find the lost emails by looking at the backup tapes.

All told, the inspector general has recovered about 1,000 emails that the IRS never turned over to Congress, but there are as many as 24,000 other emails that are missing and likely lost for good.

It wouldn’t surprise me when Obama leaves the White House that they just burn the damn thing down to ensure they cover their tracks. The corruption of this administration knows no bounds!


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