90 Miles From Tyranny : IRS Employees Erased 422 Backup Tapes Containing 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s Emails

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Friday, June 26, 2015

IRS Employees Erased 422 Backup Tapes Containing 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s Emails

Investigators at the Internal Revenue Service are looking to agency employees as the reason thousands of emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner were lost, and the agency’s watchdog said today their actions were a mistake.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) J. Russell George testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and told lawmakers IRS employees erased 422 backup tapes that housed 24,000 emails sent to and from Lerner.

Employees erased the contents of the tapes just a month after IRS officials were told that thousands of Lerner’s emails were missing because of a hard drive crash.

In his testimony, George said he “did not uncover evidence that the erasure was done in furtherance of an effort to destroy evidence or conceal information from Congress and...
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2 comments:

Emily said...

Maybe we should just ask the Chinese if they have a copy of Lerner's emails. When they hacked D.C. I sure they were meticulous about collection all emails and information. Couldn't hurt to ask.

Woodsterman (Odie) said...

Time to put a fence around DC and start a new capital somewhere else.