A miraculous thing happened this week. After years of stonewalling Congress with claims that Lois Lerner’s emails were lost forever and could not be recovered, the IRS finally handed them over to congressional investigators for analysis.
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.
The original claim by the IRS that Lerner’s emails were not backed up has always been a lie, and an obvious one at that. You would have to be particularly gullible to believe a government agency that demands citizens maintain personal financial records for years in the off chance of audit would not have failsafe systems in place should there be a catastrophic loss of data.
But that didn’t stop the IRS from lying to Congress over and over again when they insisted that Lerner’s emails could not be produced. The reason is simple: they thought they could get away with it.
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