IRS: Oh, By the Way, We Found Those Backups
It turns out the IRS could find Lois Lerner’s homework. In other words, they couldn’t even get the story straight on whether the backups existed or not. Fox News reports, “The head of the IRS confirmed Wednesday that investigators looking into missing emails from ex-agency official Lois Lerner have found and are reviewing ‘backup tapes’ – despite earlier IRS claims that the tapes had been recycled.” Investigators are now looking for “recoverable” information on those disks. It will be interesting to see what, if any, data is recovered, and how it implicates Lerner or others. But the overall picture is simply this: The IRS has stalled, blocked, obstructed and lied every step of the way through the investigation into its political targeting of conservative groups, and they clearly intend to continue. More…
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