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Contrary To IRS Lies, Some 30,000 Lois Lerner "Forever Lost" Emails Have Been Recovered

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/22/2014 12:55 -0400

It is unclear whether the person in charge of the Lois Lerner "disappeared IRS emails" strategy was also Dr. Gruber, but whoever conceived of the idiotic idea that the fatal failure of a local hard disk means that emails which are stored on at least one server miles away, and subsequently downloaded via POP3, IMAP or some other protocol, have vaporized, clearly also relied on the stupidity (and laziness) of the American people.

And like in the case of Obamacare, the lies worked, if only for a short period of time.

And because when it comes to lies coming from the very top, there is never just one cockroach, and they always inevitably scatter, the latest headache for a scandal-ridden president is that Lois Lerner's email, supposedly gone in perpetuity, have mysteriously reappeared, and as the Washington Examiner reports, "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."

As we suggested months ago, when the ridiculously idiotic excuse for Lerner's email disappearance first emerged, all one needed to do to recover the emails was to go to the email server itself. Or, worst case, its backup. This is precisely what the U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has done, and as he informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday, 30,000 or so emails were found among hundreds of "disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

This is hardly a surprise. What is far more shocking is that the IRS assumed the US public is dumb enough that this simple fix would never ever be considered. But when, as has lately been made abundantly clear, most of US domestic policy under the Obama administration has been guided by the assumption that US voters are idiots, that too is also hardly a surprise.

More on Lerner soon no longer having the opportunity of pleading "the fif":

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes,” a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner.

The IRS, in a statement provided to the Examiner, said the agency and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is fully cooperating with the investigation.

"As Commissioner Koskinen has stated, the IRS welcomes TIGTA’s independent review and expert forensic analysis." The IRS statement said. "Commissioner Koskinen has said for some time he would be pleased if additional Lois Lerner emails from this time frame could be found."

As has been previously revealed, various Congressional committees have been seeking the emails, which they believe could show Lerner was working in concert with Obama administration officials to target conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status before the 2012 presidential election, something Obama has religiously denied in the past.

The missing emails extend from 2009 to 2011, a period when Lerner headed the IRS’s exempt-organizations division. The emails were lost when Lerner’s computer crashed, IRS officials said earlier this year.

In June Koskinen told Congress the emails were probably lost for good because the disaster recovery tape holds onto the data for only six months. He said even if the IRS had sought the emails within the six-month period, it would have been a complicated and difficult process to produce them from the tapes.

Apparently it wasn't, and it now turns out that there are 250 million emails on the tapes that will be reviewed. Officials said it is likely they will find missing emails from other IRS officials who worked under Lerner and who said they suffered computer crashes.

The best development out of this scandal is that the IRS will never again have to resort to using the "Windows 95 ate my emails" excuse. It remains to be seen just which NSA collaborator will be the benefiviary of the government's PC spending capex largesse.

We end witha comment by Darrell Issa, who like a rabid dog, has refused to let go of the Lerner scent from the beginning.

“Though it is unclear whether TIGTA has found all of the missing Lois Lerner e-mails, there may be significant information in this discovery,” Issa told the Examiner. “The Oversight Committee will be looking for information about her mindset and who she was communicating with outside the IRS during a critical period of time when the IRS was targeting conservative groups. This discovery also underscores the lack of cooperation Congress has received from the IRS. The agency first failed to disclose the loss to Congress and then tried to declare Lerner’s e-mails gone and lost forever. Once again it appears the IRS hasn’t been straight with Congress and the American people.”

And, lo and behold, Issa's relentless pursuit is about to pay off. Then again, will anyone care if Obama is exposed having lied to the American public on yet one more occasion.

By now America's "idiot voters" will be more shocked if the president actually told the truth for once.

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Sat, 11/22/2014 - 15:35 | 5477214 Creepy A. Cracker

Aren't we all just THRILLED that the IRS is now in charge of our health care (ObamaCare) ?

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Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:08 | 5477395 Lea

30 000 e-mails? That woman was writing non-stop?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:09 | 5477396 Lostinfortwalton

We found some folks' emails. It was the right thing to do. Now I have gotta go to a fund-raiser somewhere warm and definitely nowhere near St. Louis.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:10 | 5477401 ClowardPiven2016

right after the mid-term elections and early enough to become a non issue in 2016

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:20 | 5477422 matinee55

how much are we paying these inept, fraudlent lying imbeciles supported by the leftard msm!!!!!!!!!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:20 | 5477424 matinee55

Americians truly are stupid to keep putting up with this excrement

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 20:36 | 5477831 Lostinfortwalton

Nobody is buying it, but the Josh Earnest 'Gong Show' is too compelling to stop watching.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:25 | 5477435 bugs_

Now that the elections are over...oh LOOK what WE found!

Its like the sudden re-discovery of WMDs in Iraq

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 19:47 | 5477744 Plato's Law

Was there an election? Thank GOD I un-registered from the voter rolls. I feel so much cleaner!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:35 | 5477457 Dre4dwolf

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Even if the emails revealed that she commited massive fraud and targeted people based on their political, religious or any other belief to harras with fraudulant taxation and enforcement . . . do you think she will go to jail?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:36 | 5477463 Dre4dwolf

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To make it even easier to answer, if her emails revealed that she went out at night and murdered people in their sleep based on their beliefs, do you think she or anyone involved in govt will go to jail?

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:36 | 5477462 thebigunit

"McConnell has already taken Impeachment off the table,..."

Well, yeah. But . . .

"There's a new Sheriff in town."

I'm sure that there are intrigues within intrigues. Way too many to count. And too early to tell which ones are going to go anywhere.

I suspect that there is a cabal of Democrats who have figured out that impeachment might be a good thing and not a bad thing.

Short of having Obama "martyred" a la JFK, and a grieving and remorseful public sweeping President Biden into office to "fulfill Obama's legacy", an arguable "good thing" for Dems would be to have Obama "go away" sooner rather than later, to give Dems a chance to recover their composure and deniability: "Obamacare" was Obama's deal. He lied to use just like he lied to you."

The are endless scenarios:

1. A committee of Democrat elders could visit Obamba in the Oval Office and suggest that he come down with a soap opera disease ("Parkinsons, Alzheimer's, muscular dystrophy, leposy") and resign from office so he could devote his full energy to his recovery.

2. A group of renegage far left Dems could announce that they are ready to support imeachment because Obama hasn't done enough, and Vice President Elizabeth Warren would be a far better President. (How did Elizabeth Warren get to be Vice President you ask? How did Gerald Ford get to be Vice President?).

3. Republicans could disclose that Benghazi/Fast and Furious/IRS Scandal/Immigration-gate was worse than anyone knew and shame a few Dems into pressuring Obama to resign.

Bottom line:

McConnell can SAY that impeachment is off the table AS FAR AS HE IS CONCERNED. But events can create "facts on the ground" that are beyond his control, and he can easily turn around and say: "The devil made me do it"

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 17:49 | 5477494 theyjustcantstop

if they are truly the original tapes, the investigation can now proceed corectly.

you go to the lowest person on the totem pole, and state one lie your're out, along with your pension, two lies, and your daily intake of sunshine will deminish.

these people on the bottom realize their as expendable in the govt. schemes, as toilet paper, it will be fun to watch, going up the ladder, one step at a time.

if their going to try to get o'bama, i'll be pissed, their not going to get him.

why do you think they set up a 8 figure legal defense fund before he threw his hat in the ring, why do you think he only reads from a tele-promter, his lawyers read the speeches so there is plausable deniablity, this is why without the tele-promter he stumbles on every word.

every mid-level marxist govt. employee they can get rid of will help, i just wish they could get rid of these mid-level marxist at the state dept., but it looks as if hitlery was right about benghazi, who cares.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:20 | 5477513 Dingleberry

Like any of this shit matters.

The media (except one network) has ignored everything this administration has done illegal immoral or wrong since day 1.

There are more readers on this blog who know who Gruber is than all the democrat voters in the country combined.

The media will defend this debauched and depraved administration at all costs...since the media creamed its panties when he got elected and then again. They have and always will felate him.

So on't get your hopes up for any fireworks.

The media has the emperor's back, and will do him yet another solid. And then call you a hater, a nut, etc. if you dare criticize an obviously well-meaning servant of the unwashed masses.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:04 | 5477532 NoWayJose

"We now have recovered all of the Lerner emails, after our 5 year investigation into the email backup and recovery system" - the IRS Inspector General will proclaim -- on January 20, 2017 -- the day AFTER Hillary is inaugurated!

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:37 | 5477595 honestann

Don't worry, the 30,000 emails recovered were those emails that were already carefully vetting to assure no incriminating evidence existed. Anyone who imagines these emails have not already been selectively filtered is... well... dumber than a rock.

Sat, 11/22/2014 - 18:43 | 5477613 VWAndy