IRS Admits They
Haven’t Been Looking For The “Missing” Emails
"Has only
searched a database that it knows does not contain the missing records."
The IRS just came out and gave a reason for why they can’t find Lois Lerner’s missing
emails – they haven’t been looking for them.
Judicial
Watch, a government watchdog group that has been pursuing legal action
against the IRS in regard to the scandal, announced Wednesday that, after months of legal
maneuvering, the IRS finally admitted to a court that they have not searched “any of the
IRS standard computer systems for the ‘missing’ emails of Lois Lerner and other
IRS officials.”
Their reasoning? They claimed “the servers would not result in the
recovery of any information.”
They also said they did not search back-up tapes because there is
“no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering” the
emails, and they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because
they had “no reason to believe such a system…even exists.”
They claimed they did not submit “declarations about any of the
foregoing items because it had no reason to believe that they were sources from
which to recover information lost as a result of Lerner’s hard drive failure.”
Department of Justice attorneys for the IRS previously told
Judicial Watch that Lerner’s emails, along with all government computer
records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government-wide
catastrophe, but that it would be too onerous to search that system. The
IRS admitted that it has only searched a database that it knows does not
contain the missing records.
Read more at http://www.westernjournalism.com/irs-admits-havent-looking-missing-emails/#mTFDD0BzEPhPyclI.99
1 comment:
Surprise, surprise!
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