Congressional investigators say the Internal Revenue Service has lost more emails connected to the tea party investigation.
The IRS said last Friday it had lost an untold number of emails when Lois Lerner’s computer crashed in 2011. Lerner used to head the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status.
On Tuesday, two key lawmakers said the IRS has also lost emails from additional officials whose computers crashed. Among them was Nikole Flax, who was chief of staff to Lerner’s boss, then-deputy commissioner Steven Miller.
Miller later became acting IRS commissioner, but was forced to resign last year after the agency acknowledged that agents had improperly scrutinized tea party and other conservative groups when they applied for tax-exempt status.
The IRS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(AP)
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Unfair to the IRS. Wouldn’t you “lose” any emails that incriminated you? Would you save the email that would cost you your job, and perhaps your pension, or would you “accidentally” delete it?
How convienient. Try telling that to the IRS auditor the next time they come after you.
Strange. Emails are not typically stored on a personal computer/terminal. How would they be ‘lost’ if the PC/terminal crashed?
They weren’t lost.
These animals are as guilty as sin.
THROW THEM IN PRISON!