Lois Lerner: The Computer Dog Ate All the Incriminating IRS Homework

When lies, spin, and denials fail, blame technology.

“We can’t find it”:

As an investigation continues into former IRS official Lois Lerner and her involvement in inappropriately targeting conservative groups, the agency confirmed Friday that it has allegedly lost countless emails that could shed light on how far the scandal actually spread. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp was outraged upon learning of the development, insisting that it should not have taken this long for the IRS to determine the correspondences no longer exist.

The fact that I am just learning about this,” he said, “over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries.”

Camp also indicated the emails that were reportedly lost when an IRS hard drive crashed in 2011 were from an integral period of the scandal.

“Frankly,” he continued, “these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies.”

Without any documentation of her discussion with other administration officials, he concluded, “we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone.”

Plenty of Americans agree this revelation seems suspicious.

 

One GOP Congressman suggested that the NSA’s omnipotent capabilities be put to good use:

Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) asked the National Security Agency on Friday to turn over all the metadata it has collected on the email accounts of former IRS official Lois Lerner from January 2009 to April 2011. Stockman’s clever move comes hours after the tax agency apparently claimed it had lost Lerner’s emails from that same time period due to a computer glitch.

“I have asked NSA Director Rogers to send me all metadata his agency has collected on Lois Lerner’s email accounts for the period which the House sought records,” Stockman said in a press release. “The metadata will establish who Lerner contacted and when, which helps investigators determine the extent of illegal activity by the IRS.”

“The claim incriminating communications were erased by a glitch conjures memories of Rose Mary Woods,” the congressman added.  “Barack Obama has brought us Jimmy Carter’s economy and Richard Nixon’s excuses.”

Congress requested all emails sent from Lerner to and from other IRS employees from early 2009 to April 2011. After promising to turn them over, the IRS said Friday it can’t find any of those emails.

Stockman isn’t the only member of Congress who isn’t buying the excuse. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) asked, “If there wasn’t nefarious conduct that went much higher than Lois Lerner in the IRS targeting scandal, why are they playing these games?”

TheBlaze has reached out to Frederick R. Chang, a recognized national expert in cyber security and SMU professor, to see if there are ways the emails “lost” due to a glitch or crash could be recovered. We will update this story should he respond.

A run down of IRS corruption:

According to 2012 emails obtained by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House officials.

Lois Lerner, then head of the IRS Tax Exempt Organizations division, also received an email alongside White House officials that contained confidential information.  More emails uncover Lerner’s role in the conspiracy, including proof that she gave confidential taxpayer information to the FEC, violating federal law.  She was also caught on tape,discussing the pressure being put on the IRS to do something about the money being spent by conservatives on the election as a result of Citizens United.  Guess where the pressure came from.

IRS employees in Cincinnati were warned not to talk to the press “or risk losing our jobs.”

J. Christian Adams, the former DOJ attorney who blew the whistle on Holder’s refusal to prosecute the Black Panthers for voter intimidation, was himself targeted by the IRS for critical articles he published in Pajamas Media.

Obama met with top IRS official William Wilkins before the targeting began.  As a matter of fact, a Cincinnati IRS employee testified that it was quite clear the orders came from D.C.

The IRS engaged in the deliberate suppression, harassment, and intimidation of patriotic and conservative groups, and those who focus on the Constitution and criticize government spending.

Documents reveal that the IRS targeted specific groups by name.

Under Obama’s direction, the IRS didn’t have any trouble defining his preference of sympathetic leftwing groups over Tea Party/GOP organizations. Any request from groups with “patriot”, Tea Party”, or “conservative” in their name was automatically placed at the bottom of the pile or discarded entirely.  IRS employees testified to that fact, and much more.

So, what will the GOP do about it?  As of now, no one in the entire Obama regime, including the Corruptocrat-in-Chief is being held accountable for their crimes.  Instead, they’re paraded in front of Congressional hearings where hot air passes for real prosecution because the GOP lacks the balls to stop them.

All the snarky responses won’t amount to squat unless they back it up.