From Politico.
Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.
“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
It may just be standard government procedure, but the revelation is significant because some lawmakers and observers thought there was a way that tech experts could revive Lerner’s emails after they were washed away in a computer crash in the summer of 2011. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), for example, subpoenaed her damaged hard drive earlier this week, when he asked for “all hard drives, external drives, thumb drives and computers” and “all electronic communication devices the IRS issued to Lois G. Lerner.”
“IT experts have weighed in and said yes — we can get those” emails, said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) earlier Wednesday.
Of course they can be retrieved. Emails are stored on the server, not the hard drive, unless you copy them for your own records. But, just wait until they start “recycling” the servers.
Lois Lerner and her IRS thugs are doing every thing they can to cover their tracks after they were caught discriminating against conservative, Republican, and Tea Party groups.
Congress needs to start making arrests. Subpoenas and hearings aren’t enough. All they do is lie, spin, and deny. When they’re held in contempt, back it up with jail time, not more hot air and blustering. If an ordinary American citizen had done a fraction of what the Obama regime has done in the last five years, they’d be under the fucking prison.
While they put on dog and pony shows, we’re still waiting for justice.
