Lois Lerner email: 'No one will ever believe' two hard drives 'crashed' within a week

Brett T. | 10:32 PM on February 26, 2015

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday evening received an update from IRS Deputy Inspector General Timothy P. Camus on the ongoing efforts to recover former IRS director Lois Lerner’s missing emails. Although Lerner had insisted that her emails had been lost in a hard drive crash and the backup tapes destroyed, Camus said investigators were able to find hundreds of “irretrievably destroyed” tapes in just a couple of weeks.

According to the Washington Times, Camus says he has found 32,744 unique emails that were backed up from Lois Lerner’s email box.

.@TGowdySC questions witnesses on missing #IRS emails. pic.twitter.com/ueIbwcyuit

— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) February 27, 2015

IG finds missing tapes, learns IRS never bothered to look for them: https://t.co/cAwAvvdGyk

— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) February 27, 2015

If you can believe it, here's an actual email sent by Lois Lerner: pic.twitter.com/1VY09EYaCz

— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) February 27, 2015

That, along with the alleged absence of any backups, did raise a few red flags in the IRS targeting scandal.

But wait… There's more! 424 new IRS tapes found by the IG: https://t.co/vFvwP71QlH

— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) February 27, 2015

But Lerner had testified under oath that she had done nothing wrong, before quickly taking the Fifth.

https://twitter.com/388fjv9/status/571128919992061952

https://twitter.com/HateManBaby/status/571131194622009344

https://twitter.com/RandomHero30/status/571131782856351744

@RepMarkMeadows As was screamed by all of us who'd worked in IT, any point in the last 25 years. Everything is always backed up @JohnEkdahl

— Snake Plisskenish (@_CrotalusAtrox_) February 27, 2015