The House Ways and Means Committee is seeking all documents the IRS has pertaining to former official Lois Lerner, and that includes emails.
Guess what the Committee has been told:
IRS claims to have lost Over 2 years of Lerner emails, cannot produce emails written to outside agencies, White House http://t.co/5SBxuEVVdu
— Ways and Means GOP (@WaysandMeansGOP) June 13, 2014
Lost them?
Here’s the first paragraph from a press release from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp:
Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service informing the Committee that they have lost Lois Lerner emails from a period of January 2009 – April 2011. Due to a supposed computer crash, the agency only has Lerner emails to and from other IRS employees during this time frame. The IRS claims it cannot produce emails written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.
Simply amazing.
https://twitter.com/kesgardner/status/477540843767623680
https://twitter.com/JayCaruso/status/477540259090427905
That appears to be what they’re claiming.
https://twitter.com/tylerhunter23/status/477547657770987520
The IRS would accept a similar excuse from a private taxpayer, right?
Wonder what the #IRS would say if we told them we couldn’t submit tax documents because of a computer crash… http://t.co/OZAW6vhNR8
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) June 13, 2014
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https://twitter.com/chelseagrunwald/status/477544382711611392
https://twitter.com/Queen2Five/status/477553322040115202
Heaven help a taxpayer who “lost” information. But nobody can find Lois Lerner’s emails? No biggie.
@WaysandMeansGOP How convenient.
— blewyt (@blewyt) June 13, 2014
@WaysandMeansGOP two years of lost Lois Lerner emails is just a bit longer than Nixon's 18 hours of lost tape. Ya think?
— JEL (@link5dc) June 13, 2014
@WaysandMeansGOP @charlescwcooke There are IT guys in small biz all over US who could find them in a morming's work.
— F. J. Andrews (@DrFJAndrews) June 13, 2014
@WaysandMeansGOP And they're allowed to get away this outright corruption?!
— Poppy (@Aletheiaquester) June 13, 2014
The Obama IRS can't really expect us to believe they just lost Lois Lerner's emails do they? We have an uninformed electorate not a dead one
— Conservativ American (@JustConservativ) June 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/JumpVote/status/477542186293010433
https://twitter.com/_SolesOfPassion/status/477549129917165569
@WaysandMeansGOP @instapundit BULLSHIT! Go after them!
— Kathy H. (@rynlyn) June 13, 2014
The IRS didn't lose Lerner's emails. The only thing "lost" is this administration's damn mind.
— Jerome Hudson (@JeromeEHudson) June 13, 2014
https://twitter.com/JonnybeHood/status/477549777324761089
https://twitter.com/sqwerin/status/477545584459403265
https://twitter.com/JamesSandiford2/status/477541977165414400
NSA to the rescue?
https://twitter.com/amandacarpenter/status/477541929026985984
https://twitter.com/LadyLiberty1885/status/477549190567182336
The “historic levels of transparency” keep failing to impress.
The Obama Administration is so transparent they make things disappear!
— Lisa De Pasquale (@LisaDeP) June 13, 2014
To this administration that’s a feature not a bug.
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