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'Potential criminal activity'

Lois Lerner emails are now the subject of a criminal investigation



If you watched the testimony of IRS officials like John Koskinen and Lois Lerner, you probably came away more confused than enlightened. Stories were exposed as lies, facts shifted, and statements contradicted each other until the whole thing devolved into a chaotic - and obvious - morass of misdirection. But there are a few things we know.

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First the IRS said it would turn over all of Lerner's emails. They turned over some of them, but claimed the rest were lost and that there were no backups. Then they said "the hard drives were destroyed." Then they said they hadn't followed proper tape-backup procedures. Then they said it had the tapes but they were too hard to access. Then they said it would scour the tapes. Finally, we learned that no one ever bothered to look in the first place, and that all of the various stories have at least some element about them that was patently, provably, false. If you're being generous, the "most transparent administration in history" was stonewalling. If you're not, it was willfully withholding evidence from Congress in an efort to cover its tracks. ...And that question is now the subject of a criminal investigation. The Washington Times reports:
The IRS’s inspector general confirmed Thursday it is conducting a criminal investigation into how Lois G. Lerner’s emails disappeared, saying it took only two weeks for investigators to find hundreds of tapes the agency’s chief had told Congress were irretrievably destroyed. Investigators have already scoured 744 backup tapes and gleaned 32,774 unique emails, but just two weeks ago they found an additional 424 tapes that could contain even more Lerner emails, Deputy Inspector General Timothy P. Camus told the House Oversight Committee in a rare late-night hearing meant to look into the status of the investigation. “There is potential criminal activity,” Mr. Camus said.
Potential criminal activity? Ya don't say!

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