6 IRS computers crush and are 'recycled'- by chance they had files on some scandal :)

[IglooDame]

I for one find it shocking that this came out immediately after the elections were over. Probably on a Friday afternoon, too?

 

[Kyriakos]

^Conspirase theroyist.

 

[Kaitzilla]

Yes.
Friday, Novermber 21st.


http://ricochet.com/friday-document-dump-30000-irs-emails-found/

The midterms are over, the political world is distracted by Obama’s amnesty order, and official Washington has left for the weekend. In other words, a perfect time for the IRS inspector general to quietly note that he may have recovered up to 30,000 “missing” emails sent by Lois Lerner.

His office informed Congress late this afternoon that the information was discovered among the agency’s disaster recovery backup tapes:

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes,” a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner.

Committees in the House and Senate are seeking the emails, which they believe could show Lerner was working in concert with Obama administration officials to target conservative and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status before the 2012 presidential election…

In all, investigators from the inspector general’s office combed through 744 disaster recovery tapes. They are not finished looking.

There are 250 million emails on the tapes that will be reviewed. Officials said it is likely they will find missing emails from other IRS officials who worked under Lerner and who said they suffered computer crashes.

Between Amnesty and Ferguson, this story that the IRS lied countless times to Congress that the emails were lost forever will get about 3 seconds on the news.

And those Obama lawyers who said the disaster recovery tapes would be too onerous to actually search?
Ya, that was a lie too.
An Inspector General is slowly getting it done.

 

[JollyRoger]

And the wrongful tax breaks taken by Tea Party groups will go on forever.

 

[gay_Aleks]

In a similar vein of things, in my dear home country, some investigator got his super-duper important documents stolen from his car.

While taking a leak outside.

I really like to think that there's some car thief, who's completely oblivious of what he just did, stole a car with some of the most important documents of the Republic (not that one, Star Wars fans!).

As opposed to, say, someone hiring a thief to steal the documents. That's bland and unorginal, and not comedic and kind of tragic.