Wall Street Journal: IRS Finds Missing Emails of Former Top Official Lerner in Targeting Probe:
Investigators for the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration recently recovered the emails from IRS backup tapes, according to a spokeswoman for the watchdog agency. The emails belong to a former top IRS official, Lois Lerner, who has been a focus of congressional inquiries. ...
Top IRS officials had told lawmakers that backup tapes were routinely recycled and therefore weren't useful in the effort to find the missing email records. The agency said it had used other employees’ hard drives to recover thousands of the missing emails.
But TIGTA investigators succeeded in locating thousands of Ms. Lerner’s emails on the backup tapes. ...
The IRS said in a statement: “As Commissioner Koskinen has stated, the IRS welcomes TIGTA’s independent review and expert forensic analysis. Commissioner Koskinen has said for some time he would be pleased if additional Lois Lerner emails from this time frame could be found.”
The revelations promise to draw new attention to the targeting controversy, just before lawmakers return to Washington for the new Congress next year. TIGTA officials told lawmakers on Friday about the discovery of the missing emails, but congressional aides said it could take some weeks before the emails are sorted and in shape to examine. The emails must be decrypted and in some cases must be redacted to remove taxpayer-identifying information, aides said.
- Bloomberg: Some Missing Lois Lerner E-Mails May Have Been Found, Panel Says
- Breitbart: Surprise, 30,000 Lois Lerner IRS Emails Discovered Late Friday Afternoon
- Daily Caller: 30,000 Lois Lerner Emails Recovered
- The Hill: Senators: Lerner Emails Might Have Been Found
- Legal Insurrection: IRS Finds 30,000 Lerner Emails Days After “Threat” of Buggy Whipping, by William Jacobson (Cornell)
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