IRS Targeting Scandal: 30K Lost Emails Found in Backup Recovery Files

Posted by Tina

Remember those lost Lois Lerner emails, lost “forever” because of a scratched hard drive? Not so Fast! Even though later efforts to retrieve them were met with excuses that hard drives were routinely destroyed en mass there were back up tapes. Those records wee not retrievable because it would be too much trouble. The story didn’t really jibe since so much of what government does is stored as part of the official record.What good are non-retrievable records..why bother? Turns out some 30, 000 Lerner emails have been retrieved through forensics…we just have to wait till they’re translated to English to see what’s in them:

Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit recounts the conservative groups and people targeted as well as one unsavory group that was more casually granted 501c4 status. first the conservatives:

At least 5 pro-Israel groups
Constitutional groups
Groups that criticized Obama administration
At least two pro-life groups
An 83 year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor
A 180 year-old Baptist paper
A Texas voting-rights group
A Hollywood conservative group was targeted and harassed
Conservative activists and businesses
At least one conservative Hispanic group

The tawdry group that was given tax exempt status, apparently without much scrutiny, was the “Royal Order of Jesters,” a “prostitution ring,” whose headquarters the IRS classified as a “museum.” This organization was engaged in the “service oriented” work of “trafficking in underage children.”

Good call Lerner!

The investigation continues.