The head of the IRS confirmed Wednesday that investigators looking into missing emails from ex-agency official Lois Lerner have found and are reviewing “backup tapes” — despite earlier IRS claims that the tapes had been recycled.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, testifying before a House oversight subcommittee, stressed that he does not know “how they found them” or “whether there’s anything on them or not.” But he said the inspector general’s office advised him they are reviewing tapes to see if they contain any “recoverable” material.
The revelation is significant because the IRS claimed, when the agency first told Congress about the missing emails, that backup tapes “no longer exist because they have been recycled.”
It is unclear whether the tapes in IG custody contain any Lerner emails, but Koskinen said investigators are now checking.
1. There truly will be something incriminating on those tapes. 2. Congress will find its backbone and start indictments. 3. Those indictments will turn Koskinen's smirking into panic.
One can hope anyway, but I won't hold my breath on #2 and #3.
1. There truly will be something incriminating on those tapes. 2. Congress will find its backbone and start indictments. 3. Those indictments will turn Koskinen's smirking into panic.
One can hope anyway, but I won't hold my breath on #2 and #3.
When you are powerless you must take what they give you. So now they're reviewing these newly found tapes that they have no idea what they contain nor where they were found. The Rose Law Firm billing records fairy just dropped them in the lap of Koskinen.
We, the powerless, must wait for them to review the tapes and decide what they will surrender. Sound familiar? Sound promising? Not to me. The game is rigged against any discovery of the truth. It sounds like another stalling tactic
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