DOJ Lawyer Says Govt. Emails Are Backed Up Nightly, Calls IRS Claim They (Lois Lerner's) Were Deleted 'Laughable'

The Right Scoop
Posted on Jun 15, 2014 at 10:00 PM in Featured Politics
By soopermexican

Not that there was any doubt, but a Department of Justice lawyer has anonymouslycontacted Powerline Blog to say why the IRS claim about losing emails because of a computer crash is “laughable”:

I’m a DOJ lawyer, so you obviously cannot use my name or any identifying information. But the idea that a “hard drive crash” somehow destroyed all of Ms. Lerner’s intra-government email correspondence during the period in question [2009-2011] is laughable. Government email servers are backed up every night. So if she actually had a hard drive fail, her emails would be recoverable from the backup. If the backup was somehow also compromised, then we are talking about a conspiracy.

Keep up the good work.

He reiterates in a postscript:

I’m serious about your keeping any identifying information out of the media. Things are very, very bad.

When the story broke on Friday, I really believed this administration was insane to think the story wouldn’t hit the headlines. But if you look at the Sunday morning news shows, not one featured the outrageous stonewalling by the IRS. Let’s hope our political leaders have the courage to pursue this outrageous abuse of power.

Thank You soopermexican and Right Scoop.

see also WZ for;

White House Dismisses Furor Over IRS Losing Lois Lerner's Emails As 'Far Fetched' And A Conspiracy Theory.