Investigators confirmed they have recovered 32,000 emails related to Lois Lerner, the former IRS official at the heart of the agency’s scandal targeting conservative groups. The Associated Press,
“The emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last June, the IRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner’s emails when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011.
At the time, IRS officials said the emails could not be recovered. But at a congressional hearing Thursday evening, investigators said they recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up the agency’s email system…
The IRS says it has already produced 78,000 Lerner emails, many of which have been made public by congressional investigators…
Several Oversight Committee members questioned how hard the IRS tried to produce the emails, given how quickly independent investigators found them.”
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