After the IRS has testified before Congress and provided written testimony to two different federal district courts a DOJ lawyer representing the IRS states that all government electronic documents are backed on secure servers but that it would be too much trouble to retrieve them. No mention was made of the all-encompassing backup system in testimony filed in Judge Emmet Sullivan's court. Judge Reggie Walton who is hearing the True the Vote case was sold the same bill of goods. One suspects the IRS is about to regret that omission. No federal agency needs two federal judges angry with it at the same time.
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch:
'So everything we've been hearing about scratched hard drives, about missing emails of Lois Lerner, [and] other IRS officials, other officials in the Obama administration,' Fitton told Fox, 'it's all been a pack of malarkey.'
'They could get these records, but they don't want to. And they haven't told anyone about it, frankly, until we were able to get it out of them on Friday.'
'And there's no such thing as Lois Lerner's missing e-mails,' he insisted. 'It's all been a big lie. They've been lying to the courts, to the American people and to Congress.'
If the Republicans regain the Senate, as it appears they will, you would not want to be IRS Director John Koskinen or FBI Director James Comey. Republicans will name House-Senate joint committee to investigate the IRS and Comey will have to explain his supposedly independent agency's lack of action not only in the IRS matter but also in the cases of destroyed data at the EPA, the FEC, and the HHS.
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