Ooopsie. Gosh, Congress, Obama’s administration is really sorry, but it has “accidentally” erased thousands of emails that might have proved that it had illegally used the force of the IRS to attack and harass groups that oppose Obama’s policies.
So, as soon as Congress pegged Obama for his illegal actions, his IRS goes around destroying the evidence.
Investigators are blaming mistakes by IRS employees — not a criminal conspiracy — for the loss of thousands of emails related to the tax agency’s tea party scandal.
IRS workers erased 422 computer backup tapes that “most likely” contained as many as 24,000 emails to and from former IRS official Lois Lerner, who has emerged as a central figure in congressional investigations, according to IRS’s inspector general.
The workers erased the tapes a month after IRS officials discovered that an untold number of Lerner’s emails were lost. The IG says the workers were unaware of a year-old directive not to destroy email backup tapes.
J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, is scheduled to testify Thursday before the House Oversight Committee about his investigation into the emails. The Associated Press obtained a copy of his prepared testimony.
Just another example of Obama’s criminal government.