REVEALED: DOJ Shut Down Their Search for Lois Lerner’s Emails and the IRS Never Even Looked at All

by Greg Campbell | March 3, 2015 8:27 pm

When it comes to the IRS scandal and the militant partisanship of Obama’s ironically-named Department of Justice, few revelations surprise me anymore. Operating with the ruthless corruption of the Soviet-era politburo, the Obama Administration has been mired in scandal from the get-go and Allen West details[1] the latest revelation[2] that is sure to outrage many: the IRS never even looked for Lois Lerner’s emails and the DOJ halted any other efforts to find them.

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The Obama administration’s Department of Justice shut down an attempt to force the Internal Revenue Service to search for Lois Lerner’s missing emails at off-site storage facilities.

The IRS never looked for Lerner’s backup email tapes at the West Virginia storage facility where they were being housed. Treasury deputy inspector general Timothy Camus told Congress that the IRS never asked IT professionals at the New Martinsville, W.V. storage site for the backup tapes. Camus only found the backup tape for Lerner’s missing 2011 emails about two weeks ago.

But the Obama administration knew that emails were stored at off-site facilities, and even shut down a legal request to send somebody to go look for them.

“We said in court that there are off-site servers where all IRS emails are stored,” lawyer Cleta Mitchell told The Daily Caller. Mitchell represents the voter-ID group True the Vote in its lawsuit against the IRS over improper targeting. Shortly after it was revealed last summer that the IRS was missing Lerner’s emails, Mitchell petitioned U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton for an independent forensic examiner to be appointed to investigate the missing emails.

Mitchell referred to the IRS’ off-site storage facilities in West Virginia and Pittsburgh in her July court documents. But DOJ lawyers representing the IRS and the Treasury inspector general argued that Mitchell could not even discuss the existence of the storage facilities in her capacity as a lawyer.

Remember when Obama promised an unprecedented level of transparency? Nixon was an open book comparatively…

Endnotes:
  1. Allen West details: http://allenwestrepublic.com/2015/03/02/revealed-doj-shut-down-search-for-lois-lerners-emails-and-irs-never-looked-at-all/
  2. revelation: http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/02/exposed-department-of-justice-shut-down-search-for-lois-lerners-emails/
  3. [Image]: https://rightwingnews1.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ZHolder-e1425432357123.jpg

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