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Sunday, August 17, 2014

The IRS Scandal, Day 465

IRS Logo 2Bloomberg: Federal Judge Wants Answers From the IRS on Missing E-mails:

A federal judge signaled that he doesn’t believe the Internal Revenue Service did all it could to unearth the missing e-mails at the heart of a Congressional investigation into the agency’s treatment of Tea Party organizations.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan late yesterday asked the IRS for a list of steps it took to retrieve e-mails of Lois Lerner, who was the official in charge of determining whether the antitax Tea Party groups could qualify for nonprofit status. The IRS has said a crash of her hard drive wiped out e-mails from 2009 to 2011.

Sullivan, appointed to the court by former President Bill Clinton in 1994, gave the IRS until next week to answer several questions about how it decided the e-mails were beyond recovery. Among them, he asked the agency whether it sought e-mails from alternate sources, such as a BlackBerry, iPhone, or iPad; to explain how it tracks computer parts when they’re serviced or taken out of use; and to provide a statement from an outside vendor “who can verify the IRS’ destruction policies concerning hard drives.”

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