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Saturday, June 14, 2014

Did The IRS Really Lose Lois Lerner's Emails? Let a Special Prosecutor Find Them

A sloppy mistake, the government calls it, but you couldn't blame a person for suspecting a cover-up -- the loss of an untold number of emails to and from the central figure in the IRS tea party controversy. And, because the public's trust is a fragile gift that the White House has frittered away in a series of second-term missteps, President Obama needs to act.

If the IRS can't find the emails, maybe a special prosecutor can.

The announcement came late Friday, a too-cute-by-half cliche of a PR strategy to mitigate backlash. "The IRS told Congress it cannot locate many of Lois Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year," The Associated Press reported.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just check with the NSA. Im sure they can pull up a copy.

Anonymous said...

Proof positive that the NSA is grossly overrated.If they were the threat that we have been led to believe they would have those e-mails,like they supposedly have all of ours.

Anonymous said...

Like SNL church lady use to say "How convenient"