{"id":21459,"date":"2014-09-10T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T23:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21459"},"modified":"2014-09-10T19:14:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T23:14:12","slug":"irs-re-lost-emails-oops-we-did-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21459\/irs-re-lost-emails-oops-we-did-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS re Lost Emails: Oops, We Did It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration has a penchant for releasing damaging disclosures on Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent example was last Friday\u2019s admission by the IRS that \u2013 in addition to losing potentially incriminating emails from Lois Lerner\u2019s account \u2013 it also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/09\/06\/irs-says-it-has-lost-emails-from-5-other-employees-related-to-probe\/ \" target=\"_blank\">can\u2019t find emails from five other employees connected to the conservative targeting scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the five worked in the agency\u2019s Cincinnati office where most of the bad behavior took place. The others include Lerner\u2019s technical adviser, a group manager in the tax-exempt division and a tax law specialist, reports Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS says all five permanently lost access to emails sought by congressional investigators when their hard drives crashed. The agency\u2019s Inspector General is testing the drives to see if any emails can still be recovered.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress are not amused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IRS\u2019s ever-changing story is practically impossible to follow at this point, as they modify it each time to accommodate new facts,\u201d Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said. \u201cThis pattern must stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More likely it will continue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Obama administration has a penchant for releasing damaging disclosures on Fridays. The most recent example was last Friday\u2019s admission by the IRS that \u2013 in addition to losing potentially incriminating emails from Lois Lerner\u2019s account \u2013 it also can\u2019t find emails from five other employees connected to the conservative targeting scandal. Two of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[351,4584,735,4153,2502],"class_list":["post-21459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-corruption","tag-email","tag-irs","tag-lois-lerner","tag-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21463,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21459\/revisions\/21463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}