what s your policy? well the irs commissioner faces another grilling by congress next week over the agency s targeting of conservative groups this is after e-mails to and from lois lerner the former official at the center of the scandal were lost quote unquote in a computer crash. we have a staff writer from the washington free beacon and the irs has known about this since february but just released it on friday. always good to dump news on the friday when it will get lost over the weekend. that is what the republicans are so mad about. they were not told they were permanently lost for over a year. no one mentioned they were lost.
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president s political rhetoric drove the national dialogue and shaped public opinions. i.r.s. received and responded to the political stimuli. the commissioner will testimony about lois lerner s missing emails. agency claims they vanished because of a computer crash. one expert said that s highly unlikely. in a large organization such as the i.r.s., it s extremely unlikely for the data losses to occur. we need to pay attention to this because when you re actually going through a computer loss, when data is being lost, there should be an incident trail that actually shows what actually occurred and the steps taken in order to actually see if they could recover that data. if that didn t occur, then there s some major problems we have here. senator hatch saying he thinks obama administration will go so far as to purposely delete those emails. okay. this was not just one i.t. expert that was saying that it s impossible for these emails to
could be done, would be done, and they had the emails. now, there was a paper record. we just saw a piece of it, from lerner herself, attesting to the fact there had been this computer crash. commissioner didn t seem to know about that or didn t say anything about that. they are bringing him back. i question how much they are going to get out of that guy. so politically, i mean, obviously, we followed this from the beginning, where does this sit? the most telling thing we ve heard today was harry reid saying not oh, the republicans are off on one of their crazy tangents again. he was saying that senator hatch and his republican counterpart are looking into this. that tell you a lot. harry reid isn t saying this isn t all a wild-goose chase, then you know something is up. forensically a lot of people
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