Our Out-of-Control IRS: What Really Happened to Lost Tea Party Emails?

It is difficult to believe.

In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Thursday, the Treasury Inspector General (IG) for Tax Administration is expected to reveal that IRS employees destroyed critical evidence during an investigation of the agency’s unlawful targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups.

According to Fox News, critical evidence was destroyed during the investigation into the IRS targeting scandal, months after the agency was told to preserve documents. According to the IG, as many as 24,000 emails were lost because 422 backup tapes were erased.

And in his prepared testimony, J. Russell George says those tapes “most likely” contained emails to and from former IRS top official Lois Lerner, who is at the center of this targeting scandal. . . .

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