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IRS Reveals More Crashed Computers With At Least One Thing In Common: Lois Lerner

July 21, 2014 by Ben Bullard

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That fatal computer flu that did in Lois Lerner’s hard drive must have been nasty contagious.

The IRS told a Congressional panel last week that several more previously-undisclosed instances of “computer problems” had afflicted the devices of IRS employees who had regular interoffice communications with Lerner.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a portion of the transcript from testimony it received last week from IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Tom Kane, who told the panel that other IRS employees – “less than 20” in his words – had also experienced computer crashes.

That new group of unfortunates includes people like Lerner advisor David Fish, IRS Cincinnati field office employee Kimberly Kitchens, and IRS Exempt Organizations employee Andy Megosh. Lerner was the head of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit until May of 2013, when she was placed on administrative leave after revealing that the agency had used bureaucratic stonewalling tactics to discriminate against conservative nonprofit groups during President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign.

The House of Representatives found Lerner in Contempt of Congress in May of this year over her refusal to testify about her alleged role in the scandal.

Kitchens, you may recall, was among many Obama donors/IRS employees who spent more than twice as much of their personal funds on Obama’s reelection campaign than on that of his Republican opponent in 2012, Mitt Romney.

Kane also told the Oversight Committee last week that it’s possible that backup tape drives housing some of the “lost” email data may, in fact, still be around somewhere – even though it’s agency policy to overwrite the backups after six months.

At any rate, these computer-death coincidences are becoming remarkable indeed. So take us out, Remy:

H/T: Reason TV