Obama Lies On Lois Lerner Emails. There Are Copies!

IRS Admits That Lois Lerner Emails Were Never Lost

 Posted 08/27/2014 06:42 PM ET

Scandal: Talk of crashed and recycled hard drives, like that Benghazi video, was a distraction from the truth, which is that the missing emails detailing IRS perfidy exist on a system intended for government wide catastrophe.

It would make sense that such a system would exist in the event that, say, the Islamic State or some other terrorist entity managed a nuclear attack on Washington D.C.

In fact, such a system does exist and contains copies of not only Lois Lerner's missing IRS emails detailing the agency's illegal and unconstitutional activity, but also the entire inventory of government files and data — and the IRS knew it all this time.

We have documented how IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has repeatedly lied before Congress, changing his story multiple times. He consistently implied that the Lerner emails didn't exist or were lost when her hard drive and those of others crashed, and then were destroyed and recycled.

All of this could have been bypassed had the IRS just told Congress and the American people what Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton says the IRS told him and his group last week, which is, as stated in a Judicial Watch press release, that "Lois Lerner's emails, indeed all government computer records, are backed up by the federal government in case of a government wide catastrophe."

Judicial Watch also says the IRS claims the system "would be too onerous to search."

This is an awfully lame excuse from an administration whose NSA was scooping up records of every communication made by American citizens and even foreign leaders, then allegedly mining the data in search of connectable dots.

The IRS now is claiming that it never hid this backup system's existence and that investigators such as Rep. Darrell Issa, head of the House Oversight Committee, merely misunderstood when the likes of Koskinen testified that IRS emails "get taken off and stored in servers."

The fact is that the IRS wouldn't be saying anything had not U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan gotten tired of IRS obfuscation in the face of Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuits. He ordered the IRS to give a believable explanation to his court under oath and penalty of perjury.

Sullivan, probably not amused by the snarky testimony of Koskinen before Congress, ordered the IRS to produce sworn declarations about the lost emails and what might have happened to them. The Clinton appointee sought a step-by-step explanation of the alleged hard-drive destruction, including how it was authorized and why. He should also look closely into the destruction of Lerner's BlackBerry, which was intentionally dismantled after Congress began investigating the IRS.

In any event, the Lerner emails exist and, as Fitton explains, the "Obama administration has known all along where the missing emails could be — and dishonestly withheld this information." What once was dismissed by the White House as the stuff of conspiracy theorists has now been exposed as reality. Can there be any doubt that the IRS used its power to tax in an attempt to destroy President Obama's political opposition, namely the Tea Party? This does indeed make the Watergate break-in look like a third-rate burglary.

We have written about how the allegedly lost Lerner emails mirrored the famous 18-1/2 minute gap on the tape that helped bring down the Nixon presidency. The second article of impeachment against President Nixon was that he only sought to use the IRS to punish his political enemies. The Obama administration has already used the IRS for that purpose.

Unlike the missing passages of the Watergate tape, we now know where the Lerner emails are and we can close the gap between administration lies and the truth. There is no excuse not to go get them and bring an end to this abuse of power that has threatened our constitutional republic.