{"id":458,"date":"2014-08-27T09:04:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=458"},"modified":"2014-08-27T09:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T14:05:05","slug":"lois-lerner-and-the-missing-e-mail-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=458","title":{"rendered":"Lois Lerner and the Missing E-Mail Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The whole Lois Lerner and the missing e-mails has played out like a drama, tragedy, or comedy depending on one&#8217;s views.\u00a0 But however your view, its something that changes every time its in the news.\u00a0 This entire mini-episode of the larger IRS scandal has encountered a new development.<\/p>\n<p>First, let&#8217;s recall a quick history.\u00a0 Lerner&#8217;s e-mails were subpoenaed now almost two years ago.\u00a0 The IRS dragged its feet, as many government agencies do.\u00a0 Many believed these e-mails were key to any investigation on IRS attacks on conservative groups.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lerner herself pleaded the 5th when appearing before Congress, only after making a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Then things got interesting with the e-mails.\u00a0 The IRS finally, earlier this year came forth saying they had lost the e-mails.\u00a0 Naturally the question was how?\u00a0 We were told Lerner&#8217;s laptop computer crashed and destroyed the e-mails.<\/p>\n<p>But what about backups?\u00a0 What about her blackberry?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, a single scratch on Lerner&#8217;s hard drive was all it took to erase all of her e-mails, or at least the e-mails which were subpoenaed.\u00a0 Making matters worse, the IRS commissioner knew the e-mails were missing about a month or two before he finally told Congress, and had appeared before them saying they were still looking for them, a blatant lie.<\/p>\n<p>Now, according to government watchdog group, Judicial Watch&#8217;s lawyer, the IRS has Lerner&#8217;s e-mails.\u00a0 It seems the IRS has the backups, but now the excuse is it would take too much time to recover said e-mails.<\/p>\n<p>The IRS has been lying to the American people all this time.\u00a0 The more they lie, the more I believe something is going on.\u00a0 Liberals, its a shame you&#8217;re massive intellect is wasted here supporting a lie.\u00a0 If the IRS had targeted a lot of liberal groups, you would have seen this on the front page of every paper.<\/p>\n<p>Its time we learn the truth about what went on, if it was selective targeting or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whole Lois Lerner and the missing e-mails has played out like a drama, tragedy, or comedy depending on one&#8217;s views.\u00a0 But however your view, its something that changes every time its in the news.\u00a0 This entire mini-episode of the larger IRS scandal has encountered a new development. First, let&#8217;s recall a quick history.\u00a0 Lerner&#8217;s [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=458\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,21],"tags":[503,31,29,36,35,32],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals","category-politics","category-united-states","tag-backup","tag-e-mails","tag-irs","tag-lerner","tag-lois","tag-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}