WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigators are blaming mistakes by IRS employees — not a criminal conspiracy — for the loss of thousands of emails related to the tax agency's tea party scandal.
IRS workers erased 422 computer backup tapes that "most likely" contained as many as 24,000 emails to and from former IRS official Lois Lerner, who has emerged as a central figure in congressional investigations, according to IRS's inspector general.
The workers erased the tapes a month after IRS officials discovered that an untold number of Lerner's emails were lost. The IG says the workers were unaware of a year-old directive not to destroy email backup tapes.
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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150625/us--irs-lost_emails-47ff44b9ff.htmlIt's really rather disappointing to see the IRS lawyer up and slow walk these responses to judicial orders. They'd collect a lot more tax revenue if they set a model of being honest in their behavior.
Say that this behavior was displayed by a store down the street who seemed to have treated some people wrong and it wound up in legal actions.
Would you do business with them?
