IRS Conveniently Loses Key Lerner Emails

Today the House Committee on Ways and Means announced that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), has claimed to have “lost” three years of emails from disgraced official Lois Lerner due to a computer glitch. Conveniently, the misplaced emails are from the same time period when targeting of conservative and tea party groups was occurring under Lerner’s watch.  American Encore President Sean Noble offered the following on the matter:

“The Obama administration promised to be the most transparent administration in history, little did we know this would mean they could make things disappear entirely. Given the convenient details of the misplaced emails this is clearly not a computer problem, as the IRS claims. This is a fundamental failure of leadership at the highest levels and a betrayal of the nation’s trust. ‘It’s a glitch’ may as well be the 21^st Century version of ‘I’m not a crook.’”