IRS "Loses" Six More Officials' Emails: It's Time For a Special Prosecutor.

Last week, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) informed the House of Representatives’ Committee on Ways and Means that they had “lost” three years worth of emails from Lois Lerner, the disgraced IRS official at the center of the scandal involving the IRS targeting of conservative and tea party groups, because her computer crashed.  Naturally, many were skeptical of the claim given its questionable convenience. 

Many also arrived at the logical conclusion that if the IRS had actually “lost” Lerner’s emails, then surely they would be able to recover them from the emails of other officials at the IRS that she was communicating with. Yet, today the IRS announced that it has also “lost” the emails of six other high-level officials at the center of the investigation into the suppression of conservative groups by the agency. American Encore President Sean Noble offered the following statement on the matter:

“These types of overly convenient and lame excuses are generally reserved for guilty adolescents and banana republics. It’s clear that the administration has moved from obstructing the activity of conservative and tea party groups to stonewalling Congress by whatever means necessary. It’s time the American people demand a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS from top to bottom. We cannot count on such a deceitful administration to police itself.”