returns to congress to testify, again, pleading the fifth throughout the hearing. i respectfully exercise my fifth amendment right and decline to answer that question. the next day, the irs promises it will release all of lerner s emails, even though they were aware of the hard drive crash months earlier. and then on june 13th, the irs finally informs the house of representatives that they have lost lois lerner s emails from january of 2009 to april of 2011 you can t keep six months worth of employee emails? one senate investigation, one justice department investigation, and four irs commissioners later, the search for answers continues. wow. so are americans buying the claim that crucial emails simply vanished? let s take a look at fox news poll this week. 76% of those surveyed believe the missing emails
it is suspicious. when we uncovered it, we pursued evidence to try to figure out what happened. we found a train of e-mails that the congress has had for some time that noted that they worked extraordinarily hard to try to recover those e-mails. we also know that the crash occurred in june but we have e-mails from april of 2011. so it was clear that people weren t wiping out e-mails and we were able to find 24,000 e-mails from this period. so they all have not been lost. but the u.s. archivist who testified before the hill, you saw him probably testify, he said the irs in his words did not follow the law in preserving documents as required by the statute for public and official records. so someone broke the law. the irs is run antiquated response to the records act which everyone treats seriously because of the e-mail system. official records and communications are printed out in hard copies. all of the information about taxpayers and their files are
. a developing tonight, congressional leaders investigating abuses at the irs are stunned and demanding immediate investigations after the irs has just announced that a quote computer glitch vaporized an untold number of e-mails sent to and from none other than lois lerner, the woman at the heart of the controversy who said her fifth amendment rights when questioned by congress. katy is a news editor and fox news contributor. they fought and taught and fought and didn t want to produce and now they suddenly, yeah, they were destroyed. yeah, megyn, today the irs told the house weighs and means committee and dave camp they don t have two years worth of lois lerner e-mails from jan 2009 to april of 2011. now here is the key here. the irs says they can produce all the e-mails requested from lois lerner to irs employ yeses
accusing the internal revenue service of, quote, playing games. but the irs says it has already and is in the process of producing more than 67,000 e-mails from the account of lois lerner who, as you know, headed the irs division that processed applications for tax exempt status. the agency says there are a number of untold e-mails sent and received by lerner, which may be lost due to a computer crash. in a letter to congress on friday, irs officials say some of lerner s e-mails between january of 09 and april of 2011 had been wiped out years ago writing in part, in the course of collecting and producing ms. lerner s e-mails, the irs determined her hard drive crashed in 2011. at the time, ms. lerner asked irs i.t. professionals to restore her hard drive, but they were unable to do so. orrin hatch has trouble the agency didn t notify congress when they first became aware of the problem. and there are others sounding off saying lawmakers should not take the agency at its word. first o
years worth of lois lerner emails. oh, my god. they don t lose anything. the time period that they lost them, between january 2009 and april of 2011. do you believe it? what was going on then? maybe there was something about targeting of conservatives. they don t lose anything. this is a joke. this is just actually, it s kind of disgusting. instead of pleading the fifth, they have now pled ignorance and incompetence. heavy duty shredder in there. i think you are being terribly terribly unfair. look, you had a computer crash with obamacare, maybe they need to change computer people. people are there s already a feeling of anger across the country about the government incompetence, but this one do you think it will pass muster.