border. william taylor says she did nothing wrong in connection with the disappearance of her e-mails. darrel issa says he is not buying it. she printed out some things, you can t printout hundreds of thousan of e-mails when it is convenient. it is an election year it is convenient to have a demon monday they can create ar point to. you cannot have print to paper which is a policy she had to know. it is hard to belief there aren t paper copies. do i believe she printed to paper? yes. she is an attorney of long standing and it is hard to belief you wouldn t cover with your own paper copy. last week chairman ice saw called for a special investigator to look into
new reaction to the irs targeting scandal. republican congressman darrell issa weighing in on those missing lois lerner e-mails and whether lawmakers will ever get to the bottom of what really happened. we ll probably never know that the drive is physically gone. what we do know from the discovery we have gotten from e-mails that we ve gotten from u multiple sources is she broke some regulations. she knew under the federal records act that she had an obligation for these e-mails to be preserved, and to not have print to paper, which is the policy that she had to know, is pretty hard to believe that there aren t paper copies. let s talk about it now with daniel helper, the online editor for the weekly standard. good to see you this sunday morning. great to see you. thank you. okay. let s look at some of those laws that congressman issa pointed out, saying that lois lerner broke and how she broke them. you know, the paperwork act is
experience. she knew under the federal records act that she had an obligation for these documents to be preserved, these e-mails and to not have print to paper, which is the policy that she had to know is pretty hard to believe that there aren t paper copies. so do i believe that she printed to paper? yes. she s an attorney of longstanding and it s kind of hard to believe that you wouldn t cover with your own paper copies. so you do believe she printed the paper and has those documents. i think her attorney already said she didn t. well her attorney has said things that are not correct, or disingenuous or outright lied a number of times, it s been shown by e-mails. an attorney trying to get his client off the hook after flubbing and taking the fifth. ultimately what we know is the archivist said that the irs failed to do what they were supposed to do with informing, failed to properly keep
had to know, is pretty hard to believe that there aren t paper copies. so do i believe that she printed to paper? yes. she s an attorney of long standing, and it s kind of hard to believe that you wouldn t cover with your own paper copies. but lois lerner s lawyer says the e-mails that can t be found now are from way before the alleged targeting, so it s their opinion that the messages are irrelevant. and the congressional complaints about missing files and broken laws amount to election politics, that s it. nobody was thinking about trying to keep anything from being discovered. she was as upset as anybody else was about the loss of the e-mails and the other documents which were on there which were quite important to her. we caught up with lois lerner s lawyer on the street today. he said the embattled former irs official is trying to put all this stuff behind her. william taylor also predicted that learner will not be prosecuted. shannon? all right, peter.
everything she thought was right, and now she s being blamed for things which aren t really even scandals. william taylor defending his client lois lerner on state of the union. this is just one of the controversies that president obama has dismissed as phony. investigators trying to track down e-mails to and from irs officials say they basically see these crashed hard drives as speed bumps. while it s not certain what may or may not have been typed out in terms of orders to targeted conservative groups, one thing is certain over the committee chairman darrell issa, lois lerner broke the law. she knew she had to preserve these e-mails and not have print to paper, which is a policy she