Lerner warned IRS workers about 'what we say in e-mails'

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Not even a smidgen of corruption.

WASHINGTON — Former IRS official Lois Lerner cautioned her colleagues last year to be careful about what they put in e-mails because Congress might request them, according to newly disclosed e-mails.

Lerner, the official at the center of investigations into IRS targeting of political groups, also went so far as to ask an information technology staffer whether internal instant messages could be searched and retrieved in response to a congressional request. When the employee informed her that those messages were not automatically saved, Lerner responded with a one-word e-mail: "Perfect."

Lerner's caution about e-mail came in April 2013, two weeks after Treasury inspectors delivered a draft report finding that the IRS used inappropriate criteria to screen applications for tax exemptions by Tea Party groups. She has since resigned, and the Republican-led House of Representatives has held her in contempt for refusing to fully testify about the IRS handling of conservative groups.

At a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on Wednesday, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said he had no knowledge of the e-mail, which was turned over to congressional committees as part of their investigations.

Republicans on the committee said the e-mails proved that Lerner was deliberately trying to hide information from Congress. "We know Ms. Lerner is not being square with the American people," said Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.

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This is classic. Our 'ruling elite' is irony-proof.

IRS Commissioner: Nothing Odd About Lois Lerner Asking if Instant Messages Are 'Searchable' IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifed before a subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. During one exchange with Rep. Jim Jordan, Koskinen seemed to find nothing at all suspicious about Lois Lerner's interest in whether IRS instant messages were "searchable" and could be turned over to Congress.

Rep. Jordan: [Lerner] says "perfect" when she learns that it is not traceable, not trackable, not stored...What I want to know is, why did it take us this long to get these emails? We've been after these for 6 months and you dump them on us on July 3rd. Have you ever seen this email...have you ever seen this stuff before.

Commissioner Koskinen: No, and I don't see anything in here where Lois Lerner says "wow, I got rid of my earlier emails and now I got to check on these."

Jordan: I'm not saying...I'm focusing on the pattern. I'm focusing on the pattern.

Koskinen: I'm sorry you said for the record that Lois Lerner had written...

Jordan: No I didn't I said Dave Camp sent her a letter and 10 days later her computer mysteriously crashes and 7 other important people at the IRS. And then I'm saying here's the pattern again. She learns that there's...the Inspector General is going to issue a report that says the IRS was in fact targeting conservative groups and now 12 days after that she says we better make sure this OCS system doesn't track anything is not traceable and Congress, and more importantly the American people, can't get access to what we were talking about.

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Baaa just another made up scandal from the Tea Party. nothing to see here. Bush did it to. Face Palm graphic... ETC ETC