Hard Drive Ebola Strikes 5 More IRS Computers

IRS Says it has lost emails from 5 more employees

The Internal Revenue Service has lost emails from five more employees who are part of congressional probes into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, the tax service disclosed Friday.

The IRS said in June that it could not locate an untold number of emails to and from Lois Lerner, who headed the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. The revelation set off a new round of investigations and congressional hearings.

On Friday, the IRS issued a report to Congress saying the agency also lost emails from five other employees related to the probe, including two agents who worked in a Cincinnati office processing applications for tax-exempt status.

The disclosure came on the same day the Senate's subcommittee on investigations released competing reports on how the IRS handled applications from political groups during the 2010 and 2012 elections.

Now, we know that all the traffic in and out of government servers is backed up for restoration of the monarchy government after a catastrophic event.  So what they're really saying is the original machines now longer exist, and it's really a lot of trouble to use a database to look up which tapes would cover the people and times in question, and search them from responsive item. Especially when the results of said action are likely to find unpleasant facts about how the IRS abused conservatives.

This prompts Instapudit to quip: OH, SCREW THIS. JUST START BEHEADING PEOPLE. Starting with Lois Lerner.