[RealJustme]

That didn't set well with one Federal Judge.

Another federal judge tells IRS to explain itself on lost emails. IRS attorneys will be even busier than normal next week, because another federal judge has told them to show up in court July 11 to defend the federal tax agency.

They will have to explain to U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton why the IRS shouldn't be required to let an outside expert evaluate whether emails on the computer hard drives of former IRS official Lois Lerner and six colleagues really are lost forever, as the agency recently told Congress.

The government told Walton on Monday night he should dismiss the motion for an outside digital forensics expert and threatened to take it to the next higher level if Judge Walton didn't. “If the IRS’s public statements about ‘recycling’ Ms. Lerner’s hard drive are true, that alone establishes spoliation of evidence that violates federal statutes and regulations, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, and professional ethics and responsibility. In any case there is no reason for the IRS to refuse my motion to allow an outside digital forensics expert to look at the IRS's evidence and provide me an opinion."

[johnforbes]

The issue of spoliation would be taken for granted in any area with access to sane lawyers.

But the IRS has clearly lied about all this.

Lerner's emails didn't reside on her hard drive any more than mine did in April when I got a new computer. The old hard drive is simply sitting, for now, in the computer. The IRS tale about how Lerner's emails were "lost" didn't make a lick of sense.

[Grog]

I agree. It doesn't make a lick of sense. It doesn't have to. So far Chairman Issa is 0 for 3,592,148 at a cost of probably close to $1 billion in taxpayer dollars, Republican taxpayer dollars.

The farcical "lost email" story is a bone to you guys. It's a taunt. If you guys can't shred it, well, then, you must be... really dumb.

[johnforbes]

The issue of spoliation would be taken for granted in any area with access to sane lawyers.

But the IRS has clearly lied about all this.

Lerner's emails didn't reside on her hard drive any more than mine did in April when I got a new computer. The old hard drive is simply sitting, for now, in the computer. The IRS tale about how Lerner's emails were "lost" didn't make a lick of sense.

[Grog]

He has nothing to say, so Forbes once again C&P's his first C&P in the hope that JustFreedManMe will take notice and something more might develop from their "conversation."

Shhhh. Let's watch as...

[johnforbes]

The issue of spoliation would be taken for granted in any area with access to sane lawyers.

But the IRS has clearly lied about all this.

Lerner's emails didn't reside on her hard drive any more than mine did in April when I got a new computer. The old hard drive is simply sitting, for now, in the computer. The IRS tale about how Lerner's emails were "lost" didn't make a lick of sense.

[Grog]

Told ya! :lol:

[johnforbes]

My hard drive crashed, so I lost Grog's email.

Still, the issue of spoliation would be taken for granted in any area with access to sane lawyers.

But the IRS has clearly lied about all this.

Lerner's emails didn't reside on her hard drive any more than mine did in April when I got a new computer. The old hard drive is simply sitting, for now, in the computer. The IRS tale about how Lerner's emails were "lost" didn't make a lick of sense.