Unbelievable: The IRS Claims to Have Lost Lois Lerner EmailsLily Dane From the AP: The IRS said Lois Lerners computer crashed in 2011, wiping out an untold number of emails that were being sought by congressional investigators. The investigators want to see all of Lerners emails from 2009 to 2013 as part of their probe into the way agents handled applications for tax-exempt status by tea party and other conservative groups. The IRS has been very resistant to providing any emails or documents related to the scandal. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton explained the implications of the new information: These new documents show that officials in the IRS headquarters were responsible for the illegal delays of Tea Party applications. It is disturbing to see Lois Lerner mislead the IRS internal investigators about her offices Tea Party targeting. These documents also confirm the unprecedented pressure from congressional Democrats to go after President Obamas political opponents. The IRS scandal has now ensnared Congress. Do they really expect the American people to believe that, after having withheld these emails for a year, theyre just now realizing the most critical time period is missing? If there wasnt nefarious conduct that went much higher than Lois Lerner in the IRS targeting scandal, why are they playing these games? The emails are being sought in order to determine if anyone outside of the IRS was involved in the scandal. Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, echoed Issas sentiments about the emails: The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS response to congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the inspector general. The IRS claimed to have gone to great lengths to try to recover data from Lerners computer in 2011. The AP explains: In emails provided by the IRS, technicians said they sent the computer to a forensic lab run by the agencys criminal investigations unit. But to no avail. The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 82 other IRS employees. But an untold number are gone. Camps office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices. Anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist called the episode the worst attempt to blame technology in service of a cover-up since the infamous 18-minute gap in former President Richard Nixons Watergate tapes. But theres not even a smidgen of corruption at the IRS, right? Lily Dane is a staff writer for The Daily Sheeple, where this first appeared. Her goal is to help people to Wake the Flock Up! 