OK, so we have the most powerful tax collection agency in the world, which spares no expense at getting every penny they’re owed by American taxpayers, saying that they lost a ton of emails and other data that has been subpoenaed by a Congressional committee that is looking into the targeting of conservative and other groups by the IRS.
Their claims of having “lost” emails baffles the mind. They don’t lose or misplace information, so the only logical conclusion is that the emails were deliberately deleted by political people inside the IRS who are trying to protect the Administration from another scandal.
Of all the federal agencies, this agency is well-known for its daily data backups of every digital record in its possession. The thought of anything “lost” beyond recovery at the IRS points to deliberate deletions of both the original emails, and the deletion of the data from the daily backups. Who has that kind of access at the IRS?
This is going to get a whole lot worse, especially since this is taking place in a poisoned political environment. If these emails were deleted, the responsible parties should be facing jail time. And not the poor mid-level patsy that they decide to throw under the bus to throw the bloodhounds off the scent.
And there should be criminal penalties for the IRS taking sides in political discourse, as they appear to have done. I don’t know if this behavior is already banned by law, but if it isn’t, then it should be. The IRS has no business furthering the political agenda of an Administration or a political party.
