Despite the sworn testimony of IRS commissioner John Koskinen that backup tapes are recycled after 6 months, backup tapes containing up to 30,000 e-mails from Lois Lerner’s “crashed” computer have been uncovered by the U.S. Treasury inspector general for tax administration (TIGTA).  The Washington Examiner reports that TIGTA … informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system. “They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes,” a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner. (snip) The missing emails extend from 2009 to 2011, a period when Lerner headed the IRS’s exempt-organizations division. The emails were lost when Lerner’s computer crashed, IRS officials said earlier this year. Recall that earlier this month,...(Read Full Post)