Considering her former role as chief of the IRS’ tax exempt division, and its proximity to the targeting scandal, the decision to wipe her phone after investigators started asking questions is both suspicious and troubling.
The phone being cleaned out is in addition to Lerner invoking her *Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination — prompting Congress to vote in May to hold her in contempt — and on top of the fact that thousands of subpoenaed emails have gone missing. On Friday, the Associated Press reported that, “The IRS says it has lost emails from five more workers who are part of congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups that applied for tax exempt status.”
Multiple news outlets, including the Washington Examiner, have unsuccessfully pressed IRS officials for answers on Lerner’s Blackberry.
“I’m not aware,” an IRS spokesman told the Examiner Friday. “I’m going to have to get back to you on that… Uh, let me see if there’s anything I can get for you on that.”
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