THIS MODERN TECHNOLOGY, IT'S SO CONFUSING – AT 10:40 A.M. ET:   Remember Lois Lerner, the IRS lady?  She's back in the news.  From the Washington Times: 

The IRS’s inspector general confirmed Thursday it is conducting a criminal investigation into how Lois G. Lerner’s emails disappeared, saying it took only two weeks for investigators to find hundreds of tapes the agency’s chief had told Congress were irretrievably destroyed.

Investigators have already scoured 744 backup tapes and gleaned 32,774 unique emails, but just two weeks ago they found an additional 424 tapes that could contain even more Lerner emails, Deputy Inspector General Timothy P. Camus told the House Oversight Committee in a rare late-night hearing meant to look into the status of the investigation.

“There is potential criminal activity,” Mr. Camus said.

He said they have also discovered the hard drives from the IRS’s email servers, but said because the drives are out of synch it’s not clear whether they will be able to recover anything from them.

“To date we have found 32,744 unique emails that were backed up from Lois Lerner’s email box. We are in the process of comparing these emails to what the IRS has already produced to Congress to determine if we did in fact recover any new emails,” Mr. Camus said.

Democrats questioned the independence of Inspector General J. Russell George, who is overseeing the investigation, saying he’s injected politics into his work.

COMMENT:  Of course.  Politics, as in "the truth."   This new phase of the investigation into the IRS is building just as the 2016 race is getting started.  It can turn out to be an important issue, especially if more evidence emerges that Lois Lerner and her band of brothers and sisters targeted conservative groups for special attention. 

Hillary Clinton could not be reached for comment.  She'll probably blame it on a YouTube video.

February 27, 2015