Investigators said Thursday they
have recovered 32,000 emails related to a former IRS official at the
heart of the agency's tea party scandal.
But they don't know how many of them are new.
The
emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head the IRS division
that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last June, the IRS
told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her
computer hard drive crashed in 2011.
At
the time, IRS officials said the emails could not be recovered. But at a
congressional hearing Thursday evening, investigators said they
recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up
the agency's email system.
"We
recovered quite a number of emails but until we compare those to what's
already been produced we don't know if they're new emails," Timothy
Camus, a Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, told
the House Oversight Committee.
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