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On Wednesday, a senior IRS lawyer acknowledged in a sworn declaration that Lerner’s Blackberry was intentionally destroyed after Congress had begun investigating the IRS targeting of conservative groups.
Award-winning investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson was a guest on Fox News’ Lou Dobbs Tonight on Tuesday to discuss these revelations confirming the existence of Lois Lerner’s “missing” emails. She told Dobbs that the DOJ is in a potential conflict of interest with the IRS:
“The Department of Justice was representing the IRS in this phone call, basically defending the IRS in court in the civil case with Judicial Watch suing them. The Department of Justice is also investigating the IRS. So at the same time it’s supposed to conduct a fair and impartial investigation on the one hand, and it is saying that it can, it is defending the IRS in court on the other hand on the missing document cases. I think there is a potential appearance of a conflict of interest there.”
Dobbs mentions that Andrew Strelka used to work under Lois Lerner at the IRS, but now works in the tax division of the Justice Department. Attkisson said that Strelka was part of a discussion about focusing on Tea Party cases. And now, he is part of the department investigating it. Dobbs credits Judicial Watch and the Oversight Committee for their persistence in searching out the truth in these scandals.
“I mean everywhere we turn there seems to be an Obama appointee who is effectively blocking the progress for the search for truth. Without Judicial Watch, without the Oversight committee in particular we wouldn’t know what the hell is going on in this government at all, would we?”
Attkisson said:
“Perhaps not….When John Koskinen was brought in to basically, we were told, to get at the bottom of things and get at the truth, based on his actions in his testimony to Congress it seems as though his edict, at least in the action that he’s given, was more about protecting the IRS, not necessarily getting to the truth.”
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