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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Friday Document Dump: 30,000 IRS Emails Found

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By Jon Gabriel, Ed.
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Jon Gabriel (a.k.a., @ExJon on Twitter) is the Editor-in-Chief of Ricochet. He is a political writer and marketing consultant, contributing articles to The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, and USA Today among others. Until 2012, he served as Director of Marketing for the free-market Goldwater Institute, where he converted policy initiatives into compelling stories. In the private sector, Jon led marketing efforts for Cold Stone Creamery, Honeywell, and several technology companies. In his… [more]
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The midterms are over, the political world is distracted by Obama’s amnesty order, and official Washington has left for the weekend. In other words, a perfect time for the IRS inspector general to quietly note that he may have recovered up to 30,000 “missing” emails sent by Lois Lerner.

His office informed Congress late this afternoon that the information was discovered among the agency’s disaster recovery backup tapes:

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Perhaps I should say, “A big damn smidgen of corruption has surfaced.”

It’s rare in real life when the investigator becomes the investigated. This is the stuff of movies and courtroom dramas on TV. But something very interesting happened on Capitol Hill, because someone who shouldn’t be a person of interest in an ongoing investigation just became one. Explosive new e-mail evidence has come to light in the IRS Tea Party targeting scandal, indicating that the ranking Democrat member on the House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform, Elijah Cummings, may have had his staff colluding with the IRS in 2012 to put pressure on Catherine Engelbrecht’s fledgling voter integrity group in Texas, True The Vote, for information about the group’s software and training materials and information on its volunteers— information and requests that are virtually identical to what the IRS was demanding from Engelbrecht’s group. Coincidence or collusion?

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