The IRS destroyed Lois Lerner’s Blackberry after the investigation began

As everybody who has been following the IRS targeting scandal already knows, Lois Lerner’s hard drive, as well as six others who were involved in the scandal, conveniently crashed and all emails related to the scandal were supposedly lost when the hard drives crashed even though we now know they were backed up on government servers.

But did you know that the IRS also destroyed Lois Lerner’s Blackberry? Neither did I, but according to this story that is exactly what happened.

Here is more:

The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivan’s court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerner’s Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerner’s hard drive With incredible disregard for the law and the Congressional inquiry, the IRS admits that this Blackberry “was removed or wiped clean of any sensitive or proprietary information and removed as scrap for disposal in June 2012.” This is a year after her hard drive “crash” and months after the Congressional inquiry began

And, conveniently once again, there is no evidence that the IRS tried to recover any data which might have been on said Blackberry before it was destroyed:

The IRS did not even attempt to retrieve that data. It cavalierly recites: “There is no record of any attempt by any IRS IT employee to recover data from any Blackberry device assigned to Lois Lerner in response to the Congressional investigations or this investigation,” according to Stephen Manning, Deputy Chief Information Officer for Strategy & Modernization

So, after Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashed, and after the Congress opened up an investigation there was still potential evidence on Lois Lerner’s Blackberry. Instead of trying to preserve whatever records of the targeting scandal still existed on Lois Lerner’s Blackberry the IRS instead decided to destroy her Blackberry, and any evidence which might have been on it disappeared forever.

But fear not for there is not even a smidgen of corruption here…