Is the GOP Involved in the IRS Cover-up? .......................................... from James P. Willis

In a statement issued Monday, Judicial Watch revealed that DOJ attorneys had confirmed that the supposedly missing Lois Lerner e-mails still exist on a government wide backup system. An article in the New York Observer published the same day reported that the IRS had destroyed Lois Lerner’s Blackberry, said to have contained copies of the same e-mails, after the congressional inquiry was well underway and IRS officials were fully aware that the data contained on the Blackberry was the subject of that inquiry. There is a lot that we do not yet know about this scandal, but one thing we do know is that there is an agency wide, and in fact an administration wide effort underway to destroy pertinent evidence and block the ongoing investigations.          (continue reading)