"Delete This Email:" HHS Official Asks Spokesman to Delete Email In Wake of Healthcare.Gov Disaster

Nothing shady about this, I'm sure.

Meanwhile, in the unrelated (?) IRS targeting matter, a judge ordered the IRS to provide sensible answers to why Lois Lerner's emails had been lost.

The IRS just provided some answers.

The judge just told them those aren't good answers.

At The Hill:

A federal judge on Thursday pressed the IRS for additional information about former agency official Lois Lerner’s missing emails, suggesting he expected more from the agency’s filings earlier this week.

Judge Emmet Sullivan of U.S. District Court in Washington is seeking answers on four different fronts, including what efforts the IRS made to recover Lerner’s lost emails from alternate sources like an iPhone or Blackberry.

Sullivan gave the IRS just over a week, until Aug. 22, to supply those answers, as part of a lawsuit filed by a conservative watchdog, Judicial Watch, seeking Lerner’s emails through a freedom of information lawsuit. The judge had previously given the agency a month to respond to his previous order, which asked more general questions about how Lerner’s computer crashed in 2011.

The IRS responded that they had no reason to suspect a deliberate sabotage.

Let me just say that my antennae go up when I hear someone telling me what didn't happen, without actually telling me what did happen.

posted by Ace at 05:28 PM

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