Budget cuts may have spared key IRS emails

Published September 5, 2014 4:29am ET



WASHINGTON EXAMINER — Lois Lerner’s lost emails may have been saved, thanks to budget cuts.

A top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said he has learned that key lost emails sent by Lerner, a former IRS administrator accused of targeting conservatives, may be preserved somewhere within 760 exchange servers that were supposed to be destroyed two years ago.

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who is chairman of an Oversight panel subcommittee, said Friday that according to the Treasury Inspector General, “the servers had not been destroyed due to budgetary constraints.”

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