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Investigators said Thursday they have recovered 32,000 emails related to a former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party scandal.

But they don't know how many of them are new.

The emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last June, the IRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011.

At the time, IRS officials said the emails could not be recovered. But at a congressional hearing Thursday evening, investigators said they recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up the agency's email system.

"We recovered quite a number of emails but until we compare those to what's already been produced we don't know if they're new emails," Timothy Camus, a Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, told the House Oversight Committee.

Neither Camus nor the inspector general, J. Russell George, would describe the contents of any of the emails at Thursday's hearing.

The IRS says it has already produced 78,000 Lerner emails, many of which have been made public by congressional investigators.

Camus said it took investigators two weeks to locate the computer tapes that contained Lerner's emails. He said it took technicians about four months to find Lerner's emails on the tapes.

Several Oversight Committee members questioned how hard the IRS tried to produce the emails, given how quickly independent investigators found them.

"We have been patient. We have asked, we have issued subpoenas, we have held hearings," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the committee. "It's just shocking me that you start, two weeks later you're able to find the emails."

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Investigators Find 32,000 Emails in IRS Probe

WASHINGTON Investigators said Thursday they have recovered 32,000 emails related to a former IRS official at the heart of the agency's tea party scandal.

But they don't know how many of them are new.

The emails were to and from Lois Lerner, who used to head the IRS division that processes applications for tax-exempt status. Last June, the IRS told Congress it had lost an unknown number of Lerner's emails when her computer hard drive crashed in 2011.

At the time, IRS officials said the emails could not be recovered. But at a congressional hearing Thursday evening, investigators said they recovered thousands of emails from old computer tapes used to back up the agency's email system.

"We recovered quite a number of emails but until we compare those to what's already been produced we don't know if they're new emails," Timothy Camus, a Treasury deputy inspector general for tax administration, told the House Oversight Committee.

Neither Camus nor the inspector general, J. Russell George, would describe the contents of any of the emails at Thursday's hearing.

The IRS says it has already produced 78,000 Lerner emails, many of which have been made public by congressional investigators.

Camus said it took investigators two weeks to locate the computer tapes that contained Lerner's emails. He said it took technicians about four months to find Lerner's emails on the tapes.

Several Oversight Committee members questioned how hard the IRS tried to produce the emails, given how quickly independent investigators found them.

"We have been patient. We have asked, we have issued subpoenas, we have held hearings," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the committee. "It's just shocking me that you start, two weeks later you're able to find the emails."

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A man holds up a tea kettle during an Atlanta Tea Party tax protest in April 2009. John Bazemore/AP hide caption

A man holds up a tea kettle during an Atlanta Tea Party tax protest in April 2009.

It was February of 2009. President Obama had been in office less than a full month. His approval rating was over 60 and nearly 60% of the House and Senate seats were held by Democrats. The country seem poised on the edge of a new era, perhaps even another New Deal.

Not a few mainstream Republicans believed their party needed to do some serious soul-searching, house-cleaning and image-adjusting. A task force at the Republican National Committee was hard at work on just such a set of recommendations.

But there was another spirit in the land as well. In Washington state, which had easily gone for the Democrats in November, travelers on Interstate 5 could see a huge billboard reading: "Give me God, guns and gold and you can keep the change." The reference to Obama's 2008 "hope and change" theme could not have been clearer.

That same spirit of determined pushback was evident in plenty of other places, coast to coast, and it got more visible as the weeks went by.

Before Obama had been in office for a month, much of the nation saw an astonishing meltdown by cable TV personality Rick Santelli, an investment analyst on business news network CNBC.

For close to three minutes, Santelli harangued the live host and other on-air contributors with a fiery denunciation of the Obama plan to help homeowners whose property was worth less than its mortgage.

Santelli referred to "paying losers' mortgages" and strongly implied the program beneficiaries had no one but themselves to blame for their situation.

But then he uttered the magic phrase that altered the course of politics, if not history, on that chilly morning: "We're thinking about having a Chicago tea party in July," he shouted. "All you capitalists that wanna show up to Lake Michigan. I'm gonna start organizing."

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6 Years On, Is The Tea Party Here To Stay?

Editor:

Were hearing that the Tea Party is dying away. Dont believe it. The Tea Party wants what We the People and real conservatives want not what Republicans in Name Only (RINOS) or Democrats are doing.

Those multi-term career politicians dont care what the people want. Its about themselves and their power over us. However, most of the newly elected legislators are Tea Party candidates who take their oaths of office seriously and believe that the US Constitution is the Law of the Land.

The Tea Party, these new legislators, and a few others are listening to the American majority and want to: 1) stop bailouts, 2) reduce size and intrusiveness of Government, 3) lower, NOT raise taxes, 4) repeal/replace Obamacare, 5) cease out-of-control spending, 6) bring back American prosperity by securing our borders, saving American jobs from illegals, etc. (Open borders and amnesty benefit large companies wanting cheap labor and Democrats who want more voters). Conservatives supposedly share those same Tea Party goals, plus: 1) strong national defense, 2) inviolability of our Constitution, 3) right to bear arms, 4) value of every human life, 5) freedom of speech, 6) freedom of religion, and 7) importance of the family as the fundamental building block in our society.

These conservatives goals, although quite admirable, are useless if only on paper and not being pursued. Its mostly lip service as they do whatever.

On the other hand, the Tea Party and their newly elected legislators, have to fight RINOS, political business as usual and the administration, in attempting to achieve any of these much needed endeavors.

The Boston Tea Party saved us once and hopefully now the Tea Party along with freedom-loving Americans can save our country once again, this time from our own self-serving government. God Bless America!

Richard Quatman

Lake Havasu City

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