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IRS Used to Erase Email Backup Tapes
- Wall Street Journal, Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:01 PM
Former IRS chief Lois Lerner's missing email problem stemmed from a process in which IRS workers routinely erased backup tapes. The crucial emails from 2010-2011 were lost and not retrieved due to this standard procedure of deleting the back up. The process left 422 backup tapes erased.
