QuoteFirst IRS Tech to Inspect Lois Lerner Hard Drive Was Blind


The first IRS technician to inspect the computer hard drive of the former official at the center of a targeting scandal was legally blind, according to an affidavit filed last summer.

The admission from Stephen Manning, deputy chief information officer for strategy and modernization at the Internal Revenue Service, came in a document filed July 18, 2014, in a lawsuit filed by True the Vote against the IRS, according to PJ Media.

The suit alleges former IRS official Lois Lerner led an effort to target the conservative group and tea party groups by refusing to grant them tax-exempt status.

"According to the [information technology] Specialist, prior to joining the Internal Revenue Service, from 2004 to 2005, formal Microsoft training was completed through Lions World Services for the Blind, a certified Microsoft training and testing center," Manning stated in the affidavit.



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IRS officials initially claimed Lerner's hard drive was irreparably damaged before it was destroyed in 2011.

But last year, investigators with the House Ways and Means Committee interviewed IRS technical experts who said the hard drive was merely scratched and not irreparable, The Hill has reported.

"The Committee was told no data was recoverable and the physical drive was recycled and potentially shredded," then-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp said just days after Manning's July 18 affidavit was filed, according to the Daily Caller.

"To now learn that the hard drive was only scratched, yet the IRS refused to utilize outside experts to recover the data, raises more questions about potential criminal wrong doing at the IRS."

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I saw this story over the weekend. At the time, I wondered, "What, exactly, did the people hire a blind IRS employee to do?" Did they know, perhaps, that there would be an opportunity to assign this sightless employee to find that which they did not want found?