CNN’s Crowley to Lerner Attorney: Don’t Missing Emails Seem ‘Suspicious’?

William Taylor, the attorney for embattled IRS official Lois Lerner, sat down with CNN’s Candy Crowley today to push back against the “election-year politics” of the GOP-led IRS hearings. Crowley asked Taylor that given what the House is investigating, the fact that a chunk of her emails has gone missing isn’t just a little too convenient.

Crowley said it’s odd that the emails are just “irretrievable,” but Taylor insisted that Lerner was just as frustrated to find out her hard drive crashed and did everything she could to recover the data. Crowley suggested it’s very “suspicious” for these emails to go missing and for the IRS to disclose this fact in the middle of an investigation.

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Taylor said “it’s convenient to create suspicion” and dismissed the hearings as a partisan stunt. He said in a midterm year like this, “it’s convenient to have a demon they can create and point to,” and also said they had “no pretense this would be a fair process” from the outset.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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