Despite disingenuous—and perhaps deliberately deceptive—affidavits filed by the Department of Justice attorneys in his court, we learned that the IRS deliberately destroyed Lois Lerner’s Blackberry after it knew the computers had “crashed” and after the Congressional inquiry was well underway.
In a ruling on Friday, federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ruled that Rule 17 “subpoenas were just a fishing expedition” for additional evidence, and cut the prosecutors’ line. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)