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The once missing emails of former IRS bureaucrat Lois Lerner were found. That's old news. The new news? There is now a criminal investigation underway to find out who hid them, and why:

President Obama's executive order granting deportation amnesty for certain illegal aliens may have an unexpected and outrageous side effect:

The Internal Revenue Service has another problem that it would rather you not know anything about:

Hundreds of former Internal Revenue Service employees who had a history of misconduct and poor performance on the job were rehired by the tax agency, including some who had committed fraud or falsified documents.

The Internal Revenue Service's Taxpayer Advocate has produced its annual report on the agency's behavior. What did it find? The taxman doesn't want to hear your complaints. Worse, if you're elderly or disabled, the IRS goes out of its way to ignore you. As our friends at Americans for Tax Reform note:

Not for good, but at least for a few days here and there, all due to the CRomnibus:

Nevermind enforcing the law or tracking down the real bad guys.

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This time, it's not related to Lois Lerner, but the Internal Revenue Service, facing a lawsuit from NetJets over a tax bill, is accused of "losing" the emails and other data relevant to the case: