Toby Miles to go before she sleeps

The IRS has disclosed another private email account on which Lois Lerner conducted official business. The disclosure occurred in the Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit for Lerner emails. The newly disclosed email account is under the name of Toby Miles. Stephen Dinan reports the story on the incredibly annoying Washington Times site here. One can circumvent the Times site via Thomas Lifson’s American Thinker post here.

Dinan reports:

“In addition to emails to or from an email account denominated ‘Lois G. Lerner‘ or ‘Lois Home,’ some emails responsive to Judicial Watch’s request may have been sent to or received from a personal email account denominated ‘Toby Miles,’” [IRS attorney Klimas told Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is hearing the case.

It is unclear who Toby Miles is, but Mr. Klimas said the IRS has concluded that was “a personal email account used by Lerner.”

We have the obligatory note of the unsuccessful request for comment: “Mr. Klimas didn’t respond to an email seeking comment Monday evening, and a spokeswoman for the tax agency didn’t respond to an email and phone call.” They’re faithfully following the Obama administration scandal playbook deduced by Sheryl Attkisson.

Dinan also gives us the close reading that is required to interpret administration documents:

[I]n his court filing Mr. Klimas argued that the IRS had previously hinted there may be other personal email accounts, pointing back to a footnote in a letter attached to a June 27, 2014, brief that mentioned “documents located on her personal home computer and email on her personal email account.”

He altered that wording in his filing Monday, saying the database of Lerner emails turned over to Congress included messages from her “‘personal home computer and email on her personal email’ account(s).”

As Tom Lifson notes, Judicial Watch seems to have been alerted to the existence of the Toby Miles account when the email address was included among recipients of official emails from Lerner already turned over to Judicial Watch.

UPDATE: My daughter Eliana answers the question everyone is asking: “Who’s Toby Miles?”

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