This may come as little surprise to anyone skeptical about the trustworthiness of the top man at the IRS as well as of Lois Lerner, the former tax agency official implicated in the targeting scandal involving Tea Party and other conservative groups.

Another batch of Lerner’s “missing” emails has been found, according to a report on Fox News. And not just a handful of previously undisclosed communications, but thousands of emails that had been requested by congressional investigators but not provided to them. It was the Treasury’s Inspector General for Tax Administration who reportedly turned up the emails that the head of the IRS had told Congress were lost forever.

“The inspector general recovered approximately 6,400 Lerner emails and will carefully examine them as part of the committee’s bipartisan IRS investigation.”

The Hill reports that the IRS issued a statement about the discovery of the “missing” Lerner emails — a statement that apparently didn’t offer any sort of apology for misleading Congress in its probe of Lerner’s alleged participation in a scheme to single out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

“In a statement, the IRS said it was glad to hear that the inspector general found the new Lerner emails, calling it ‘an encouraging development that will help resolve remaining questions and dispel uncertainty surrounding the emails.’”