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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claimed Friday that it cannot produce Lois Lerner’s emails to and from the White House and other administration departments due to a supposed computer crash...
IRS: So
Excuse me if I don't believe these people. Someone needs to go to jail, and we the people need to know what the hell is going on with the IRS and the White House.
It's 100% total bull**** from a sysadmin's perspective. If any business had given the IRS this excuse they'd be seizing their computers and equipment as we speak.
It's 100% total bull**** from a sysadmin's perspective. If any business had given the IRS this excuse they'd be seizing their computers and equipment as we speak.
he IRS has informed the House Ways and Means Committee that it has lost Lois Lerner email messages from January 2009–April 2011. Harkening back to the allegedly accidental erasure of 18 1/2 minutes of critical Oval Office recordings that contributed to Richard Nixon’s resignation from office, the IRS attributes the loss of Lerner email to a computer crash.
Some email survives: the agency retains Lerner email to and from other IRS employees during this period. The IRS claims it cannot produce email written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or offices of Democrat congressmen. Funny how that works.
Reminder: The charge that Richard Nixon “endeavored” to misuse the IRS made its way into the second of the three articles of impeachment voted against him by the House Judiciary Committee. Nixon’s efforts to misuse the IRS were futile. They went nowhere. Nixon and his henchmen desired the IRS to “screw” their political opponents, but their efforts were a pathetic failure.
Nixon henchman Jack Caulfield astutely complained that the IRS was a “monstrous bureaucracy…dominated and controlled by Democrats.” As we have come to see, Caulfield was on to something. By contrast with Nixon’s failures to misuse the IRS, the IRS has very effectively “screwed” Obama’s political opponents, and we have yet to learn what the president knew and when he knew it.
Congressman Steve Stockman Friday asked the National Security Agency to turn over all its metadata on the email accounts of former Internal Revenue Service Exempt Organizations division director Lois Lerner for the period between January 2009 and April 2011.
The request comes just hours after the IRS claimed it “lost” all of Lerner’s emails to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups during that period, in which she allegedly coordinated with the White House, House Democrats and political groups to harass and deny tax-exempt status to groups critical of the President. The IRS blames a “computer glitch” for erasing the emails which could have implicated Agency employees in illegal activity.
Un-friking-believable... Is there a person alive with an IQ over 10 who actually believes this BS?
I wonder what exactly they mean?I don't believe it either. Maybe a tech-savvy someone will check in on this thread. But my common sense tells me that "every computer within the IRS" is backed up every hour. I say a crash that would have lost all these emails is a bold-faced lie.
Do you have a cite for this actually being done--someone pulling data off of a drive which has been wiped as you say?... then they can still pull information off of it.
IRS: So
Excuse me if I don't believe these people. Someone needs to go to jail, and we the people need to know what the hell is going on with the IRS and the White House.
Do you have a cite for this actually being done--someone pulling data off of a drive which has been wiped as you say?
Or just one where someone idly speculates that this sort of thing may be theoretically possible?
Do you have a cite for this actually being done--someone pulling data off of a drive which has been wiped as you say?
Or just one where someone idly speculates that this sort of thing may be theoretically possible?
seems the ones unavailable to the irs were the ones set to the white house
would seem the white house computers should be able to fill in the gap
unless they take a que from dicknbush and pretend that information is also unavailable to them:
Bush White House email controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
seems the ones unavailable to the irs were the ones set to the white house
would seem the white house computers should be able to fill in the gap
unless they take a que from dicknbush and pretend that information is also unavailable to them:
Bush White House email controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
IRS: So
Excuse me if I don't believe these people. Someone needs to go to jail, and we the people need to know what the hell is going on with the IRS and the White House.
According to the IRS, the computer crash in question occurred in 2011, prior to the the targeting scandal coming to light, and though Lerner attempted to have the hard drive in questions salvaged, IT staff were unable to recover the data because sectors of the drive had gone bad.
Read more: IRS lost two years of Lois Lerner's email in Tea Party Probe, blames computer crash - UPI.com
It's certainly possible for this to be true, but it points toward some mismanagement or negligence on the part of the IT crew.
Generally accepted practices prevent just this sort of thing from happening.
I wonder what there data retention policies are.
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