Posted on 06/14/2014 10:21:19 AM PDT by mojito
...[M]oments ago, representative Steve Stockman (R-Texas) announced he would request that the National Security Agency help in the hunt for missing emails to and from the IRSs Lois Lerner, and recover two years worth of "lost" emails.
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And now the NSA is caught between a rock and a hard place: because if it refuses an official congressional demand, it shows once again that the spy agency is entirely separated from any concept of checks and balances and accountability; if it complies, it confirms that all the NSA is, considering it can't even tap into a bunch of Al Qaeda phones and figure out what the jihadists' strategy is in Iraq, is just a massive data repository of all US electronic information, to be abused at will by corrupt, criminal government workers, some of whom will likely have to resort to the "dog ate my emails" excuse in the immediate future.
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How this comes out will determine whether there is anything left of our constitutional republic.
In a just world this would determine how much is left of the IRS and the NSA.
Push IS coming to Shove isnt it!
Waste of time. He should go try to find an independent IT geek.
Nobody in accountable to this administration has any principles or integrity left.
This is the great disappointment to me. We know things are going on that are totally wrong but can’t prove it and can’t get anyone with enough guts to come forward in enough numbers to expose it.
Techies, help me out. If a computer completely crashes and burns, especially a government computer. Is there not a cloud backup somewhere that automatically archives files, including emails? Is the NSA even needed?
I’m sure the NSA will get right on that. At any moment. Any time now. They’re working feverishly on the problem. Do I need to go on?
The while thing is laughable. They are required by law to maintain backups of their exchange database. Ask any admin, including myself, how likely it is they lost this. There is no way. Even if they had a perforated primary array that houses their exchange mail store, there is a backup and likely a fail over.
At the very least, this should trigger a massive audit of their email infrastructure. We should be and I am demanding it. Audit the IRS and charge any and all connected to this supposed data loss. Once the charges come, watch how quick those emails come up.
Great news.
They would have also lost tax records.
So we don’t owe anything?
If NSA can be made to restore the emails and if they cause great pain to the administration, it will be a wonderful example of getting what you wish for.
DITTOS AND AMEN!
This administration really believes that everyone in the USA is as stupid as their voters. I guess Juan Williams will be defending this too.
The emails on her computer were all sent or received by others, so you go and subpoena all the other people she was in contact with...they can’t all have lost their emails.
It just slows the process down...
Lost my @$$. These people know exactly where they are and they are busy destroying them so they won’t all go to jail.
Maybe it’s time to give that witch Lois Lerner immunity. She is just one cog in the giant wheel of corruption known as the IRS.
Let her sing. If she’s granted immunity and refuses to testify, she can be jailed until she does.
“Im a DOJ lawyer, so you obviously cannot use my name or any identifying information. But the idea that a hard drive crash somehow destroyed all of Ms. Lerners intra-government email correspondence during the period in question [2009-2011] is laughable. Government email servers are backed up every night. So if she actually had a hard drive fail, her emails would be recoverable from the backup. If the backup was somehow also compromised, then we are talking about a conspiracy....
Im serious about your keeping any identifying information out of the media. Things are very, very bad.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/06/lois-lerners-lost-emails.php
Yes, servers (and the files on them) should be backed up. Also, there are forensic procedures that in many cases can be used to recover (partially or otherwise) files from damaged hardware. But - this is the government, so you never know to what depth the level of incompetency sinks.
Nevertheless, the excuse that emails cannot be provided because of a computer crash is an extremely lame one, and should be material for an investigation itself, as to why government files are not backed up. This is just basic security procedure.
Fer cryin’ out loud, just ask Ed Snowden...he’s got ‘em all on a thumb drive.
This is actually better than it sounds, because just a few days ago, the NSA whined that its system was so complex that it *couldn’t* delete metadata as required by law.
So if that is true, they *must* have the Lerner data. And if it is not, the NSA has been caught in a criminal lie.
I suspect that they will quickly give up the Lerner data, and hope it blows over on their side. No matter what happens, they are going to get the snot kicked out of them.
Actually you both missed the point.
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