Federal judge orders IRS to explain lost Lerner emails ‘under oath’

Fox ^ | Thurs, July 10, 2014 | Jake Gibson and Peter Doocy and The Associated Press

[unixfox]

When will someone ask the question:

Is the IRS a part of the Federal Government or an entity of it’s own.

Of course NOBODY will ask THAT question.

[pepsionice]

I can say this...having worked around government operations...that once someone says the boss has to give testimony under oath...things get awful messy. The boss will have several lawyers standing in a room as he questions his junior executives, and he might require them to sign statements as they answer his questions. At that point, the junior guys call their lawyers, and question-and-answer sessions with the boss suddenly get stagnant. No one will sign any statement....no one will vouch for anything....and the whole system falls apart within two or three weeks.

I can also vouch for this. Almost all of the chiefs of various government agencies....have zero knowledge or understanding of their networks, IT strategies, their back-up plan, or how email works. This is one of the reasons why they all spend four-hundred percent of the necessary budget on their network/IT requirements. It’s why they have $150k a year IT engineers in their back-up department, when a $50k a year junior engineer would be sufficient.

[i_robot73]

Yep, I can hear/see/read it now:

Judge: Please explain
IRS: My dog ate my e-mail paper back-ups
Judge: OK, dismissed.

Color me unimpressed until somebody is hauled off to jail for violating the “Law” (note the quotes...the Law is only for the serfs)

[WILLIALAL]

I can say this...having worked around government operations...

I can also add that when it comes to government computers or IT systems there is always a paper trail, especially if it involves destroying government hard drives. Someone had to sign off and give the ok to have it destroyed. did they follow all established procedures? If not why?

[WILLIALAL]

so even if these messages were deleted there would be a record of them somewhere.........

They had tape backup, which was written over after 6 months. But if her other files were recovered for her new computer, why weren’t her emails. Emails are just too essential to government work to just be eliminated. They are a paper trail and time stamp for a person like Lerner, who would need those emails to keep track of on going IRS business. No one would have their data recovered and not their emails, that makes no sense.