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IRS Tech Said Lerner's Hard Drive WASN'T Damaged
Fox Nation ^ | 15 Aug 2014 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 08/15/2014 4:31:47 PM PDT by mandaladon

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan Thursday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to come up with new answers after IRS employees contradicted sworn testimony about damage to Lois Lerner’s hard drive.

Sullivan ruled that “the IRS is hereby ORDERED to file a sworn Declaration, by an official with the authority to speak under oath for the Agency, by no later than August 22, 2014″ on four issues: the IRS’ attempted recovery of Lerner’s lost emails after her computer allegedly crashed, bar codes that could have been on the hard drive, IRS policies on hard drive destruction, and information about an outside vendor who worked on IRS hard drives.

Recent documents from nonprofit group Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS, which Sullivan is presiding over, showed that IRS technology officials contradicted sworn testimony about damage to Lerner’s hard drive.

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To: mandaladon

Oddly, on my government computer, I was able to have our IT guys retrieve an email a week after I deleted it.

I’m pretty sure government emails are archived somewhere.


21 posted on 08/15/2014 5:17:56 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Real Cynic No More
There’s nothing in the article that supports the statement in the headline. What’s up with that?

The hard drive where that particular paragraph was stored experienced a crash, and the four sentences you are looking for are now impossible to recover.

22 posted on 08/15/2014 5:38:39 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: Lurker

And it sounds like this judge has had enough......


23 posted on 08/15/2014 5:40:12 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: mandaladon

I can’t say this is any more than speculation, but does any one find it odd that the Post Office is reporting a 2 billion loss in the first quarter?

Could this administration be transferring funds from one entity to another? Using the money to continue to obfuscate?


24 posted on 08/15/2014 5:46:18 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: granite
"If my computer fails, I can go to any computer, anywhere or a smart phone and access my email account."

That may be true for you, but it is not necessarily the case for everyone. It depends upon the email client you use and its configuration.

I use several different email clients, some of which are web-based and some of which use POP or IMAP configurations. The POP client, through my choice, is set-up so that the mail is DOWNLOADED to the local machine on which the client is run, and DELETED from the server. This means that I cannot go to any computer, anywhere or a smart phone and read the messages that have already been downloaded & deleted.

In most cases, I can access my email account from another computer or smart-phone via a browser-based email interface, but email previously downloaded and deleted from the server will not be available in the mailbox. No-can-do. Simple as that.

This, of course, doesn't address situations where the client is configured to leave a copy on the server, or the possibility of retrieving messages from a backup tape.

And, of course, it has nothing to do with Lerner and the IRS, which almost certainly was bound-by-law to have backups. It's only meant to illustrate that there are many variables involved, and your situation isn't necessarily pertinent to the way someone else's email handling systems operate.

25 posted on 08/15/2014 5:48:24 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: Lurker

I’d rather the Judge declare that if the IRS refuses to obey the law, he sees no reason Americans have to obey the IRS and declare a tax holiday until the IRS complies.

He’d never do it, but still, it’s a nice thought.


26 posted on 08/15/2014 6:03:29 PM PDT by henkster (Do I really need a sarcasm tag?)
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To: mandaladon

You mean officials appointed by and serving at the leisure of the regime.. Lied??

I’m shocked. Just shocked!! Not.


27 posted on 08/15/2014 6:05:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: henkster

Oh but if he did... the people would crown him king.


28 posted on 08/15/2014 6:10:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: granite

Well said...


29 posted on 08/15/2014 6:14:20 PM PDT by Does so ("Miranda Warnings" and loss of "Common-Law Marriage" = 2 Big Mistakes...)
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To: mandaladon

It only gets better when we end the IRS.


30 posted on 08/15/2014 6:14:37 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

he would never pick up a tab around me!


31 posted on 08/15/2014 6:19:08 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: 1010RD

Any country that isn’t godly will end up in the same kind of morass. Huge taxing bureaucracy.


32 posted on 08/15/2014 6:20:25 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: mandaladon

Finally an order mentioning mobile devices.
Her BlackBerry is not on Herr hard drive, it immediately implies server access.


33 posted on 08/15/2014 6:23:46 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Have we crossed the line from Govt. in righteous fear of the People - to a People in fear of Govt??)
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To: mandaladon
contempt, obstruction, conspiracy, tampering, and now perjury.

Lois is gonna be gone for a long time!

34 posted on 08/15/2014 6:24:21 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Paulie
That just gives them time to ‘figure something out’, so to speak.

And to perjure themselves further.

This could all be getting really good, really soon.

FReegards!

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35 posted on 08/15/2014 6:53:31 PM PDT by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: mandaladon

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36 posted on 08/15/2014 6:57:11 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a weapon...eh? "Bathhouse" 0'Mullah? d8-)
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To: mandaladon

It’ll take a while but they’re gonna get Lois...


37 posted on 08/15/2014 6:57:42 PM PDT by GOPJ (Just remember, loot the liberals' houses, they don't have guns. - Freeper dfwgator)
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To: mandaladon

I imagine an IRS bathroom attendant will get a citation in 2045 at the rate this is going.


38 posted on 08/15/2014 7:08:21 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Truth29

If they don’t comply I’m pretty sure they get bonuses. ..


39 posted on 08/15/2014 7:23:12 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Neidermeyer
"They’re not afraid of 2 years and a pardon in a country club."

Your observation is why crimes committed by public officials should be automatically raised to a capital offence.

Imagine a court clerk facing a firing squad for pocketing a fifty dollar fine. We'd either have more honest public servants, or MUCH more clever thieves.

40 posted on 08/15/2014 10:05:30 PM PDT by jonascord (Laeti vescimur nos subacturis)
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