IRS erased backups after realizing tea party emails lost

Associated Press ^ | Jun. 24, 2015 6:19 PM EDT | Stephen Ohlemacher

[Olog-hai]

Government investigators say IRS employees erased computer backup tapes a month after officials discovered that thousands of emails related to the tax agency’s tea party scandal had been lost.

The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.

The report is likely to fuel conspiracy theories among conservatives who say the IRS has obstructed congressional investigations into the scandal. …

[Olog-hai]

Who investigates the investigators, eh?

The LORD rebuke you for editorializing, Ohlemacher.

[FreedomStar3028]

Bull they erased the tapes on accident. WTF! know how hard it is to erase a tape on accident? lololol yea okay!

[Fungi]

Nonsense.

[Blood of Tyrants]

This happens too often in this administration to be mere coincidence.

[NormsRevenge]

Bonuses for everybody!! Delete!! Delete!!

[marron]

Remember that Nixon lost his presidency over 18 minutes of erased tape out of thousands.

These guys erase anything and everything you ask for, run secret email systems, withhold documents until they’ve lost their last appeal and then erase them. And laugh in your face all the while.

[Democrat_media]

Government workers at the IRS and their boss Obama are unaccountable. Obama amd Obama’s IRS oppressed conservatives , obstructed justice and yet nothing has been done to any of them

This is tyranny.

And people still trust government .government is not accountable to anyone as this shows.

[bajabaja]

So it’s a conspiracy theory that the scandal exists and its electronic footprints disappear not once, but twice?

AP gets tin foil hat award.

[Red Steel]

I had no doubt the IRS would degauss the email media than turn over criminally indictable evidence.

[Slings and Arrows]

The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.

[knarf]

Conspiracy theory ??

You gutt'a be shittin' me !

[Ray76]

Fast and Furius... nothing

AP targetted... nothing

IRS... nothing

Benghazi... nothing

Secretary of State illegal email server... nothing

Republicans do nothing.

Nothing except:

introduce bills to “fix” Obamacare (offer tax subsidies)

push amnesty

give Obama TPA TPP

Republicans are no different than Democrats.

The Uniparty - everything for this in the party, nothing for those outside the party

[rarestia]

“Tapes” are a very generic term used for any offsite media backup. With the modern cloud, it’s feasible that one could remove all of the vaults used to store data, but so much more would be lost than just these data sets unless they created vaults specifically for Tea Party emails.

If, however, they used magnetic media like tapes, yeah, that data’s not lost, and IIRC, groups like Iron Mountain are required to have additional media backups of critical data sets, depending on the contract. I’ve worked for hospitals, and I can tell you they have triplicate backups. The government is lying, plain and simple.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Bullmanuer.

[Noumenon]

The will not be held accountable until all of them are decorating lamp posts.

[MHGinTN]

It is their untouchable criminal org status that made them the perfect government servants to enforce obamanation rule over America.

[SaveFerris]

[The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.]

Oh, OK.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Or, misdirecting

[IamConservative]

Bull they erased the tapes on accident. WTF! know how hard it is to erase a tape on accident? lololol yea okay!

If they followed the Sarbanes Oxley burden they make businesses endure, they would have had to erase a hella lot of tapes to actually lose the data.

[zzwhale]

ok so lets erase their jobs, erase their pensions and put them on trial under oath
WE LIVE IN A LAND OF NO LAWS.....
JUST POLITICAL ACTS