Posted on 06/21/2014 8:41:03 AM PDT by Renfield
A Congressional inquiry into the targeting of Tea Party and Conservative organizations by the IRS has revealed that thousands of emails from IRS head Lois Lerner and at least six of her subordinates have been lost to history after the hard drive which stored them was reportedly thrown away. The loss of the emails makes it nearly impossible to track down and verify what actually took place and whether or not the Obama administration was directly involved in the harassment of independent groups that didn’t agree with the President’s political platform.
Without the emails their is no accountability, despite the fact that the President Obama has repeatedly claimed that transparency and the rule of law would be touchstones of his Presidency. “Starting today every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known,” said President Obama at a press conference on the day he took office in January of 2009.
The President’s past statements run contrary to the events playing out on Capitol Hill today, where the IRS has claimed that the emails have been “lost forever.”
Congressman Darrell Issa pointed out the ridiculousness of the claims saying that such records could only disappear because of deliberate destruction.
“Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.”
It turns out that Senator Darrell Issa is right. Records like these don’t just disappear without a trace.
We know the whereabouts of the lost IRS emails and they could likely be accessed and shown to the American public within 24 hours.
It turns out that there just so happens to be a redundant set of digital records available in a facility capable of holding some septillion pages of information (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pages of text) that has been actively aggregating and storing digital data for years.
Access to any of those records can be had with a simple directive from the President of the United States.
The facility where the records are stored, along with the private emails, text messages, google searches and 20 trillion domestic phone calls since 2001 is owned and operated by America’s National Security Agency which, among other things, is responsible for the monitoring of American citizens and storing any and all digital interactions captured on private and public telecommunications lines. The NSA’s most advanced intelligence monitoring facility is located at Camp Williams and is called the “Utah Data Center.”
If the emails ever existed, whether they were deliberately wiped or accidentally lost, the National Security Agency undoubtedly has a digital record of them.
Intelligence officials and law enforcement refer to the phenomenon as “digital permanence” and what it means is that there exists a record of every digital interaction taking place over the internet somewhere. So, even if you happen to lose a hard drive or purposefully click that delete button, you’d be in luck. The National Security Agency has a copy of it because they have been effectively collecting all data sent over telecommunications lines in the United States since at least 2001.
The mind-boggling amount of data being collected at this and other facilities seems like something out of a science fiction movie, but according to award-winning mathematician and NSA whistleblower William Binney it is very real – and it’s been happening for quite some time. And just in case you think they’re collecting “meta-data” such the the sender, receiver and subject line of an email exclusively, according to Binney, they are also collecting the content of the communication as well. That means they know what you texted, said on a phone call, or wrote in an email.
Binney explained that the government is taking the position that it can gather and use any informationabout American citizens living on U.S. soil if it comes from:
Any service provider … any third party … any commercial company – like a telecom or internet service provider, libraries, medical companies – holding data about anyone, any U.S. citizen or anyone else.
The government is gathering everything, including content.
Binney explained – as he has many times before – that the government is storing everything, and creating a searchable database … to be used whenever it wants, for any purpose it wants (even just going after someone it doesn’t like).
Given this revelation from someone who understands the inner workings of NSA signals intelligence and how they collect data, it’s clear that despite the IRS losing the emails in question, there exist exact replicas of them at the NSA.
It should only be a matter of time now before President Obama officially requests that the NSA turn over these records so that he can prove to the American public once and for all that neither he or those in his administration had any knowledge or influence over the IRS targeting of political enemies.
Of course they are there - and probably a dozen or more other places. This “her hard drive crashed” is a bunch of BS.
To even sit and listen to a convoluted explanation about it is an insult to one’s intelligence. Any government employee who spouts such should be imprisoned.
The NSA has been collecting everyone’s email since around 2006. Get the copies from them.
This is the equivalent to the missing time on the Watergate tape.
However, the response by the media is totally different.
What did they know and when did they know it and all that jazz.
What a dictators puppet the Press has become.
Is really any wonder why our country has become so ignorant?
Darrell Issa is NOT a Senator.
Bwahahahaha!! Good one! Tell another...
“Darrell Issa is NOT a Senator.”
True, and he’s not much of a Representative either. All horn, no driveshaft!
Because if they are, they are the hard drive crash is the relevant you can dispose of any correspondence whenever you see fit.
But if not..if IRS and other federal government agencies are required by law to maintain these records..
Then, to have them lost by the supposed crash of one hard drive, is criminal neglect and incompetence, on a level far worse than the IRS targeting Tea Party and their should be across the board prosecuted and prison time.
Wow, talk about magic thinking! The current regimethugs are not about to allow their secrets to be revealed. AQnd yes the NSA has all the minute details, but the NSA is as criminally run as any other department under this lawless regime of little drug-addled bath-house barry bastard boy. If court ordered for courier to Issa you can bet the records would 'accidentally' be lost there, too.
That Utah real estate needs to be rendered uninhabitable.
And it is this same criminal arm of the DNC thuggery now slated to control all of America’s healthcare. How ... fascist.
The loss of critical federal correspondence...
Required by law to be maintained....
From the crash of ONE hard drive...
Is a far bigger and far-reaching scandal of federal government criminal neglect...
Then the original issue of targeting of conservative groups
‘IRS contracted with email archiving company in 2005’
Is that a smoking gun I smell? It turns out the IRS contracted with a company that provides email backup services starting in 2005. This first came to light in the Twitter feed of moregenr, who noticed that the IRS appears on the client list of email archiving service provider Sonasoft.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/irs_contracted_with_email_archiving_company_in_2005.html
‘IRS contracted with email archiving company in 2005’
Is that a smoking gun I smell? It turns out the IRS contracted with a company that provides email backup services starting in 2005. This first came to light in the Twitter feed of moregenr, who noticed that the IRS appears on the client list of email archiving service provider Sonasoft.
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/irs_contracted_with_email_archiving_company_in_2005.html
It is critical for some heads to roll...
If not, what is at stake here is the ability of ‘Rats to communicate freely with impunity.
If they get away with this, then all the govt traveler communists know they can be emailing their scheming and conniving... it would be a great boon to their agenda without the fear of being caught by an errant email. They will then ratchet up their efforts, go into overdrive, scandals of the day will become scandals of the hour.
You know it has to be really bad for the Democrats to get that schmuck to go in front of the cameras and make excuses like a third grader.
I say this is as an IT professional 30 plus years of experience.
in any private company....
if you had records the federal government required you to maintain by law....
And you lost them by the crash of one hard drive.
You would not only be fired....you would be sued....and prosecuted.
In the professional IT world ..the loss of this data from one hard drive crash would constitute criminal malpractice.
it the equivalent of having an architects building collapse from a fundamental flaw and incompetence...
in IT it is a given that Hard Drives will fail.. its your job as a professional engineer to design systems that have redundancy so data is not lost
It turns out that Senator Darrell Issa is right.
Pardon me, but I hate this crap.
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