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Email: LOIS LERNER HARD DRIVE CRASH
House Ways and Means Committee ^ | Monday, June 13, 2011 10:19 AM | Akaisha Douglas

Posted on 07/03/2014 11:07:16 PM PDT by SSS Two

From: Douglas, Akaisha
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:19 AM
To: Grant Joseph H; Medina Moises C; &TEGE:EO 1750 Penn Ees
CC: Cook Janine; Marks Nancy J; Livingston Catherine E; Ingram Sarah H; Flax Nicole C; Holland Tiwana M; Lemmons Terry L; Siereveld Brett L; Tesser Cheryl A
Subject: LOIS LERNER HARD DRIVE CRASH

Lois' hard drive has crashed on her computer and will be without email. If you need to contact Lois please call her at 202-283-8848. For immediate attention, contact Akaisha Douglas at 202-283-9488.

Akaisha Douglas
IRS, Exempt Organizations
202-283-9488

[This email appears on page 24 of the linked .pdf]


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; lerner
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To: SSS Two

These lies are so stupid that a child wouldn’t tell them.


21 posted on 07/04/2014 12:25:17 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: SSS Two

I agree, this is a stupid email and fools nobody except those willing to be fooled.

If Ms Lerner wanted to access her email she could simply log in to ANOTHER computer. From there she could both send and receive email.

In the unlikely event that her computer actually did crash, when they gave her another one (since she was SES, that would be near immediately) to replace it, they would promptly restore all her software and access to any folders she had set up in the system (they’d be on the server with her emails).


22 posted on 07/04/2014 12:32:11 AM PDT by House Atreides (ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN FOR CHILDERS 2014 .... Don't reward bad GOPe behavior.)
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To: SSS Two

Not to mention the fact that, if a hard drive did crash on a server, they are as easily replaceable as a toner cartridge is on a laser printer.


23 posted on 07/04/2014 12:39:30 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: SSS Two

I am sure Ms. Douglas does not want to go to jail. She would be a good place to start with a subpoena.

People occasionally say to me, “ oh you have friends in high places” when I pull off a mind boggling organizational move. I say no, I have friends in low places. They usually know the systems better than their bosses and know where the bodies are buried.


24 posted on 07/04/2014 12:40:10 AM PDT by bjorn14 (Woe to those who call good evil and evil good. Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Little Pig

I have e-mails dating back years.

I’m not a knowledgeable computer person, and I only researched hardware because I wanted to upgrade the guts of my friend’s 4-5 year old low-end gaming PC. But even I know the idea of “losing e-mail to a hard drive crash” is preposterous.


25 posted on 07/04/2014 12:46:27 AM PDT by wastedyears (I'm a pessimist, I say plenty of negative things. Consider it a warning of sorts.)
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To: Viennacon
You can still presumably access your email from any computer with the internet.

Exactly!

26 posted on 07/04/2014 1:01:23 AM PDT by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: SSS Two

This needs to be vetted by Doug from Upland.


27 posted on 07/04/2014 1:03:41 AM PDT by kaehurowing (FIGHT BULLYING, UNINSTALL FIREFOX)
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To: SSS Two
Yep.

I have had hard drives crash with irretrievable data lost (with the exception of back-ups).

Still, I never sent a broad distribution e-mail to the effect that my computer had crashed. Only a select few, if any who might have sent e-mails which were downloaded very recently would be notified, if anyone.

The IRS e-mails were legally required to be backed up and preserved.

The documents should have been on the server when she got back up and running with another computer or hard drive, should have had separate back-ups, and should still, if official, have been present on another set of hard drives as well (those of the other computers sending or receiving the e-mails.

Multiple redundancies should have ensured these documents were not lost, as they are legally required to be preserved.

The absence of those e-mails isn't a case of "oops, my drive crashed", but the result of purging them from multiple computer systems.

28 posted on 07/04/2014 1:25:29 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

What I’m wondering is whether the backed up MBX files in fact did contain those emails, but because it’s “too much bother to look for a particular email” they never tried restoring MBX files then scanning them.


29 posted on 07/04/2014 1:33:46 AM 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: HiTech RedNeck

I’m not so sure that it is a case of “too much bother” so much as a case of destroying evidence. The efforts to recover any information will be full of sound and fury, perhaps even frenzied activity, but will (intentionally) come to naught. Even IF the e-mails are found by someone within the administration, I’d bet those files will be (illegally) purged as well.


30 posted on 07/04/2014 1:38:59 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: SSS Two

Yep—they’re trying to make sure nobody puts anything else incriminating in their email records.


31 posted on 07/04/2014 2:01:02 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: expat1000

I’d say that gives us a pretty good idea of at least 14 more IRS employees in on the criminality.


32 posted on 07/04/2014 2:02:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Little Pig

Lerner wasn’t the head of the agency, just of this particular ‘criminal enterprise’.


33 posted on 07/04/2014 2:03:57 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DesertRhino
As the hip hop culture says,,,”bitch please,,”

Could this possibly be from the same people who brought us the Obamacare computer screw up? Could this be their/Michelle's deliberate misinformation?

34 posted on 07/04/2014 2:06:42 AM PDT by yoe (I voted against that incompetent, lying, flip-flopping, insince, double-talking, radical-socialist)
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To: SSS Two

So, I’m wondering exactly how they inserted this email retroactively into the time stream. Did they just reset the clock on the desktop? Did the change the complete system clock for a few seconds? My guess is when Congress demands access to the server logs, they’ll ‘lose’ that one too.


35 posted on 07/04/2014 2:07:32 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: BerryDingle; Viennacon

“You can still presumably access your email from any computer with the internet.”

Not necessarily with their setup. The I.T. department would have had to set up OWA (Outlook Web Access). It’s not like they were using gmail.


36 posted on 07/04/2014 2:27:04 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: Gaffer
So, I’m wondering exactly how they inserted this email retroactively into the time stream. Did they just reset the clock on the desktop? Did the change the complete system clock for a few seconds?

Edited the timestamp.

37 posted on 07/04/2014 2:30:37 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: expat1000

You can go in to a specific text stream and change times/dates but then it becomes just a text in essence. If this is what they are providing, then it is meaningless.

You can reset your computer clock and it will do all the resetting of any new emails with the old date, but when ‘sent’ anywhere that are overhead handshakes between the servers that process the transmission are not changed.

It would be difficult to make it completely chronologically pure as that would require resetting all the servers that touch it along the way. If they are asked to show this ‘trail’ my guess is that they will stonewall this harder than this hard drive crash crap, because if they are caught screwing with the entire system that way, that smacks of just plain old treason.


38 posted on 07/04/2014 2:45:59 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SSS Two

So the IRS expects us to believe their emails are not routed through a server and archived? In healthcare, even my emails are subject to regulatory storage and retention standards. So we either have an IRS that is working on a 1985 email system. Or liars. What version of Bill Gates government software are they running? Are they still on DOS mail?
Even if her hard drive crashed all the people she sent emails to would have them. Trust me, emails that might cause trouble down the road are usually saved and sometimes printed out.
If the head of the IRS cannot get IT support then they should be shut down for a period until they become accountable again. Maybe they use the same people that created healthcare.gov.
between this, the VA and Benghazi, all the evidence leads me to believe they are liars.


39 posted on 07/04/2014 2:46:35 AM PDT by momincombatboots (Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
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To: SSS Two
I have something HARD for dear Lois.
NO not that. . . .
A baseball Bat swung with full force. . . .
40 posted on 07/04/2014 2:58:58 AM PDT by DeaconRed (Why would ANYBODY want to be President after the mess ZERO is leaving?)
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