Posted on 07/11/2014 4:06:07 PM PDT by mandaladon
A federal judge Friday gave the IRS one week to hand over details on Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive and how to track it, the second federal judge in as many days to seek more information about the elusive emails.
Judge Reggie Walton of the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia ordered the the tax agency to find out by July 18 what happened to the crashed hard drive responsible for erasing two years worth of the former IRS official’s emails, including whether it’s traceable through a serial number.
If such information is gone, the judge wants an affidavit written under penalty of perjury by an IRS IT professional with “firsthand knowledge” of the situation.
News that two years worth of Lerner’s emails are gone has revitalized the waning controversy, which began in May 2013 when Lerner first revealed that her division was inappropriately targeting tea party groups seeking tax breaks.
The order could force the IRS to tell the court and the public information currently under wraps because of an ongoing watchdog investigation on the lost Lerner emails. The IRS says it cannot answer many congressional inquiries about the emails until after the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) has completed its probe.
The IRS’s attorney, Justice Department lawyer Joseph Sergi, did not know when or how Lerner’s hard drive was recycled, prompting more questions from the judge.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
A week is much more reasonable than the full month given by the previous federal judge. The IRS has been mucking around with the supposed lost emails for more than two years now and they should be able to provide the information in a half-day.
Get back to me when someone goes to jail.
Then...get back to me when they are actually punished.
F U B O!
I know the IRS next step will be......it will be to burn down the entire building, and then blame it on the Tea Party.
“Waning controversy” they wish. It will soon explode. Not improbable now that O will be forced out like Nixon, with lots of the left, media and GOPe with egg on their faces.
Lois Lerner’s probably hiding under her bed by now....
Hiding from the Obama regimes ‘fixers’.
Isn’t it amazing how cops and firemen can lose their jobs and pension if the slightest bit of THC is found in their bloodstream during a drug test, but government employees like the IRS and politicians who are hellbent on bringing fascism into the country, who obliterate the constitution, who put the lives and freedom of millions of people at risk, are constantly mollycoddled?
This is the Judge who presided on Scooter Libby case.
I will suspend judgment for now.
Lois Lerner’s probably hiding under her bed by now....
Hiding from the Obama regimes ‘fixers’.
I think you’re exactly right. I bet she actually fears for her life. Good.
Give ‘em two. Heck, give ‘em two years.
Better stay out of parks along the Potomac and definitely stay away from Arkansas and Chicago.....
Their addresses need to be published so we can hunt them down and crush them like the cockroaches are.
ALL OF THEM
Screw the hard drive. Subpoena the mail server backups. They think we’re stupid enough to believe that the personal hard drives of these people are the only copy.
I agree. In a federal agency, they are ALWAYS supposed to be prepared for an Inspector General to check their files and their procedures. That doesn't mean everything is always done perfectly, but it does mean:
1) You can within minutes locate all the procedures for what you are supposed to do in certain circumstances.
2) Within hours locate the specific records (such as they are) for what you did or did not do in a particular case.
The idea that you need an entire month to concoct some BS story to "explain away" the difficulty is ludicrous. The judge is reasonable to set a 1 week deadline.
+1
It will happen.
considering how this case has gone, with all the obfuscation from the IRS since the beginning, the Judge should have Held The IRS representative in JAIL until the order is complied with, and lock up every last IRS representative that shows up, until we get some Answers.
On contempt of a house of congress or a felony conviction, these bureaucrats should lose their positions, benefits and pensions.
Every placeman in DC should wonder if his actions will ruin his career and livelihood.
Subpoena the mail server backups.
Apparently they used tape backup, which was only good for 6 months before the tapes were reused.
The interesting thing is the judge wanting affidavits from their IT techs on how the hard drive was disposed of. There are established protocols for dealing with damaged government hard drives and certain forms have to be filled out and actions signed off.
This might lead to a paper trail as to who handled the disposal of the drive, as it was a government hard drive with other government and IRS info on it, some maybe confidential or classified, thereby requiring some attempt to reconstruct the info on that hard drive, not just for the e mails.
Was this done? If not how did Lerner recover the other info on her hard drive? You can’t lose everything on your computer and just pick up business the next day as if nothing happened. There would be years worth of government info that would have to be replicated.
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