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IRS gives full account of lost Lerner emails
Politico ^ | July 18, 2014 | Rachael Bade

Posted on 07/19/2014 10:41:07 AM PDT by Innovative

The IRS declared under oath and penalty of perjury on Friday that Lois Lerner’s hard drive is irrecoverable after being wiped clean by tech staff and recycled with an outside contractor, according to a court filing.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: computers; computerservers; data; howtostealanelection; irs; israel; lerner; lostemails; obama; partisanwitchhunt; smidgen; teaparty; truethevote
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Why is the news media keep reporting it this way, ignoring the FACT that emails are NOT stored on people's personal computers but on servers which are also backed up.

Your computer can crash, but your emails are safe on the servers.

Why isn't someone looking on the servers?

The nonsense that they are only kept for six months on the servers at the IRS is beyond ridiculous.

We have to keep our tax returns for seven YEARS and they only keep emails for six months?!

Why aren't Republicans and Fox News shows, not to mention CONGRESS, pointing out this painfully obvious FACT?

We shouldn't care about her hard drive at all.

Not to mention that hard drives are also backed up daily -- everything on the hard drive can be recovered immediately from the servers.

1 posted on 07/19/2014 10:41:07 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative
The only question left is "Who gets to go to jail?"
2 posted on 07/19/2014 10:42:30 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Innovative

‘Why is the news media keep reporting it this way, ignoring the FACT that emails are NOT stored on people’s personal computers but on servers which are also backed up.”


Excellent point and beats the poop out of me. Of course, IRS emails may only be stored on the hard drives, they are insular, but your point is VERY well taken.


3 posted on 07/19/2014 10:43:11 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
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To: Innovative

“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” ~ Voltaire


4 posted on 07/19/2014 10:43:34 AM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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To: Innovative

no more taxes then.
why should we pay for incompetence?


5 posted on 07/19/2014 10:44:36 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: RIghtwardHo

The media thinks by reporting the facts prematurely they kill the story ignoring the facts that impeding the facts pisses us off!


6 posted on 07/19/2014 10:45:21 AM PDT by sr4402
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To: Innovative

“IRS gives full account of lost Lerner emails. Yeah, that’s the ticket,” said Tommy Flanagan, IRS spokesman in his first gig since appearing as the Pathological Liar on SNL.


7 posted on 07/19/2014 10:45:24 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: RIghtwardHo; Innovative
Plausable deniability.

I once told my (then) 9 or 10 yr old son to pick up your room ...

He DID ...

and put it all under the bed and in the closet

8 posted on 07/19/2014 10:45:24 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More than one person better see Prison over this.


9 posted on 07/19/2014 10:45:35 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ll take “nobody” for $1000, Alex.


10 posted on 07/19/2014 10:45:54 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Innovative

If they can’t even say for sure where their equipment is, how can they say for sure where their data is, or isn’t?


11 posted on 07/19/2014 10:46:11 AM PDT by tacticalogic
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“IRS emails may only be stored on the hard drives”

Be serious!

Even before the 9-11 attacks, emails of all companies and government are backed up. This increased significantly to the point of having them backed up in multiple geographically different locations as well — and especially for major government organizations, such as the IRS!


12 posted on 07/19/2014 10:46:50 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: null and void

Fitting quote.....the later part is coming...


13 posted on 07/19/2014 10:47:30 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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The IRS should be judged by it’s own rules.

If I declared my hard drive lost or irrevocably damaged, the IRS would deem me to be guilty of the worst case scenario tax exposure wise.

I say judge those closest to the hard drive fiasco to be guilty of the worst case scenario crime wise.

We need to defund the IRS. Come up with an alternative way of collecting taxes that doesn’t require 97.5% of the IRS staff, implement it, and be done with it.


14 posted on 07/19/2014 10:47:33 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Think how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are stupider than that.)
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To: Innovative

Obviously, because they have been told that these emails are not to become public. One excuse is as good as another...


15 posted on 07/19/2014 10:47:50 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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IRS gives full account of lost Lerner emails

Yeah, that's the ticket ...

16 posted on 07/19/2014 10:48:18 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I heard an IT guy on FOX say that all these IRS people also had Blackberries that would have contained the same emails.


17 posted on 07/19/2014 10:48:25 AM PDT by Eva
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To: MaxMax

The penalty must be death for crimes agains the Republic


18 posted on 07/19/2014 10:48:33 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Innovative

Are they admitting they have her old drive?

If so, they are lying about it being irecoverable.

If it is irrecoverable they De-Mil’d the drive.

That is, it was written over at least 7 times using various methods.


19 posted on 07/19/2014 10:48:58 AM 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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“We smashed it and the others up good”

They need to Stalinsplain the effort by Ms. Lerner to skirt transparency in this matter by seeking instant messaging (and other?) non-archived means of communication.

The EPA is on record illegally using private email accounts to conspire against political enemies.

How about the IRS?


20 posted on 07/19/2014 10:49:18 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Elian Gonzalez sought asylum and was sent back to Cuba, send these kids back to THEIR parents.)
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