Lerner Hard Drive Was "Scratched"

The House Ways and Means Committee ^ | Tuesday, July 22, 2014

[House Atreides]

“The truth will come out.”
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Yes, we’re at the point where judges are bringing in IRS staff and asking questions under oath. Judges who know better than to accept “I don’t know”s and “I can’t recall”s. They’re also calling in IT folks with direct involvement and knowledge of the data storage processes.

In my experience, the IT folks are much more likely to give straight answers and not try to mislead. In other words, we’re getting to the point where the ‘Scheiße’ is going to be hitting the fan — and IRS staff and the Regime know it.

[Red in Blue PA]

Post of the day!

[jonascord]

Recall that presidents have pardoned their underlings prior to them being indicted. I have trouble recalling ANY members of a previous administration being actually tried for crimes committed during that administration. And I date back to Kennedy...

That, above all, justifies a revolution, just to clean things up.

[John Robinson]

That’s my understanding. I once had an active tower fall off a desk, killed the drive (probably a scratch.) Using off-the-shelf recovery software I was able to recover all the data I wanted very easily. My understanding is that unless the drive has catastrophic physical damage (siezed mechanics, fried circuitry) then it is recoverable to great extent via software alone, and moreso by just the typical power user.

Obviously somebody didn’t want these files.

This level of corruption and the cover-up is frightening. And it’s only one front among many.

[rolling_stone]

see Richard m. nixon

[Cheerio]

And the other seven were "scratched" in the same manner in the same time frame?

Why do Americans believe one word coming from this Chicago thug Administration?

[Cheerio]

Someone must have broken into her office during the night to remove and scratch the hard drive,

Oh you mean like the Watergate burglars?

[McGruff]

Good to see our senior tech support guy give his professional input. There will probably be alot of hard drive failures in the near future.

[henbane]

[sgtyork]

Had a former coworker remove a laptop hard drive and substitute another one. Big company had forensic IT staff that detected it. Hope Gowdy has a bunch of really smart techies to tear a new ass on this.

[SSS Two]

Remember the purported email exchange between Lerner and the IRS tech working to retrieve her "personal files"? The one where the tech told Lerner that nothing could be retrieved despite all their hard work?

This story is almost enough to make me question whether those emails were fabricated.

[House Atreides]

“And the other seven were “scratched” in the same manner in the same time frame?...”
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Well perhaps the IRS has a mouse infestation or an infestation of ‘RATS that needs to be extirpated?

[kiryandil]

Elegant solution.

[kiryandil]

Why all the focus on hard drives? To mislead everyone away from the fact all email traffic is primarily stored on mail servers and archived?

It's revenge for the computer geeks treating the journalist students like the double-digit IQ retards that they are...

[Fledermaus]

I was using that crap in the mid 80’s. It takes lots of space to store and you have to deal with idiots that can’t label them. But why they still doing that? lol

[Fledermaus]

I don’t get it. Maybe I’m too old and tapes to me are these large, round things you put a plastic cover around and stickers for ID you have log.

Small, dat types in a server I understand. Had those in my safe in a big hotel. But now with massive digital servers and backup sites, etc. makes no sense.

[kiryandil]

HOWEVER, FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVES (Lois Lerner’s position) the limit was HUGE.

Also, SENIOR EXECUTIVES are usually "of a certain age", as I delicately put it, and have to be taken care like small children when it comes to computer stuff.

Simply put, most of their generation cannot handle computer logic and do not have "computer intuition", which is possessed by their successors, the Video Children.

They're important, so they have "people" for that.

[MeshugeMikey]

with barack Obama as Boss.they HAVE tried to sell us almost anything

[Flying Circus]

Why are we still going on and on about a stupid hard drive? That hard drive is unimportant. What matters is where are the network and tape backups should have copies of ever single piece of IRS email traffic going back several years? That is the scandal here... The IRS appears to have destroyed or hidden vast amounts of mission critical data!

[FreedomPoster]

Also, the same sort of thing applies to the IT staff at IRS. Right now, anyone who has them on their resume is in a bad place. Would you hire them?