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Federal watchdogs uncover thousands of lost Lerner emails, decoding to take weeks
Fox News ^ | 11/22/14

Posted on 11/22/2014 7:16:04 AM PST by Enlightened1

As many as 30,000 lost emails from Lois Lerner -- the ex-IRS official at the center of the agency's targeting scandal -- have been recovered by federal investigators.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emails; gettherope; impeachnow; irs; loislerner; recovered
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To: Chode

Timing-after the election?


21 posted on 11/22/2014 7:42:19 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: wtd

Save


22 posted on 11/22/2014 7:44:00 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: InterceptPoint

Don’t get your hopes up. It will take IRS lawyers many months to review the emails. Did anyone look at this week’s batch of Fast and Furious documents pried loose by Judicial Watch? Many, many pages of redactions. That’s what government lawyers do.

Even before you get into bogus executive privilege claims or outright shenanigans supporting political coverups, those emails could contain private taxpayer info and no judge would disallow an IRS request for an internal review prior to turning them over.

Political operatives and IRS lawyers (but I repeat myself), have calculated yesterday’s release would allow enough delay to get past November 2016.


23 posted on 11/22/2014 7:46:59 AM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: Enlightened1; All
lost?.. deliberately hidden, mis-labeled.

24 posted on 11/22/2014 7:47:22 AM PST by skinkinthegrass ("Bathhouse" E'Bola/0'Boehmer/0'McConnell; all STINK and their best friends are flies. d8^)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There’s no decoding. You have the back-up tape....you reinstall it onto a harddrive, and the pst is sitting right there. Probably a one-hour job at best.

What you don’t want to do is corrupt the pst file, and I think that’s why they are going real slow.

For Lerner, I’d start to get worried, call my DNC source and ask what the President is going to do. I’d say by early January, the House will know the full contents and know who it was at the WH giving the directions. It’s going to be a very unpleasant holiday season for some.

Finally, a funny note for the IT guys at the IRS. All this denial and attempt to keep saying it’s lost....I’d start looking for a new profession. Maybe call up the bait and tackle guys in Florida and see if you can get hired up for the clerk’s job.


25 posted on 11/22/2014 7:49:07 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Enlightened1

If Issa is truly interested in the truth, and I’m not sure that he is, he will make sure that these investigators are clean as the wind driven snow and convince real Americans that it is so.


26 posted on 11/22/2014 7:50:13 AM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Enlightened1

By the time all this gets done Lerner will be on a permanent vacation in some exotic south seas island in around 2024


27 posted on 11/22/2014 7:51:28 AM PST by Logical me
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To: pepsionice
I agree with everything you said.

And on this point:
What you don’t want to do is corrupt the pst file, and I think that’s why they are going real slow.

It's true. You want to be careful here. That might make it (possibly) a two hour job -- though, honestly, I can't see how: it's realistically a 5 minute job. I do it all the time.

They are saying this will take weeks. There is no GOOD reason for them to say that.

28 posted on 11/22/2014 7:52:50 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: Enlightened1

“Decoding to take weeks.”

That means they’re redacting everything important.

And why are the emails on tapes? Those can very easily be ruined.

Then again, if the government was honest, they would have their own backups in probably 5 locations around the country, including contracting with a few for added redundancy.


29 posted on 11/22/2014 7:54:27 AM PST by wastedyears (I may be stupid, but at least I'm not Darwin Awards stupid.)
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To: Enlightened1

“decoding could take weeks”

Complete nonsense. Any compression algorithm of the backup is well known, so “decoding” should take a few milliseconds, not a few weeks.

This is just more typical obfuscation and foot-dragging from the Obammunist administration. The REAL reason this will take weeks is so the Obammunists can scrub all of the damaging emails.

If Congress had any balls, they’d demand the raw data be turned over to a select committee and let THEM redact any emails with personal data. Without that, Congress will just end up with sanitized pablum.


30 posted on 11/22/2014 7:58:21 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Enlightened1

“Decoding”? What drivel is this


31 posted on 11/22/2014 7:58:31 AM PST by Ray76 (When Obama speaks he speaks as the leader of a foreign invasion.)
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To: Enlightened1

The emails were on a server. They are still on it or backed up. Either way when they were processed by the server and live on the server they were sent to the email CLIENT on whatever clients Lerner was using. She could have had one office machine, a machine at home, a tables, a laptop and phones. All these devices were receiving COPIES of the emails from the server or servers that handled the email traffic. On US government client computers she would not have had the option of setting any of her email clients to delete messages on the US government server. Even if she was able to set the client to only maintain emails for “X” number of days the server would not respond. All the emails are saved and all of them are backed up under law. Her office computer hard drive may have crashed, caught on fire or jumped in a lake. So what! That computer had zero to do with serving emails. Zero!

All “her” email data is there and has always been there.


32 posted on 11/22/2014 7:59:03 AM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Six years ago, my boss was backing up his HD at the office (AF unit) and we had a power flux....next thing we know....the back-up stops, and his entire PST was screwed up. Five years of messages gone. The back-up? We went to it and for some reason, the drive was corrupted.

Last year as I was leaving my gov’t job....I was in the midst of backing up my PST, which was way over the recommended size of ‘safety’. In essence, my backup went wrong, and I had to resort to a back-up from six months prior. The PST business is not a stable platform, in my opinion.


33 posted on 11/22/2014 8:01:02 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Sacajaweau
Yeh....she’s a real computer genius. Who knew??

Actually, encrypting outgoing email is automatic if the proper plugin is enabled on your email client...like Voltage for MS Outlook.

34 posted on 11/22/2014 8:01:54 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are not inclined to commit crimes.)
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To: Suz in AZ
Watch the cya and finger pointing begin.

I have watched very little of the hearings, but from the start it looked like Lerner was cya months and months or was it years ago.

35 posted on 11/22/2014 8:03:49 AM PST by TYVets
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To: Enlightened1

Gee, just after the 2014 elections and two years before the 2016 elections. Whoda thunk?!

I just hope the emails have not been scrubbed. And I hope they contain enough details to get Lois Lerner and others convicted of criminal activity AND they generate enough rage to do away with the Internal Revenue Service.


36 posted on 11/22/2014 8:05:43 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Have a wonderful day!)
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To: pepsionice
The back-up? We went to it and for some reason, the drive was corrupted.

Five years of email gone?
You went to THE backup??
You made a single backup in 5 years -- and re-writing over and over and over on the same backup file?

You know, it's a good practice to make frequent backups and have each one uniquely and sequentially identified so that if you lose one, you can go to another backup. You might (possibly) lose some information -- but losing 5 years of email because a single file had a problem? Ever consider RAID for reliability?

37 posted on 11/22/2014 8:08:46 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yes. These emails are without question scrubbed. It takes a few months to comb through 30k inbox/sent/trash files.


38 posted on 11/22/2014 8:18:42 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
100%
39 posted on 11/22/2014 8:18:55 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Enlightened1

All of Lerner’s letters start out with “My Dear Wormwood”.


40 posted on 11/22/2014 8:20:55 AM PST by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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