uh oh
Because backup tapes are not encrypted -- or, if they are, it's a simple operation to decrypt.
All talk of "decoding" is nonsense.
One of the most intriguing is where she asks one of her employees if they want to do lunch at Red Lobster or Olive Garden. Another is one in which she asks her supervisors if their employees are starting to get excited about the upcoming tax season yet.
Dear Valerie...would be sufficient...
Issa likes the tummy rubs he gets from the 'rats.
"The reason that this reference to Sharyl Attkisson made it into this document dump is that her name was mis-spelled (Sharryl rather than Sharyl). There are assuredly more emails about this that were searched for and deliberately withheld. They apparently did not search for this particular mis-spelling of her name."
Could it be that there are “rogue” elements in the Federal Government that are willing to do their jobs instead of protecting the White House? Let’s hope that is what led to this find.
Of those 30k emails, 20k were ads to give you a bigger, longer lasting boner.
Most of the rest were from some guy trying to get money out of Nigeria.
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.
By the time all this gets done Lerner will be on a permanent vacation in some exotic south seas island in around 2024
“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.
“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.
“Decoding”? What drivel is this
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.
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.
All of Lerner’s letters start out with “My Dear Wormwood”.
Congress should DEMAND a chain of custody of the emails from discovery until final delivery. They should demand the full names of all persons who ‘touched’ or reviewed them, or recommended them. They should all be advised of their rights and responsibilities in a direct session/panel of Congress IMMEDIATELY, and advised of the penalties for violation of the law.
“The federal investigators are from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, which audits the IRS.”
So this is coming from within thE IRS. It’s so nice when you can investigate yourself.
"I don't know how I could have been so careless," said Hiram Zetz, an aid to Holder. "Cracker is usually no trouble at all, except when he sees a member of the Tea Party."
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