they lost two years of BACKUPS TOO???
Posted on 06/13/2014 3:00:12 PM PDT by smoothsailing
June 13, 2014
The IRS has informed the House Ways and Means Committee that it has lost Lois Lerner email messages from January 2009–April 2011. Harkening back to the allegedly accidental erasure of 18 1/2 minutes of critical Oval Office recordings that contributed to Richard Nixon’s resignation from office, the IRS attributes the loss of Lerner email to a computer crash.
Some email survives: the agency retains Lerner email to and from other IRS employees during this period. The IRS claims it cannot produce email written only to or from Lerner and outside agencies or groups, such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or offices of Democrat congressmen. Funny how that works.
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp has issued the following statement, which seems to me short of the harsher indictment that is warranted at this point:
The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to Congressional inquiries. There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.
Just a short time ago, Commissioner Koskinen promised to produce all Lerner documents. It appears now that was an empty promise. Frankly, these are the critical years of the targeting of conservative groups that could explain who knew what when, and what, if any, coordination there was between agencies. Instead, because of this loss of documents, we are conveniently left to believe that Lois Lerner acted alone.
This failure of the IRS requires the White House, which promised to get to the bottom of this, to do an Administration-wide search and production of any emails to or from Lois Lerner. The Administration has repeatedly referred us back to the IRS for production of materials. It is clear that is wholly insufficient when it comes to determining the full scope of the violation of taxpayer rights.
Reminder: The charge that Richard Nixon “endeavored” to misuse the IRS made its way into the second of the three articles of impeachment voted against him by the House Judiciary Committee. Nixon’s efforts to misuse the IRS were futile. They went nowhere. Nixon and his henchmen desired the IRS to “screw” their political opponents, but their efforts were a pathetic failure.
Nixon henchman Jack Caulfield astutely complained that the IRS was a “monstrous bureaucracy…dominated and controlled by Democrats.” As we have come to see, Caulfield was on to something. By contrast with Nixon’s failures to misuse the IRS, the IRS has very effectively “screwed” Obama’s political opponents, and we have yet to learn what the president knew and when he knew it.
Nothing is lost. I assure you there is a backup copy around. I worked in the business long enough to not fall for this BS.
The fact that they’re throwing out such an obvious lie shows you their contempt for us - AND CONGRESS.
Hard drive crashed = the dog ate my homework.
they lost two years of BACKUPS TOO???
2 yrs of data lost means the crash/deletion was recent. So there definitely are backups for most if not almost all of that data. Also, the hardware failure would have generated a trail documenting the failure and replacement of the hardware, and likely data restore to the failed disk.
This is a very obvious and transparent lie.
Congress must imprison these Lerner.
This is an administration of liars. They were able to produce other Lerner emails before, and the hard drives are not segregated by person, so who else's emails are lost?
I bet that none are really lost. I bet that the Obama administration is lying even now, and that the emails are still there, or at worst are recoverable from back-ups.
-PJ
I would like to know who did this, too. It would take a SysAdmin for sure. There’s no way Lerner had access or the knowledge of how to do this.
Fox? ABC? Reuters? AP? NBC? CBS? NY Times? Washington Post? Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?
They need to prove that this ‘crash’ occurred. Absent that, the messages were deleted.
This is destruction of evidence. Evidence which Congress subpoenaed. Congress has imprisoned people for exactly this crime.
Their lies are so bold that I don’t think they even care if they are believed. They say it so it is fact and Congress has shown that it is unwilling to make them tell the truth and comply with subpoenas. The DOJ is corrupt, so any muscle like the FBI will be neutered or used to further the cover-up. If Congress does not confront the growing Imperial Presidency, they will soon discover they are no longer needed except for ceremonial purposes.
I imagine a systems auditor who was even halfway competent could find out exactly what happened.
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They can trace this back....if they want to. There are so many severs & backup systems that the chance of these emails being lost is almost impossible.
all the agencies I worked with had email servers routing the data. those servers were all backed up. nothing was lost. IT contracts supporting the systems are very lucrative ... they can’t expect us to believe none of those systems were backed up
let’s get the name of the IT support company. let’s give them a chance to cough up the backups or be banished from govt contracting indefinitely
I know, it’ll never happen. dems don’t follow the law and no one cares.
which begs the question, why do the rest of us follow their laws if they don’t?
Oh, this is a good point.
“I’d be outraged, but my outrager is plum tuckered out.”
Ha. Mine too.
Paul Sperry of WorldNetDaily reported on missing White House emails of Al Gore and how the entire email archive process was tainted during the Clinton-Gore campaign financing scandal investigations.
The Democrat party was always a criminal and corrupt organization.
-PJ
Yup.....this is a middle finger to congress. Let’s see if they respond.
Wouldn’t the IT company have to be a public record since taxpayer dollars are paying them?
Since spending and funding originate in the House, it sure seems like Republicans have the upper hand and the dems lack the votes to stop them. If the Republicans don’t get to the bottom of this then they’re part of a coverup and a crime.
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