Posted on 06/14/2014 7:51:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A veteran IT professional tells TheBlaze that the IRS’ claim that the agency lost two years’ worth of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails is “simply not feasible.”
On Friday, members of Congress revealed that the IRS would not be able to hand over Lerner’s emails to and from other IRS employees from January 2009 to April 2011, possibly due to a “glitch” or “crash.” Lawmakers were seeking the emails as part of their investigation into the IRS targeting scandal.
Norman Cillo, an Army veteran who worked in intelligence and a former program manager at Microsoft, argued it is very difficult to lose emails for good and laid out six reasons why he believes Congress is “being lied to” about the Lerner emails:
1. I believe the government uses Microsoft Exchange for their email servers. They have built-in exchange mail database redundancy. So, unless they did not follow Microsofts recommendations they are telling a falsehood. You can see by the diagram below that if you have three servers in a DAG you have three copies of the database.
2. Every IT organization that I know of has hot swappable disk drives. Every server built since 2000 has them. Meaning that if a single disk goes bad it’s easy to replace.
3. ALL Servers use some form of RAID technology. The only way that data can be totally lost (Meaning difficult to bring back) is if more than a single disk goes before the first bad disk is replaced....
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
The other thing to do, I used to do while investigating, is analyze the firewall logs. Go back and filter those two years and search based on her IP or node name. And report on all SMTP (outgoing email protocol) traffic. This would give them a record of every instance when she sent an outbound email. It would also provide the IP address of the recipient. Then either search the recipient client mailbox (e.g. Obama, Holder) or check server backups and/or offsite of each node’s mailbox. Of course the IRS could say they dont use a firewall. Which would be another lie or crime.
Surely they are still on the drives of the recipients.
Maybe, if they had PST files set up, but not everyone does that.
The disappearance is certainly feasible. It just can’t be accidental.
No modern organization could operate if old emails got "lost".
If the IRS told a corporation to produce emails from 4 years back, to comply with a tax investigation, and were told "sorry, the emails were lost", you can bet that corporate officers would go to jail until the emails were "recovered".
No single “flunky” is likely to have ALL of the domain privileges required to eliminate ALL of the redundant copies of the damning emails. That’s one of the reasons why they do distributed backup.
my dog ate my computer?
my dog ate your computer?
my dog ate my backup?
my dog ate the POP server?
Truth is my dog ate your brain if you believe this BS story from the IRS
I know this is lame but even this stuff would put someone in prison.
17 Free Data Recovery Software Tools
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/filerecovery/tp/free-file-recovery-programs.htm
Now imagine what the pros can do to recover deleted files or missing data.
We see it every day in child porn cases where long ago deleted files are recovered.
Jail everyone involved starting with the top.
Exclude our resident Kenyan who’s name I forgot. He’d just pardon himself even if he couldn’t legally do that.
I like it!
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