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IRS says it lost key Lerner emails Agency blames 2011 hard drive crash for data loss
Washington Times copied onto rightscoopblog ^ | June 13 2014 | By Stephen Dinan, Washington Times writer

Posted on 06/13/2014 1:53:03 PM PDT by PoloSec

I’m gonna just go ahead and say this is nothing but a bunch of HOOEY:

WASHINGTON TIMES – The IRS told Congress on Friday that it has lost some of former employee Lois G. Lerner’s emails, including some covering communications with Democrats in Congress and with other parts of the government, according to the House’s top tax-law writer.

Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said he was stunned that it took more than a year into the investigation for the IRS to inform Congress that it didn’t have those emails.

The agency blamed a computer crash for the mishap.

“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,” Mr. Camp said. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

The IRS is obviously steeped in corruption. If this isn’t an argument to abolish the IRS, I don’t know what is.


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To: PoloSec

Its a lie, how many times have your computer crash but your data is still there


61 posted on 06/13/2014 5:24:12 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: SgtHooper

Mark Levin had some good phone calls about this. People in IT, etc. One guy used to be in gov’t IT. Said that they have numerous servers that are all “mirrored”, not sure exactly what that means, but one server can go down and another one picks up with all the same information and the user won’t even know.

At the end of each day they would download the servers and save to backup. Every week (or maybe month?) they would do a physical download and ship the physical drive to an underground bunker safe from nuclear or EMP blast. He said they have been doing this since the start of the cold war.

You might end up with a day of lost data, maybe even a week if an EMP hit. But with the “cloud” storage, and lack of any recent EMP’s (!) there should be no significant loss of data.


62 posted on 06/13/2014 5:35:51 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts 2013 is 1933 REBORN)
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To: LucianOfSamasota

‘Eric Holder’s Department of Justice WILL investigate, and find not even a smidgeon of corruption.”

Why bother? There _IS_ not even a smidgen of corruption. Therefore, there will be none to find.

Well, another Friday, another sh#$dump...This administration is so full of sh#$, it’s hard to believe that they only take a dump once a week. Their eyeballs must be brownish by Tuesday.


63 posted on 06/13/2014 9:08:43 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: 21twelve

I completely agree with this assessment; this can only be the result of a deliberate action such as the result of a conspiracy. If normal IT controls are in place, more than one person knows about it because it would take more than one person to do it.

The truth WILL come out over all of this either in 2015 or 2017. There isn’t enough money to pay everyone off, and someone will answer to a book deal or magazine offer. There will be hell to pay.


64 posted on 06/13/2014 9:14:43 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: PoloSec

This government is lawless and illegitimate.


65 posted on 06/13/2014 10:03:36 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: 21twelve

A-N-Y-O-N-E who participated in the data destruction, if true, should be charged with treason and dealt with accordingly.


66 posted on 06/14/2014 2:31:44 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: PoloSec
IT Experts Call BS On IRS Claim To Have Lost Lois Lerner Emails
67 posted on 06/15/2014 2:18:15 PM PDT by TennTuxedo
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