Posted on 06/17/2014 5:46:01 AM PDT by don-o
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service commissioner will testify before two House committees next week about the agency’s disclosure that it lost thousands of emails sought by investigators looking into accusations of politically motivated misconduct by the agency, the committees said Monday.
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Mr. Koskinen is scheduled to appear before Mr. Issa’s committee on Monday night and, voluntarily, before the Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. The Ways and Means chairman, Representative Dave Camp, Republican of Michigan, wrote a letter to President Obama on Monday asking for “all communications between Lois Lerner and any persons with the executive office of the president” for the period between
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I sure hope they have the House sargeant at arms - with his sidearm - ready to put him in a cell under the House.
Start jailing the IT guys for failure to properly keep government records until one of them starts cooperating.
Agree. Corporations have been shuttered for less.
But ONLY after you have made a”Statement”Protesting Your”INNOCENCE”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It sounds so wistful, doesn’t it?
“The Lost Emails of Lois Lerner”...if only Hitchcock were still alive and making films.
The GESTAPO lady lost emails? Where’s NSA? What are we paying these criminals for?
I agree - nobody has ever won a battle by starting off with the assumption that they’re going to lose and, furthermore, spreading this among the rest of the troops. And the commanders...
If IRS IT can’t produce backups, fire them; they’re incompetent.
If the backups are subsequently produced, prosecute them for obstruction; they’re also corrupt.
I cannot recall Ronald Reagan leading us with the loser mentality that SO many on this board wallow in.
Not enough.
Step up the pace. Proceed on multiple fronts.
Arrest and imprison Lerner
Subpoena all emails from the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices to Lerner, her assistants, staff, associates, underlings, etc.
Subpoena the IT persons/contractors responsible for a) the e-mail infrastructure, b) Disaster Recovery, and c) hardware support & maintenance
The IRS Commissioner? What a waste of time! They need to bring in the IRS officially designated “Records Management Officer” (they’re REQUIRED to have that position) who heads up the IRS Records Management office. In addition the Records Management Officer IT counterparts responsible for carrying out the Records Management office’s archival responsibilities.
The IRS is LYING and, sadly, EVERYONE knows it but NO ONE is holding them accountable. They need to be tried and imprisoned—and, most importantly, have their individual benefits and pension plans cancelled. These are people AT WAR with most of the American population.
So what if backups are only kept six months?
The drive fails, a new drive is installed, data is restored. Bam. Done. Did Lerner go without a drive for two years? Of course not.
Don’t fall for the diversionary nonsense they spout as they drag you into the weeds.
Because there IS a limit to how much can be stored on the client side PC. Last place I worked, we would get notices from corporate when we were nearing our limit.
Yet they require us to keep 7 years worth of recors...
The Sarbanes – Oxley Act, SEC 17CFR, section 210.2-06, requires that work papers and other documents that form the basis of an audit or review, including memos, correspondence and e-mail which contain opinions, analysis or financial data, including those that are inconsistent with the auditor’s final opinion, be retained for a period of 7 years.
According to what they’re saying, the backup tapes are on a six month rotation. When a backup is performed everything is saved, it is a snapshot as of that time. That snapshot will be available for six months. So in June, January’s snapshot is the oldest available. In July, February’s snapshot is the oldest available. And so forth.
When her drive failed it presumably contained all the “lost” email. To illustrate, let’s say her drive failed in January. They have until June to replace her drive and restore the data.
It is impossible to believe that Lerner went without her computer being repaired for six months.
But, restoring six months back to her client PC does not deal with the client storage limits.
ISTM the important thing is the claim that only six months at a time is preserved. That is mind boggling.
Is it client storage limit or server storage limit? I am not 100% certain but I think it was server storage limit. I’ll have to look into that.
What I read was that client side had a 150Mb limit that was increased to 500.
Century Link gives me 1 Gb.
>> Because there IS a limit to how much can be stored on the client side PC. Last place I worked, we would get notices from corporate when we were nearing our limit.
Are you sure about that? That sounds more like a server limit. If you were keeping email on your client the storage limit would be determined by your disk capacity. This would vary from one machine to the next and most machines have large capacity drives. The machine I’m using now is about 7 or 8 years old and it came with an 80GB drive.
What is Century Link?
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