Posted on 06/17/2014 1:07:08 PM PDT by chessplayer
The two years of missing emails from the account of Lois Lerner may be a problem for most people but for Lerner, it's just part of life.
"Sometimes, stuff just happens," Lerner wrote to an IT expert in 2011 who was trying to retreive the emails that were lost in her "hard drive crash." And no doubt, she's glad that's true.
In a letter to Congress, the IRS tried to explain the steps they took to retrieve the missing emails.
Washington Times:
In a series of documents sent to Congress on Friday — the traditional day for dumping bad news — the IRS detailed the steps it took to try to account for the emails, including going to other agency employees and asking them to see if they had any messages stored that included Ms. Lerner as a sender of recipient.
And the IRS also released the back-and-forth between Ms. Lerner and Lillie Wilburn, field director for the IRS headquarters’ Customer Support Service Center.
“I checked with the technician, and he still has your drive. He wanted to exhaust all avenues to recover the data before sending it to the ‘hard drive cemetery,’” she wrote on July 20, 2011. “Unfortunately, after receiving assistance from several highly skilled technicians including HP experts, he still cannot recover the data.”
She mentioned “one other possibility” she was trying and promised an update.
Two weeks later, she said the drive had been sent to a forensic lab for a final attempt, and a few days after that Ms. Wilburn delivered the fatal news: “The sectors on your hard drive were bad which made your data unrecoverable.”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Send it to the NSA.
Hard to retrieve info from the hard drive when it’s been dunked in acid and then in concrete.
No one believes this bunch of lying crooks. Can you imagine if this happened during a Republican administration?
Lying pos, these folks need the boot today..
They don’t believe it, their supporters don’t believe it, they don’t expect us to believe it.
This a blatant slap in the face of anyone that would dare to hold government employees accountable.
They need a rope is what they need.
Obama and his people are rancid and evil. Only a fool would believe anything , including economic data, that comes out of this Administration.
No one believes this bunch of lying crooks.
Half the country does. And if they don’t buy the story, they are still elated the WH and IRS are covering up and blocking the investigation.
What an horrible arrogant “person” (wanted to say something else here but I want to keep it G rated, lol).
This is such a huge, huge lie. I’m not an IT guy but I’ve worked on plenty of computers to know I can sign in to check my emails on any computer. The web history may be stored on my hard drive but that’s about it. I can delete that web history but I can go right back to that computer or another computer and access my email. They are telling a monster lie in order to cover for their corruption.
C’mon Boehner, man up!
CGato
Yeah, but it never seems to happen to them, does it?
I won’t pay my taxes until they are found then.
Yeah, you shriveled up old hag! Stuff really happened in 2008 and 2012.
Simple - Get the back up copies from the NSA
Yeah, I really don’t think a majority of Obama supporters believes this excuse.
But the DO support the government/IRS being used to oppress conservatives.
We lost the key to your cell door. Ha - sometimes stuff just happens.
Again this is baloney. Those email aren’t and never were stored on her computer. Another diversion. If there’s one Republican with any integrity who really wants to get to the bottom of this they would call a press conference with IT people and call these people what they are..liars.
Again this is baloney. Those email aren’t and never were stored on her computer. Another diversion. If there’s one Republican with any integrity who really wants to get to the bottom of this they would call a press conference with IT people and call these people what they are..liars.
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