NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
Posted on 06/18/2014 6:19:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hardly anyone accepts the IRS’ claim to have lost two years of Lois Lerner’s emails. Those most familiar with government record retention requirements, and the technology used, probably are the most skeptical.
The supposedly lost emails cover January 2009 to April 2011, the period when Lerner is suspected of targeting conservative groups with heightened and invasive scrutiny. Those emails also pertain to communications Lerner may have had with agencies other than the Internal Revenue Service. That’s key, because many suspect that the Obama White House knew about, and may have coordinated, the targeting. Democrats in Congress including Rep. Elijah Cummings are also under suspicion because they publicly called for the IRS to investigate conservative and Tea Party groups before the IRS did so. Email evidence linking Cummings to Lerner and a plan to have the FBI investigate True the Vote, the Texas-based election integrity group that was targeted by the IRS along with several other executive branch law enforcement agencies, surfaced in April 2014.
A former IRS IT specialist is casting serious doubt on the IRS’ claim to have lost the Lerner emails.
This person worked at the IRS facility in New Carrollton, Maryland.
He worked on the agency’s Prime Systems Integration Services contract, or “Prime,” a contract inked between the IRS and Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 1998 to modernize the IRS’ digital record-keeping system. CSC is the primary contractor, but other well-known companies including IBM, BearingPoint, Northrup Grumman, Unisys and Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) are secondary players on the same contract.
The former IRS IT contractor finds it difficult to believe that the IRS could really have lost two years’ worth of Lois Lerner’s emails.
First, he points to the United States Code for government record retention. That code, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 33, governs what a government record is and requires that agencies must notify the Archivist of any records that are destroyed and the reasons for destroying them. The code was put into place after Iran-Contra to keep government workers and contractors from deleting records.
Section § 3309 states that records “pertaining to claims and demands by or against the Government of the United States or to accounts in which the Government of the United States is concerned, either as debtor or creditor, may not be disposed of by the head of an agency under authorization granted under this chapter, until the claims, demands, and accounts have been settled and adjusted in the General Accounting Office, except upon the written approval of the Comptroller General of the United States.”
“These environments were required by federal regulations to be redundant and recoverable,” the former IRS IT worker says. “The recoverability requirements were put into place for exactly the reasons we see today.” Disposal of records outside the statutory standards requires permission in writing.
He says that the IRS uses Microsoft Outlook/Exchange systems, which are backed up using Symantec NetBackup.
Like stubborn unruly children caught in a lie and incapable of admitting to it.
Issa! get off your Assa!
Start charging the IT people involved with the crime of obstruction and see what evidence they come up with in their defense...
When there are real consequences for witnesses who lie there is hope that we can get some real answers.
The first step in this process is for the House to arrest both Lois Lerner and Eric Holder for contempt of Congress. Until that happens, everything else - especially Congressional “investigations” - is a sad, sad joke.
Has anyone else noticed that most of the top brass at the IRS and the Treasury department are Marxist Jews? These are descendants of the same people who brought us the Soviet Union.
In his book "Righteous Indignation" Andrew Beitbart has a very interesting segment on how Marxist Jews came to the US in the first half of the 20th century and brought with them the same failed ideologies that had devastated Europe.
The Marxist ideology is not compatible with American values as expressed by the Founding Fathers.
Just saying.
NOTHING HAS CHANGED!
If we could get 50 million people to zero their deductions on their W2 forms. Come tax time 2015, file for extension to pay their taxes.
That’s what I was thinking the other day - other countries’ citizens do a “general strike” to protest gov’t malfeasance,
why not here?
Rep Jason Chaffetz(sp) of UT was on Fox & Friends this morning and saying they aren’t buying it. He said the IRS is on Microsoft Outlook and(paraphrasing - he did use “geeks” a few times) we need to get some geeks from Microsoft in here; and, we need geeks.
Also, if you haven’t seen it, Cleta Mitchell (attorney for True the Vote and others and IMHO a terrific one) sent a letter requesting various items and/or answers to same: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3169079/posts
Lawless abusive and out of control... Fits.
It is obviously completely BS.
That they keep repeating it, smugly, is the most galling part.
It’s like children who are caught and yet smirk at you while continuing to lie.
Hell, the Omigabe regime and his flying monkeys have been doing exactly that since day one.
In January, 2009.
Say!
You don't suppose that we could persuade him to...
NAAAAH!
I did vote for him as a write-in earlier this month...
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