Posted on 06/19/2014 8:15:20 AM PDT by chessplayer
The IRS announced last night — after a subpoena from House Oversight chair Darrell Issa — that Lois Lerner’s hard drive had been either “thrown away” or recycled, which means at least for the moment that none of her interagency e-mails can be recovered:
“IT experts have weighed in and said yes — we can get those” emails, said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) earlier Wednesday.
The latest news suggests such professionals may never get the chance to try again — and the IRS has even said its criminal investigators who specialize in rebuilding hard drives to recover hidden information from criminals were unable to restore the data back in 2011. But this is only likely to further enrage Republicans, who are fuming over the matter and suspect Washington officials drove the selective scrutiny.
Without backups or the drives, those communications have been lost. Unless Lerner testifies, which she has so far refused to do, or unless the House subpoenas all executive-branch e-mails, they’re likely lost forever.
They are making fools out of this nation of fools.
Nixon was told to burn his White House recordings. He should have.
Watergate pales in insignificance compared to this in-your-face democrat crooks.
The email data, by law, is required to be backed up on redundant servers, and has been, for years.
This admin. doesn’t follow the law.
Your move I$$A. CONgre$$ and the IR$ GE$TAPO. We pay these deceivers…why?
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security
Check$ and Balance$ BUMP! $ee $omething, $ay $omething ALERT!
Yeah, that's the ticket!
The hard drive isn’t the issue.
If Person A sends an e-mail to Person B in another company, then the e-mail can be recovered from:
Person A’s computer.
Company A’s server.
Company A’s backup of Person A’s e-mail box.
Company A’s backup of Company A’s server.
E-mail server nodes along the way of transfer from Company A to Company B.
Backups of e-mail server nodes along the way of transfer from Company A to Company B.
Person B’s computer.
Company B’s server.
Company B’s backup of Person B’s e-mail box.
Company B’s backup of Company B’s server.
This idea that somehow an e-mail can be completely lost is ludicrous and any politician who claims it should lose their job for basic stupidity.
As I posted in an earlier thread, the IRS now claims multiple email accounts are gone, 5-6 people in different offices at the IRS. These were all stored on a single hard drive without RAID redundancy in 2009-11? Is this anywhere in a light year of possible?
This odor is ordure!
EXACTLY
You would use the law to oppose socialism? But it is upon the law that socialism itself relies. Socialists desire to practice legal plunder, not illegal plunder. Socialists, like all other monopolists, desire to make the law their own weapon. And when once the law is on the side of socialism, how can it be used against socialism? For when plunder is abetted by the law, it does not fear your courts, your gendarmes, and your prisons. Rather, it may call upon them for help.
/Bastiat
I cringe when I see “incompetent” still used to describe BO. It’s exactly the opposite! He has been deliberate in tearing down our country. He told us what he was going to do and he’s done a damn good job!
40+ percent underclass takers who only care about the free stuff they can get.
“Lerner emails likely gone forever”
Reminds me of Hillary saying disappointedly “We’ll probably never know what happended to Vince Foster” (so let’s drop it)
I hear ya,, his minions are incompetent and drones, he is conniving, a imam on a mission.
BREAKING NEWS: This just in... the hard drive has been FOUND!
It is somewhere near the Brooklyn Bridge. Don’t know where on the bridge, but now that we know this, we just have to buy the bridge.
Great news! The lost/recycled/thrown-out hard drive with Lerner emails is on the Brooklyn Bridge!
Too bad Romney is such a weak personality, he could’ve stuck with his 47% argument and done just fine
Behind the copier at the Los Alamos Labs.
-PJ
It does not matter if the hard drives were thrown away. The emails will be found on the servers. They don’t throw those away.
What bothers me about that is that there hasn’t been a flood of computer experts claiming they can still be recovered. That tells me they CAN’T be recovered.
This so much bullsh!t that you could fertilize the entire continent of Asia’s fields for decades..................
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