Lerner e-mails likely gone forever, IRS claims, as hard drive was “thrown away”

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[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.

[blueunicorn6]

Evidently, the bought and paid-for American Press thinks a hard drive is Highway 101.

[Cheerio]

Any other agency, or another branch like Congress, that received her emails will have copies that are NOT stored on the IRS server. I would find it almost impossible to believe that the IRS servers were not in a RAID configuration and would have been backed up. UNLESS of course the emails were deliberately DELETED. I am not buying any of that crap that the HD crashed and was destroyed. A RAID 10 configuration has four HDs with mirroring and stripping of the first two, and the odds of both of these HDs crashing together would be astronomical, and both being REFORMATTED or DESTROYED are beyond mathematical estimation.

When the GOP grows a pair I might become interested otherwise this is a huge yawn just like F&F, Obamacare Lies, Ben Gazzi, Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Declaring Congress in Recess, Trading a US Military Deserter for 5 Terrorist Generals, and on into Ad infinitum (without end or limit ).

Why hasn't the House called in the contractors that are responsible for the IRS IT? Surely the IRS is not performing their own technical install and maintenance on their IT equipment........or are they?

[Darksheare]

LOL.
Coffee instead?

[ApplegateRanch]

Start looking in the accounts of likely recipients for any and all emails received from her.

[Proud2BeRight]

“This cannot stand.”

But it will stand just like all Obama’s scandals.

[chessplayer]

“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.”

Those have likely been removed from the servers too.

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Yup. That may be why we haven’t seen a rush of experts coming out and saying the emails are recoverable.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

I thought you WERE talking about coffee....
[sly, sheepish grin]

[Darksheare]

LOL.
Maybe “coffee with cutting fluid” added?
[I hear tell that Jack goes well in my coffee. I wouldn’t know.]

[Flick Lives]

When was it thrown away? Let me guess. There is no record of when.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Jameson’s.
The question is: why ruin a good American (bourbon) whisky when a mealy “British Isle” whisky is available?

BTW, I’m Scots/Welsh/Irish background and I can’t swallow the “peat-moss” whisky of any those ancestors.

[The Duke]

This is the lamest excuse that I've ever heard. If you believe that the IRS doesn't have a state-of-the-art email archival system in place then I've got a bridge I'd like to see you.

And if you believe they don't do backups of their emails then I've got TWO BRIDGES I'd like to sell you!

[Verginius Rufus]

The FBI is part of the Department of Justice...so presumably Holder will be able to prevent the FBI recovering the evidence.

Maybe they remember people saying that Nixon should have burned the White House tapes. If the emails are gone for good it's because they were deliberately destroyed, meaning there was incriminating evidence in them. It also means that Obama is confident that he can get away with destroying the evidence.

[Verginius Rufus]

The FBI is part of the Department of Justice...so presumably Holder will be able to prevent the FBI recovering the evidence.

Maybe they remember people saying that Nixon should have burned the White House tapes. If the emails are gone for good it's because they were deliberately destroyed, meaning there was incriminating evidence in them. It also means that Obama is confident that he can get away with destroying the evidence.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

There are copies somewhere, I know there are. The very fact that this is being put forward as an excuse is enough for prosecution.

[Darksheare]

LOL.
Telling the truth, I don’t drink.
I inherited a nasty resistance to stuff, so it takes a bit more for me to have the same effect.
So it becomes a pointless exercise for me.
So it is merely coffee for me.

[bikerman]

What next, sold to China?

No it was on the missing Malaysian flight.