[chessplayer]

Thats it, folks. Ball games over. The One wins again,,,as expected.

[IYAS9YAS]

Thats it, folks. Ball games over. The One wins again,,,as expected.

Keep calling your Reps. The email data, by law, is required to be backed up on redundant servers, and has been, for years. Her computer is not even an issue in this farce.

[Darksheare]

First it was crashed.
Then reused, now it is “thrown away”.
What next, sold to China?
Found in the bottom of a White House closet with Rose Law Firm records that have curiously been scrubbed?

[NormsRevenge]

Much as the Constitution under Obama..

Shredded .. Tossed..
And like leftist rhetoric, recycled.

By the most corrupt incompetent agenda driven adminstration uhhh regime ever.

[Salvavida]

Turn the drives over to the FBI. Send a FBI IT tech over to discover their data backup.

I used to work for the federal government: they are not completely gone.

[Kenny]

If heads start rolling, any IT staff who didn’t backup according to law gets fired, there’s a chance someone down the chain won’t think it’s worth it.

[themidnightskulker]

Dibs on the burning torches and pitchfork concession.

[El Cid]

That's OK.
Who is going to jail?
If the same thing happened in an American corporation while faced with insider trading charges, or patent lawsuit, or some government infraction - at least a few people would be facing prison time. So who is going to jail?

[AU72]

A war-time House would stop all IRS paychecks until the emails showed up.

[Leaning Right]

I just learned a valuable technique here:

IRS agent: Mr. Leaning Right, you claimed over two billion dollars in work-related deductions last year. Where is the evidence to back that up?

Me: It was on my hard drive, but the drive crashed. I of course didn't back anything up.

IRS agent: You had better get a computer expert to recover that data, and you had better do it fast.

Me: But I threw the hard drive away.

IRS agent: No problem then. Your tax return is accepted. Have a nice day.

[PGR88]

IRS to America: “Uh, yeah. The files were lost, no they were thrown away. Also - screw you.”

[christx30]

If the average American citizen tried that crap with the IRS, they would be crushed painfully. That’s why you see people scrambling to find 6 year old receipts in a shoebox. “Sorry. Lost that stuff. You can’t do anything” simply will not fly with the IRS. Why should they get a pass when the situation is reversed?

[txrefugee]

Okay….doesn’t the federal government have a cyber security company hired to prevent this scenario from happening? Issa needs to call them in and see why they didn’t stop this taxpayer-funded security breech from occurring. It’s their job.

[Reddy]

I went over to the DUmp (gag) to see what they are saying about the destruction of evidence. Aside from some small posts a few days ago (defending the loss of data as usual and customary)...

Crickets.

They need to change the site name to hypocrite underground.

[ArcadeQuarters]

> 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

How often does a crash erase/overwrite an entire hard drive? I can understand a few sectors but the whole thing? Seems that would take intentional effort and time.

[MtnMan101]

[chris37]

They are making fools out of this nation of fools.

[PGalt]

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!

[mmichaels1970]

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.

Bull....I have had several hard drive crashes that I have sent out for data recovery...to the point where the drives where clicking. I've never had under a 95% recovery rate. The fact that the IRS is claiming they got a 0% recovery from someone in Lerner's position is almost impossible unless her crash was the result of somebody taking a sledgehammer to her hard drive.

When a hard drive really crashes it is usually a result of things like the motor, board or other parts that serve to spin the platter itself. In most cases not involving actual physical damage, the platter remains intact while the motor around it fails. This provides you with the opportunity to remove the platter, place it in a new drive enclosure, and pull the old data off onto an external drive.

This can all be done in the private sector for about $1800.

Now, even if the drive were considered "unrecoverable" at the time, the fact that historical and public information had been stored there would be enough to at least merit holding onto the damaged drive in case advances in technology would one day allow the data to be recovered. They conveniently threw the drive away. This is a coverup.

[SES1066]

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!

[1Old Pro]

“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)