Posted on 06/21/2014 2:21:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it can't provide emails sent between 2009 and 2011 that were requested by congressional investigators because of hard drive crashes.
The agency said that emails stored on dead drives were lost forever because its email backup tapes were recycled every six months, and employees were responsible for keeping their own long-term archives.
The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005, according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for "automatic data processing services." Sonasoft's motto is "email archiving done right," and the company lists the IRS as a customer.
In 2009, Sonasoft even sent out a Tweet advertising its work for the IRS...
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
....Somebody just needs to bring a can opener...
Then open the jumbo can of whoopass
No limit to WH tampering more to ensue.
It’s not a strategy, it’s the truth.The Republican party is unwilling to use it’s power as the majority party in the House to stop this in your face lawlessness. Just facing reality.
oh and is the best route to see where Congress stands as a whole and to determine if all is lost ....
Exactly what I’ve been saying. The hard drive was destroyed because it contained damaging evidence. But this is a distraction now. These were the keystone cops thinking people wouldn’t understand how client server networking functions, i.e. data resides on servers. But stop fishing in the dried up pond. The fish are in the big lake - the backend of the network (servers, routers, firewalls, offsite). By focusing on a hard drive that no longer exists, they are allowing the criminals to cover up even more evidence. In the end, though, it will be impossible for them to cover their tracks, despite the GOP’s ineptness, as emails are the easiest of all data to recover. They just touch too many points of the infrastructure, from internal switches and routers to servers and firewalls, over to same devices on recipients network before arriving in a mailbox, which is also backed up and archived.
Time to get the Sonasoft people on the stand, making sure they know that destroying critical evidence is obstruction of justice and they are on the low end of the totem pole so if they don’t tell who told them to get rid of the data they WILL go to jail for having done it on their own, even if it makes a mockery of equal protection because Lois Lerner has already been determined, concerning contempt of Congress, to be “guilty as Hell, free as a bird. What a country!” (as Bill Ayers would say...)
She made $26,724 per minute not per hour. Let’s not sell this talented news presenter short.
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If adjusted for the fact that a TV hour is typically 42 minutes that makes her hourly $38,177.14
Send your suggestions to Trey Gowdy or Louie Gohmert or another like-minded, liberty loving congressman/woman! There are some good “fixes” in the conversation on this thread!
5. Unless Lerner was running a mail server locally on her laptop (highly doubtful) a hard drive crash would never result in loss of email in an exchange server environment.
Approx. 2005 my work hard drive crashed. IT Dude with an attitude scolded me for setting my box on its side, not flat on the rubber feet. The hard drive was not designed to operate when rotated 90 degrees, he said.
Fortunately, I did not lose any work or work e-mails, as ALL DOCUMENTS were stored on the company server.
So we only have to retain tax information 6 months now?
I agree. That's why they also need to get the big guys in to testify too. The IRS pays a fortune to IBM, EMC, etc. Some of this has to be backup and storage and these companies’ reputations will be on the line if they can't produce a measly email.
The progressive narrative (that passes for news these days) is already set, to make fun of those two, in the public eye, that all these two do is talk funny...
But I do think the questions and expectations FReepers here have stated should be presented in those hearings...
Congress needs to slip a little provision into some bill that nobody will read before passing, saying that any excuse that allows government to evade legal responsibilities must also allow everybody else to evade legal responsibilities. So if the IRS can say the dog ate their hard drive, so can every business or individual in America. No more W-2’s, etc. It all got eaten by the hard drive crash and is irretrievable...
And I think the House should immediately add to any budget that the IRS budget is to be spent paying only minimum-wage to anybody who works there, that Lois Lerner’s retirement income (based on the government records of payouts to her, not dependent on her reporting whatsoever) shall be taxed at 100% (like they did with the AIG? execs at one point), and the money brought in by her taxes shall be used to buy and maintain “The Lois Lerner Memorial FU”, a copy machine that automatically prints every incoming and outgoing email at the IRS.
Agree.
I and a CE had our heads next to a 3340 when It disintegrated.
Sonatech
(FY 2000-2012)
Contracting Agency Internal Revenue Service
Total dollars: $116,511
IBM
(FY 2000-2012)
Contracting Agency Internal Revenue Service
Total dollars: $898,590,976
I think the proper thing to say is that nothing will happen UNLESS WE GET ON THE BUTTS OF OUR CONGRESS-CRITTERS AND MAKE THEM ARREST LOIS LERNER AND (IF THE COURTS DON’T FORCE ERIC HOLDER TO COMPLY WITH SUBPOENAS) ERIC HOLDER.
Until arrests are made and there are real consequences for breaking the law, the Congressional investigations are a sick joke. And it will be the fault of those who refuse to make the arrests that have already been acknowledged as lawful for them to make.
Does DARMA, DoD, NSA have some sort of “Stuxnet” worm that seeks out and destroys e-mails and hard drive’s???
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No reason to ,, that assumes that the user is not complicit when in fact all involved had good reason to want the data to disappear... all hard drives were easily physically accessed .. no reason to risk leaving some kind of signature behind.
Without the media or a congress with a spine this is a dead issue... and this is a dead country.
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