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 ...
At first I thought it was Reds, because I always thought he was a bit of a communist anyway. Yes, there is no coverup, there will be no questions. Aren’t we kind of hearing that now? Not a smidgen of evidence. In their grade B dreams.
Fox and Friends just mentioned this in the show opening headline.
I just watched Enemy of the State again, from 1998, with Gene Hackman, Will Smith, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight. When I watched it in 1998, I did not think of the things I think about now. This time, I came away angry, because I thought everything I saw there, I see the government doing now. Jack Black was in it, before anyone knew who he was.
Yeah. Like the Kommisar of the IRS would have the same storage limitations as some GS 8 drone....
Seriously I’d like see legislation that no Citizen can be held to higher standard of documentation then the government agency involved. If the IRS only has to keep emails 6 months, then so do we. Ditto hard copies. And burden of proof for ANY violation of statute is on the agency, not the citizen.
This is precisely why impeachment, right now, is a necessity.
Weaver worked for NBC and developed the Today, Tonight and other shows...
As a federal employee I know for a fact that there are digital copies on an email server somewhere. Emails go from the computer, to the email server, then to the recipient. That email server keeps copies of them. So even though the hard drives have been destroyed, there are copies on the IRS email server. Those hard drives CAN’T be destroyed.
Well, Koskinen swore under oath that Lerner's HD was destroyed, as well as several others of interest.
Here's a thing I remain curious about. There has been talk about a six month cycle in which tape backups are over written. I have heard no talk about off site storage - where is the vault and what is in it?
Hard drives from the laptop can be destroyed, as well we all know now. But offsite storage is required, and to keep them for many years, many times at least 10 years, is the norm, sometimes longer. Wherever the email server for the IRS is located is where you’ll find backups of every email she’s written.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3170849/posts?page=19#19
Post shows that as early as 2007 IRS was moving away from tape as storage medium.
Ping!
No matter. The military don’t use tape backups either. There’s other media that is used for backups now. Those emails are still out there. Obama and his cronies are stalling while those emails are found and destroyed.
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