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Exclusive: Inside the Company Targeted in IRS Scandal
NBC Bay Area ^ | 6-24-2014 | Scott Budman

Posted on 06/24/2014 4:00:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing

Exclusive: Inside the Company Targeted in IRS Scandal

Email "Doesn't go away."

By Scott Budman | Tuesday, Jun 24, 2014 | Updated 1:11 PM

Sonasoft is getting threats.

On email, and over the phone, saying, according to company founder Andy Khanna, "Provide the emails!"

And that's the clean version.

Sonasoft is the company you may have read about online over the last couple of days, linked to the IRS email scandal. They had a contract to replicate emails for IRS lawyers through 2011. They even sent out a tweet reading, "The IRS uses Sonasoft to back up their servers, why wouldn't you choose them to protect your servers?"

But Sonasoft has not commented on the scandal - until now.

In an exclusive interview, Khanna says they did sell software to the IRS, specifically the lawyers.

"We as a company sell and install," Khanna said. "Then, it's 100 percent up to the customer to maintain data, backup data, and archive data."

In other words, he said, Sonasoft doesn't know where the emails are, or if they were even backed up.

That said, Sonasoft is skeptical that they could just be lost. I asked the company's Chief Technology Officer Bilal Ahmed, "Email doesn't just go away, right?" He replied, "It doesn't go away. If they were deleting or adding emails on the primary server, it will be replicated to the standby."

A bit geeky, yes, but also the company's belief that they're being scapegoated by the government. A government Khanna says they were working for, "because we believe we should serve our government."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: irsscandals; irsteapartyscandal; lerneremails
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1 posted on 06/24/2014 4:00:35 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

What I heard is that within something like 10 days of the IRS scandal news the IRS suddenly cancelled their email backup contract with this company.


2 posted on 06/24/2014 4:11:47 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

I heard that too.

Here’s some more on Sonasoft:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3171026/posts


3 posted on 06/24/2014 4:15:45 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

because we believe we should serve our government.”

It’s the other way around, you idiot.


4 posted on 06/24/2014 4:17:09 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: smoothsailing

SONAS0FT ON GRETA VAN SUSTERAN IN A FEW MINUTES.


5 posted on 06/24/2014 4:23:30 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

Thanks!


6 posted on 06/24/2014 4:26:14 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Kackikat

Thanks!

Crazy day and night it’s been and being!


7 posted on 06/24/2014 4:32:55 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: txhurl; smoothsailing; CatherineofAragon

Did you get that from the CEO of Sonasoft...The software and archive back up they sell would have had the e mails in archive on a server not tied to Lerner’s computer, as law requires....

HOWEVER the IRS attorneys bought the software only and not the ARCHIVE CAPTURING SERVER service, therefore there is NO E MAIL TRAIL. So was it intentional and illegal by attorneys not to have archives of the e mails, or stupidity? Maybe they were worried that e mails would be archived and that could be a liability.

All IRS attorneys and employees involved should go be prosecuted and go to prison. Ms Aragon was right that Lerner only had the software, however, that wasn’t legal. As was learned in latest questioning of IRS Commissioner.


8 posted on 06/24/2014 4:43:02 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

I watched it. Why did they buy any software if they had no interest in backing up or archiving? Was it some sort of payback scheme for campaign contributions? Something smells rotten.


9 posted on 06/24/2014 4:49:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Kackikat

Kackikat, thanks for pinging me, but that must have been someone else. I haven’t posted about the IRS software...I’m not computer-smart enough to do so, LOL.


10 posted on 06/24/2014 4:50:01 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: CatherineofAragon

I will have to look back on my posts...I had a disagreement with someone on Sonasoft...thanks.


11 posted on 06/24/2014 4:55:14 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: smoothsailing

“because we believe we should serve our government.”

Especially when a liberal fascist is trying to overthrow it.


12 posted on 06/24/2014 4:55:25 PM PDT by Slambat
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To: Kackikat

So for those of us who missed it because we just saw you note, tell us all about it.


13 posted on 06/24/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by mazda77
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To: smoothsailing

Rotten...you got it, it was a pretend method of following the law without obligating their e mails to scrutiny I guess...I don’t know.


14 posted on 06/24/2014 4:57:54 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat; savedbygrace

The CEO of Sonasoft was on Greta Van Susteran, so view my comment to which I just replied to you.... since it was you I disagreed with. I sent the comment to Aragon but it wasn’t her...so you were right about what they bought, but I was right that archiving was what Sonasoft offered for e mail archiving, but the IRS attorney s did not buy it. So Lerner did not comply with law.


15 posted on 06/24/2014 5:01:14 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: Kackikat

I think it’s some sort of diversion, but from what I don’t know. Why would they cancel the contract? Sonasoft had no idea what the IRS did with the software, according to Khanna.


16 posted on 06/24/2014 5:05:39 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Slambat

I think all those Silicon Valley computer nerds are insane.


17 posted on 06/24/2014 5:09:40 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

That’s my point, they bought the software from Sonasoft, but no archiving of e mails that would have met the legal requirement...Why? It’s either incompetence or intentional?


18 posted on 06/24/2014 5:26:26 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: mazda77

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3171917/posts

If you read the posts on this thread it will inform you of what we discussed.


19 posted on 06/24/2014 5:28:35 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: txhurl

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3171917/posts


20 posted on 06/24/2014 5:29:27 PM PDT by Kackikat
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