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Email: LOIS LERNER HARD DRIVE CRASH
House Ways and Means Committee ^ | Monday, June 13, 2011 10:19 AM | Akaisha Douglas

Posted on 07/03/2014 11:07:16 PM PDT by SSS Two

From: Douglas, Akaisha
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 10:19 AM
To: Grant Joseph H; Medina Moises C; &TEGE:EO 1750 Penn Ees
CC: Cook Janine; Marks Nancy J; Livingston Catherine E; Ingram Sarah H; Flax Nicole C; Holland Tiwana M; Lemmons Terry L; Siereveld Brett L; Tesser Cheryl A
Subject: LOIS LERNER HARD DRIVE CRASH

Lois' hard drive has crashed on her computer and will be without email. If you need to contact Lois please call her at 202-283-8848. For immediate attention, contact Akaisha Douglas at 202-283-9488.

Akaisha Douglas
IRS, Exempt Organizations
202-283-9488

[This email appears on page 24 of the linked .pdf]


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: irs; lerner
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To: SSS Two

I agree too, (have been in the computer business for about 40 years).


41 posted on 07/04/2014 3:11:42 AM PDT by paolop
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To: SSS Two

Fake but accurate? Shades of Gunga Dan!


42 posted on 07/04/2014 3:16:50 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: SSS Two

This so openly phony, worse than the phony Obama birth certificate.


43 posted on 07/04/2014 3:18:53 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: DesertRhino
"This should be right up there with Bush one being surprised at a bar code checkout."

You need to be educated about this. You have fallen for the media induced fable that Bush 41 was "out of touch". Bush 41 was being shown a reader that could read TORN bar codes. He was completely familiar with bar code readers. In fact, that's why he was even shown the new technology for reading torn bar codes.

44 posted on 07/04/2014 3:19:59 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age didnÂ’t end because we ran out of stones)
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To: SSS Two

Has anyone referenced the significance of the date June 13, 2011 relative to anything?


45 posted on 07/04/2014 3:26:19 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: paolop
These HDD have MTBFs measured in tens of thousands of hours.

Final testing before shipment from the manufacturer gets most of the infant mortality end of the "bath tub" curve, and those shipped are very, very stable.

To have, as we are told, six similar "crashes" is statistically not possible.

Oh, first computer - IBM 650 (bi-quinary) with mercury-delay lines (think big shift register) and drum storage, circa late 1950s.

46 posted on 07/04/2014 3:28:29 AM PDT by jamaksin
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To: SSS Two
This so much reminds me of that Three Stooges episode where the Stooges are trying to hide from a couple of guys who are pursuing them. Curly hides inside a big radio. When the pursuers try to turn on the radio, he pretends to deliver a "news" bulletin.

CURLY: Calling all cars; calling all cars ... be on the lookout for three men. They ain't in here!!

BAD GUY: Oh, I wonder where they are?

47 posted on 07/04/2014 3:39:58 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SSS Two

I work for a verrrry small, 6-person consulting firm. We’re also not exactly the most tech-savvy operation.

I’ve had various computer crashes and problems, including a notebook stolen in a car breakin, over the years.

Never lost a single email. Lost quite a bit of other stuff, but never email. I’m not even sure what I’d have to do to lose email.


48 posted on 07/04/2014 3:41:30 AM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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To: Gaffer

Resetting the server clock would cause all kinds of problems including accessing the domain servers which I assume the Exchange server wasn’t - that is not a recommended configuration. That it turn would mean logins to the Exchange server would fail.

A significant time differential on a LAN causes connection failures. That very problem has come up here with FReepers asking for assistance as to why computers could not connect with each other, the solution simply being to check/update the date/times.

I believe the workstation clock would not come into play at all with MS Exchange.

If the email (notifying of the hard drive “failure”) recipients were internal, which I assume they were, then the situation is vastly simpler because there would be no other mail server involved.

I wouldn’t know how to do it off the top of my head, but there are a number of low-level tools for working with MS Exchange and do believe that the timestamps could be edited and doubt that regardless of whether or not it would work, there would be any other way to accomplish back-dating, including resetting computer clocks.


49 posted on 07/04/2014 3:41:56 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: nikos1121

“Has anyone referenced the significance of the date June 13, 2011 relative to anything?”

Yeah, my first thought also....


50 posted on 07/04/2014 3:44:06 AM PDT by expat1000
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To: CivilWarBrewing
And there should be a IT service ticket somewhere.
I get one even if I call for a password reset.
51 posted on 07/04/2014 3:46:43 AM PDT by Falcon4.0
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To: expat1000

“I believe the workstation clock would not come into play at all with MS Exchange”

I have shown a friend once that he can change the apparent dates on Outlook Express by changing the computer PC date.

The email arrived with the changed date. However, when you used the “view source” feature in Outlook Express, the real transmission/receipt dates/times from the servers involved were correct.

I have MS Exchange. I’ll try resetting my pc clock and sending and email and see what pops up.


52 posted on 07/04/2014 3:49:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: SSS Two

I suspect everybody knows, except maybe people who have never worked at an organization with more than 5 people, that the government is lying about this.


53 posted on 07/04/2014 3:51:05 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Anyone in the IT business knows this email alert would never have been sent.

If a high level executive does have a computer problem, the first thing that IT would do is arrive at her work place with a substitute, and the exec would be up and running with no one having any need to know that a computer problem ever existed. I call bullshit.

54 posted on 07/04/2014 4:02:23 AM PDT by USS Alaska (Exterminate the terrorist savages, everywhere.)
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To: SSS Two

Concur. This revelation smacks of manufacturing an alibi.


55 posted on 07/04/2014 4:14:23 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Arab Spring is over. Welcome to the Jihadi Spring." Jonah Goldberg)
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To: expat1000

The supposed e-mails included in the document are nothing but printouts, and there’s no metadata associated with them. They could have originated anywhere.


56 posted on 07/04/2014 4:20:23 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Little Pig
"FWIW, as an IT guy, I can say that “her hard drive crashed” is meant to mean “her computer is unavailable”, and therefore “will be without email” means she only gets her emails through her own PC (though we now know this is false, since she had a Blackberry), and wouldn't’t be able to read or respond to emails until her PC is back up.

If there was a Blackberry involved then the is another set of servers involved that also contain the emails. The entire thing is BS. the actual IT people involved need to be questioned by someone other than those in the IRS. I don't know but maybe someone interested in the facts.

57 posted on 07/04/2014 4:36:57 AM PDT by WHBates
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To: SSS Two

“Lois G. Lerner————————————— Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld”

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JW1559-000183.pdf

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JW1559-000129.pdf


58 posted on 07/04/2014 4:43:04 AM PDT by maggief
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To: DesertRhino
This should be right up there with Bush one being surprised at a bar code checkout.

That story, btw, was a dishonest slander against Bush.

When you are on a VIP tour, you will get shown whatever is new and exciting in the facility you are visiting. You are expected to be a good guest. If you are visiting an elementary school, you will ooh and aaah about the whiteboard in the fourth grade classroom. If you are visiting a plant floor, you will be impressed at the new press. If you are visiting a farm, you will be blown away by the GPS, precision planting, and field maps. Etc., etc., etc. And if you are brighter than a cabbage and have an interest in how the world is getting better every day in a million and one little ways, you may even find these things genuinely interesting. I do. It is fascinating how people are finding creative ways to do things better.

Anyhow, Bush was touring a grocery, and they showed him what was new. He admired it, as he was supposed to. The scanner in question was in fact an advancement; it could scan around curves and handle a considerable amount of damage on bar codes, so it was actually a pretty nifty piece of equipment.

The backstory of the "Bush is a doofus" party line slam is that EVERY person on the trip, including all the pool reporters, understood what was going on. And I'll suspect that most of them probably found it tolerably interesting, if they had any intellectual curiosity at all. The anti-Bush story was not written by one of the pool reporters. It was written by someone back in DC who received the pool report, thought he saw an angle for ridicule, and fabricated a hit piece. Shabby journalism, but it fit the political needs of the MSM, so it became a big story.

59 posted on 07/04/2014 4:48:06 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: SSS Two

I’m calling “Cover-Up”. We know she had a Blackberry, so she was never without email.


60 posted on 07/04/2014 4:48:13 AM PDT by magellan
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