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]
I maintain that what is the real issue at the root, so to speak, is what was received and sent from Obama’s Blackberry.
Those messages are what is being protected
And/or Valerie’s Blackberry
Which means...... the NSA knows!
MS Exchange requires Windows Server, domain controllers, etc. We’re talking about the same thing, right?
I realize that, but I can still try it with the desktop and see what happens when I email it to another account. Outlook is the predecessor to Exchange and that trick worked on the apparent delivered email, just not in full header mode.
I’m not even a high-level exec, but I can get someone from IT to come fix my laptop or bring me a new one or loaner within a few hours. In the interim, if it looks like it’s going to be a while, I borrow a colleague’s computer, sign on as myself put my oof on (having computer issues, my responses will be delayed - please call me at xxx if you need immediate assistance). I’ve been able to do this with various versions of Windows OS and Outlook, but I’ve only had to do this a few times (once when I was putting in a lot of hours and my poor HD got over-heated and needed a rest).
I can only remember 1 colleague that actually had a bad crash and that was at least a few years ago. Our very capable IT guys couldn’t recover the data, so they sent it out to a company that specializes in recovery (IIRC cost about $400) and they were able to recover her data. Meanwhile, most of her email were on the server (it was only the docs she saved on her HD that she didn’t have immediate access to).
Now that is just silly. Outlook is a client. Exchange is server technology. Anyway, have fun with it.
Maybe it is an attempt to scrub the other files she kept on her hand drive that could have been very incriminating and not about the emails.
Exactly. This email is crap. Any government agency of any size has a central server for authentication, and central server for email. If Lois Lerner’s computer crashed, she would simply go to any other computer (e.g. her secretary’s) and login as herself and get her email. I do contract work for a govt agency and have a gov email account and I can get my gov email from ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AT ANY TIME.
Another problem arises. From 2008 to 2010 the IRS was able to retrieve Lerner’s intra agency e-mails (those to and from IRS employees. What is claimed to be lost are the inter agency emails (to and from addresses outside of the IRS).
How is this done? Who actually made the split? Who required the split? Were these categories saved on different backup tapes? Were the intra agency e-mail tapes NOT recycled? It seems so.
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
Go to those individual’s computers and find the copy of all her emails ever sent to them.
Remember Scooter Libby and Rove? Where is the Marxist Media now?
Pray America wakes up
Exactly.
I’m the CEO of a mid-sized business. If my hard drive crashed in the morning, our IT people would have me on a new computer before lunch. I wouldn’t lose an e-mail. It is true that I could do very little work, since most of what I do is read and write e-mails....so I’d just take a walk while the IT guys were working in my office, sit outside in the pleasant summer air, and send and receive e-mails on my smartphone. My managers would never know I was out of the office for a few hours.
Lois Lerner had a high position. On top of all this, I guarantee you she had the ability to delegate her e-mail account to some other individual. In the real world, she’d either shift to her Blackberry, or just have her assistant watch her e-mails for a few hours and go for a long lunch while it was all being fixed.
This e-mail is explicit tradecraft of a cover-up.
Akaisha Douglas, who wrote this note, appears to be her assistant, and would be in on the cover-up.
While in DoD, we used Microsoft Outlook and all email stayed on the server. We could back it up onto our hard drive, but the original email would remain on the server. At certain times (I think at midnight) every email would be put on tape backup (almost impossible to retrieve unless they wanted to investigate you).
I am currently at another Federal agency and we used Lotus Notes and it was the same as Microsoft Outlook. We shifted to GMail and now we cannot download it to a hard drive even if we want to back it up.
I have had my hard drive fail and I just jumped to another computer and accessed my email account.
“Go to those individual’s computers and find the copy of all her emails ever sent to them.”
Amen - Issa should slap a subpoena for the information on all those computers immediately, with an emphasis on the legal consequences resulting from any modification of anything on them at all.
She might be but if your boss tells you to do something you rarely ask questions. Lois comes out of her office and tells Akaisha to send out an email, who is she to judge?
I’m very suspicious of Lerner losing her e-mails at a critical time, but I can back up some of what is being said about how some e-mails could be stored only on a person’s laptop or desktop.
I worked for a company that used Microsoft Exchange Server. We had a limit on our e-mail accounts of 100MB. This limit included all incoming mail, outgoing mail, calendar appointments etc. That 100MB was backed up by the IT department on their servers. However, with attachments to e-mails, including Word documents, PDFs, photos, etc, the 100 MB limit was soon reached and your account was then blocked from sending out new e-mails, effectively shutting you out of the system. The only way to free up space is to delete e-mails off the server. Of course, critical e-mails could be saved by users onto their computer hard drive, CDs, back-up server, etc before being deleted from the Exchange server.
The question for Lerner is, what what her usual back-up procedure before she deleted files from the server? How fast did she delete e-mails from the server? Were her e-mails mostly just text, or did they often contain large attachments? If her e-mails were just text tens of thousands could still be on the server and not exceed the 150MB limit. Was a back-up server provided so she could save e-mails on line? Was she aware of the law that required her to retain her e-mails?
Lerner and others need to testify to these things under oath.
I have read that the crash happened 10 days after the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the IRS wanting answers to some questions about “501(c)(4)” organizations.
(HEADLINES June 13,2011 - http://www.democracynow.org/2011/6/13/headlines)
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