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IRS lawyer: By the way, hard drives of some other employees who dealt with Lois Lerner also crashed
Hotair ^ | 07/21/2014 | AllahPundit

Posted on 07/21/2014 12:09:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

We’ve reached a sufficiently high level of implausibility now, I think, that this story technically qualifies as a news-of-the-weird palate cleanser, not actual news.

Assuming the data isn’t recovered and no one is punished, as seems likely, this is a get-out-of-jail-free card for the next president’s administration, no? If some Democratic Senate oversight committee demands to see e-mails from President Christie’s underlings and the reply comes back that the hard drives were all corrupted, what’s the grounds for complaint?

IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane said in transcribed congressional testimony that more IRS officials experienced computer crashes, bringing the total number of crash victims to “less than 20,” and also said that the agency does not know if the lost emails are still backed up somewhere.

The new round of computer crash victims includes David Fish, who routinely corresponded with Lois Lerner, as well as Lerner subordinate Andy Megosh, Lerner’s technical adviser Justin Lowe, and Cincinnati-based agent Kimberly Kitchens.

Per WaPo, the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM) published a list of six unanswered questions for the IRS’s IT wizards today. Question one:

1.) What happened to the IRS’s IT asset managers who appear to have disappeared at a key juncture?

Ordering the destruction of a hard drive and documenting that process would be handled by trained, certified IT asset managers, according to IAITAM. But the group’s records show that at least three IRS IT asset managers were shuffled out of their positions around the time of the May 2013 inspector general’s report that detailed the agency’s targeting practices.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crash; harddrives; irs; irsloislerner; irsscandals; irsteapartyscandal; lerneremails
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1 posted on 07/21/2014 12:09:16 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

So, don’t bother looking for their e-mails as well...................Just a heads up, so we can save some time and money, you know.................


2 posted on 07/21/2014 12:14:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: SeekAndFind
I wish the evil Koch brothers would offer a one million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Lois Lerner.
3 posted on 07/21/2014 12:14:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

Once the criminal regime got away with
no birth certificate, fraud by Pelosi,
known criminal behavior by Holder,
supporting al Qaeda, opening the borders
while infecting every state with tuberculosis,
WHAT WAS LEFT?


4 posted on 07/21/2014 12:15:11 PM PDT by Diogenesis (The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
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To: SeekAndFind

How come that excuse will never work for my tax records....

We live in lawlessness, only the typical law abiding citizen doesn’t realize it yet, but the government sure as hell does and is using it to their FULL ADVANTAGE....


5 posted on 07/21/2014 12:15:30 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: SeekAndFind

charge her with felony obstruction and let a jury deicde if this all just a coincidence.

What is the hold up?


6 posted on 07/21/2014 12:17:19 PM PDT by Cubs Fan (false claims of racism--the first refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Cubs Fan

They are on the G: drive.


7 posted on 07/21/2014 12:19:25 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SeekAndFind
Jeepers.
What bad luck!!!
8 posted on 07/21/2014 12:23:14 PM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Put them all in jail for destroying evidence!


9 posted on 07/21/2014 12:30:41 PM PDT by aviator (Armored Pest Control)
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To: aviator; All

Must have been free magnet day @ the IRS for that bunch.....


10 posted on 07/21/2014 12:33:03 PM PDT by PenguinM
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To: SeekAndFind

By the way.


11 posted on 07/21/2014 12:35:34 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dear IRS:

I’m sorry that I can’t provide all the documents you want to see, but my VCR no longer works, so they’re gone.

Regards,


12 posted on 07/21/2014 12:37:08 PM PDT by william clark (Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll bet they all forgot to print off those emails and file them at the National Archives, too.


13 posted on 07/21/2014 12:39:52 PM PDT by tacticalogic
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To: SeekAndFind

How convenient.


14 posted on 07/21/2014 12:47:58 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

And there still will be no special prosecutor.

Because the Emperor doesn’t see a need for one, Eric will handle it.
He’s doing the lords work for America


15 posted on 07/21/2014 12:53:32 PM PDT by reefdiver (Be the Best you can be Whatever you Dream to be)
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To: SeekAndFind
How long before we read that Lerner's machine was infected with a potent email virus that replicated itself on EVERY IRS or administration computer whose users exchanged email with her?

Boy, of all the rotten luck...

16 posted on 07/21/2014 1:00:00 PM PDT by DJ Frisat (Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are laughing at us, America! They know that we can’t do anything to them. It has really come right down to it: the government considers the people and the opposition to be the enemy.

Next, they’ll just show us the hard drive and then smash it with a giant Gallagher mallet and say, “Oops. This one crashed too!”


17 posted on 07/21/2014 1:04:04 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: Bryanw92

Again, it is NOT the computer’s hard drives that are the problem.

E-mails are not stored in the user’s hard drives. They are storied in e-mail SERVERS.

Even if the server crashed, all major systems have redundancy built in for just this reason. Take down the server, use the redundant server, fix the main server, and reload the data. Always at least two complete systems.

The experts keep telling us this: When you lose your computer [hard drive], you don’t lose your email. In a business environment, the email actually resides on the server. So, they’re retrievable from the server,

I wonder what’s so hard to understand about that...


18 posted on 07/21/2014 1:13:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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>>Again, it is NOT the computer’s hard drives that are the problem.

I know that. I’m a System Admin. That’s my point. They are not only lying, they are lying about using 20 year old technology and they don’t care that we know its a lie.

I’m surprised they didn’t blame it reformatting the wrong floppy.


19 posted on 07/21/2014 1:24:48 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: massgopguy
They are on the G: drive.

Is that the one that is write-only?

20 posted on 07/21/2014 1:27:44 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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