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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It is sad that intellectual curiosity has become so politically-incorrect in modern-day America.
The Daily Show will just say that anyone interested in things like this are just “CRAZY PEOPLE!”, and the sheeple will just bleat, and look away.
I wonder what’s so hard to understand about that...
You are on the right track.
Lets say her hard drive did fail, just to buy the IRS line, Lerner’s computer was finished, done, couldn’t be used anymore.
What was the next step? Of course IT would provide her with a new computer or a new hard drive. The only problem, would be there would be no data on that hard drive. It would be blank as far as data was concerned.
Question: How did Lerner and these other officials operate their departments with out years worth of folders, documents and email contacts?
Put yourself in her position or anyones position where all your data was deleted and no way to retrieve it. Panic city right?
Obviously this didn’t happen to Lerner nor to any of the others. WHY?
2 reasons:
1. There was no hard drive failure, just the story lie from the IRS.
2. Her new hard drive was reloaded from (stored data) and that would include her emails.
You can not function a major government office if you lost 2 years of data.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Lois is a walking-talking EMP blast, no hard drive can withstand her energy. We should send her to China to deal with the PLA.
There are circumstances where this isn't necessarily true. The IRS may give the users a very small mailbox on the server with a short retention policy. To save older and more email, the user would have to archive to pst files on their local hard drive.
Gee.. I wonder if there is criminal destruction of evidence going on at the highest levels of the IRS...
Any Honest IT pro can tell you what really happened here. Theses Obama Stooges committed criminal acts and they need to be brought up on criminal charges. The Real question is who will/can do it?
Theses people were either ordered to do this by Obama or they volunteered like good little leftist to fall on the sword and carry out a blatantly illegal act of using their office to suppress political opposition then destroying the evidence about it.
Why doesn’t he say,
HD’s of ALL people Lois Lerner has communicated with either have crashed or WILL CRASH before you get to them!!
OK?
An epidemic of “crashes!” And did the dog chew their homework too????
Oh by the way, they can sit in jail until someone searches the servers and retrieves all these e-mails.
Crashed or destroyed...
Being from an I.T. background, there is NO company, that I know of, nor have ever worked for, that does not archive e-mails to tape for damn near forever...per regulation.
Now, that could be the biz I work in (finance, and now gov’t), but what biz wouldn’t CYA by using cheap tape and/or media when the regulators/etc. come knocking, or from some B.S. harassment lawsuit, or...
Still, they did not (yeah, just THIS time) follow their own regs/Law in RE: computer/HDD failure. Where’s the grilling of the I.T. and the subpena of chain-of-command. SOMEONE had to sign-off of destruction, rebuild, restore, etc. Wasn’t Keebler elves coming in to save the day.
I sure this teaches the government to consider having email messages be stored on servers, like the rest of the world, instead of local hard disks.
(I sure hope)
While email can theoretically be kept forever, most companies have defined retention programs that are put in place specifically to limit the scope of e-discovery in the event of litigation. There are documents that must be kept per various industries, regulations,etc., but generally, everything else is deleted in a period defined by a given companies retention policy. Most retention periods are pretty short in my experience.
I don't know the specifics of the retention requirements for IRS email, but email can be setup to make them disappear pretty quickly. I'm sure the bureaucrats would rather get busted for incompetent document retention than collusion to target political opponents.
Why would it matter if Lerner’s hard drive crashed?
I know of no e-mail system where the e-mails are not stored on a remote server, which is routinely backed up and archived?
I would presume it would depend on the field. But, as HDD space has dropped in $$ like a rock, AND adding that Lerner wasn’t just some low-level employee, most IT/co (let alone the employee themselves) keep as much...for as long as possible.
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