Posted on 09/17/2014 3:12:32 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner John Koskinen testified Wednesday that the IRS did not save any of the information on Lois Lerner’s destroyed Blackberry and that there is no outside system to store agency emails.
“Hard drive crashes continue as we speak,” Koskinen admitted at a House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing when asked if any computers had recently crashed under his watch.
Koskinen admitted that destroying records would be an act “not consistent with the law,” but maintained that there’s no evidence that the IRS intentionally destroyed records.
“Ms. Lerner’s Blackberry was replaced in February 2012 as part of an ongoing Blackberry update….it was disposed of under standard procedures at that time,” Koskinen said.
Koskinen claimed that information from Lerner’s Blackberry could not be transferred to her new model because “Our Blackberries only display email that is displayed by our employees’ Microsoft Outlook emails, which is maintained on IRS servers.”
Koskinen also said that there’s no outside system to save IRS employees’ emails.
“There is no system outside the IRS, government or otherwise, that the IRS uses to back up or store emails,” Koskinen said.
Koskinen didn’t mention that the IRS terminated its years-long contract with its email archiving company Sonasoft shortly after Lerner’s computer crashed.
“It is not clear that there are backup tapes that have any information on them,” Koskinen said. “I never said they disappeared, I said they were recycled.”
But the IRS could have easily saved all records, information, and history on Lois Lerner’s Blackberry, according to a Blackberry user guide.
“If you have installed the BlackBerry® Desktop Software on your computer, you can back up and restore most of your BlackBerry smartphone data, including messages, organizer data, fonts, saved searches, and browser bookmarks using the BlackBerry Desktop Software. For more information, see the Help in the BlackBerry Desktop Software,” according to Blackberry.
“If your email account uses a BlackBerry® Enterprise Server, you might be able to restore synchronized organizer data to your smartphone over the wireless network. To restore synchronized organizer data over the wireless network, you must have an activation password. For more information, contact your administrator,” the Blackberry manual continues.
Koskinen said that if the agency destroyed records then “that was an act not consistent with the law” but said, “There’s no evidence that there were records destroyed.”
Koskinen also admitted that IRS employees routinely use personal email accounts to conduct agency business but maintained that “they do it inadvertently.”
Do HDD’s crash? Sure they do, but not like this. These HDD’s were destroyed because they knew full well that the platters can be removed and information extracted even after a crash. Crash does not erase the data.
This is a criminal act of conspiracy to impede an investigation, perjury, destruction of evidence. How will our republic survive after this? Our own gubbamint has turned it's enormous power on the citizens of this country.
The most punitive agency of the feral gubbamint is closing ranks and covering up criminal behavior. Americans should be marching on D.C. over this.
If I’m not mistaken, it’s the LAW they be backed-up. Where is the disposition of the IRS’ IT/IS team head? Where are the logs/signatures of their backup/restoration solution?
Of course, nobody in D.C. cares about, nor enforces the Law, upon those within the beltway. Only, We the Serfs need worry about the Law.
THIS IS KEY!!
The ObamaIRS has maintained that they could not recover Lerner's emails because her hard drive crashed... anyone in a large organization knows this cannot be true - emails are stored on a server.
Here he ADMITS that their emails come from a SERVER and therefore a desktop PC hard drive crash would not lose any emails.
But the GOP is too dumb to realize what has fallen into their laps...
Boehner is the problem.
AMEN
““I have no idea what my income is. All my information was on my computer. No backup. So sorry””
If you get a wage they have it.
If you work for yourself and have poor or questionable records, they will determine what you own based on a number of inputs.
“If you work for yourself and have poor or questionable records, they will determine what you own based on a number of inputs.”
You got that right. States will do that, too, which happened to me. I had a sales tax number in case I decided to do craft shows for a couple years, wrote the state to cancel the number because I never got around to doing the shows and they just made up an income they “thought” I got and charged me $400 tax! I was forced to pay it because I just started a new job and couldn’t deal with it, but the next year they tried it again and I had it out pretty loudly on the phone with a gal and not only did they leave me alone after that, but I got my $400 back. I could not have been more pissed. Probably couldn’t use that tactic with the feds without getting a visit from the po-po.
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