30,000 missing emails from IRS' Lerner recovered

Washington Examiner ^ | November 21, 2014 | Susan Ferrechio

[CivilWarBrewing]

Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of “disaster recovery tapes” that were used to back up the IRS email system.

“They just said it took them several weeks and some forensic effort to get these emails off these tapes,” a congressional aide told the Washington Examiner.

[j_guru]

Don’t hink that will preserve last modded date.
May need to add:
touch -d “$(date -r “$filename”) - 2 years” “$filename”

[DAC21]

“What’s the chance that they “selectively” recovered emails or perhaps even “massaged” them a bit before turning them over?”

I'd bet my last dollar that they have been tampered with. I doubt there are any IG's that haven't been corrupted by money or threats of harm.

[sloop]

from my post on another thread - it might make clear something of the ‘backup’ methodology - because there are more than one backups - and the ig is PROBABLY getting the data from a ‘backup’ that is NOT under the control of the irs

post follows

regulations for who?

if it applied to the government, who would pay any price if it was not done?

pc nerdz think that their exchange servers have a backup so every email server has the same - and its implemented - that is not true - email servers might whine if no backup is taken, but its not required to make the server function

the federal government does require all federal data be backed up to a centralized disaster recovery system - that is probably where this data is being recovered from - that system is NOT under the control of the irs

what is the retention period stated in those regulations?

if you recall, the irs said their ‘backups’ were not retained very long - and since the retention period had expired, the media was reused - that is very possible - probable even

someone then confronted the irs with ‘someone explained about the disaster recovery backups. did you check that backup?’ the answer was no - and it would be ‘hard’ to recover them from the disaster recovery backup - and take a long time

the routine backups are gone - easily believable - no one holds daily backups for decades - its cost prohibitive

the irs might (and SHOULD) have its own disaster recovery plan set up - its not clear if the ig is recovering the data from irs disaster recovery media or from the centralized repository - i suspect its the latter

no real nerd works in a government shop - if you are a nerd, you know why - and since the nerdz in government shops are the dregs of the industry, i am not shocked at the incompetency

an important question to ask is - did the top nerd at the irs explain (or even know about) the disaster recovery media? or did they CAREFULLY choose their words and claim ONLY be speaking to the ‘backups’ - did he deliberately mislead congress or are they just idiots - parsing the ‘is is’ stuff

reasonable administrators would take a backup - but NO ONE can say it HAS to be done

it does not

[Red Steel]

Unix/Linux line command that deletes everything from the root level to all connected drives

[RetiredArmy]

Thanksgiving is next weekend.

[henbane]

What will they look like after churning in the belly of the beast these many long months?

[Lumper20]

Yep. 30K emails makes you wonder if she ever worked? She damn sure did not leave her PC much to manage. Typical Gov. big shot manager as they never get out of the office to check on employees or customers.

[bayouranger]

America was born in blood. America suckled on blood. America gorged on blood and grew into a giant, and America will drown in blood. ....

http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Featured_Authors/chittum-thomas_w/Chittum_Index.html

[spokeshave]

I feel a great disturbance in the Gruber.

[sloop]

many are duplicates - or email sent to her on a distribution list - we don't know yet but if they searched every email content (not just the subject or sender) for the word ‘lois’ or ‘learner’ or ‘ignert slut’, that could account for a ton of them

[sloop]

its important to remember that democrap bureaucrapz have been known to use alternate email accounts - such as yahoo (epa anyone?)

and also to remember that the ignert slut was VERY interested in finding a method of communicating that would leave no footprint (instant messaging was of particular interest to her)

hope we get her with these emails - but i suspect the MOST incriminating evidence was done outside her irs email account

[Enterprise]

GOOD!!!

[Secret Agent Man]

un-recoverable. that’s what we were told.

[Lumper20]

Thanks.

[Lumper20]

Thanks.

[Enterprise]

Eric Cantor was a rough tough talker. In the end - pffffft. PLEASE let Chaffetz not be the same way.

[Enterprise]

And THAT was clear as a bell. They were UNRECOVERABLE! Must be pucker time for some of these people.

[VRWCarea51]

Of those 30k of emails half were her conspiring with the Rats to target tea party groups, the other half was RINOs conspiring with her to target tea party groups.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Have you noticed the American Left no longer feels constrained by rules laws?

Had to fix it!

[sloop]

that would explain why they did not search the congressional email servers...

we know some were plotting with her - those could be recovered from that server