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.

[centurion316]

Congressman Issa will no longer be the Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is term limited. That committee will have a new Chair.

[bkopto]

These should be posted online for crowd-sourced hunting for Lerner’s coordination with the White Hut.

I’d do my share to put Lerner behind bars and revocation of her pension, with bonus points for impeachment of Bath House.

[boop]

"You can bet the incriminating ones were flushed into the recycle bin."

But can't the recycling bin be "recovered" as well?

IIRC, during the Bush administration some staffer had tried to do that, put things into the recycle bin. But the dems on the investigating committee had an IT guy find them pretty easily. Rush mentioned this on his radio program.

IT specialists, correct me if I'm wrong, but short of burning or literally pulverizing a computer, EVERYTHING is "recoverable".

[rwa265]

I really don’t think TIGTA is interested in covering up for IRS.

[hondact200]

here is the reason Obama did the Immigration Issue. To distract evryone from an issue he is cupable

[MeganC]

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

Maybe some day they'll feel a little constrained by the rope around their necks.

[DAC21]

Indict that arrogant pig John Koskinen for lying under oath.

[MeshugeMikey]

30 Thousand email messages...

STAGGERING

and the timing even MORE SO!

[FreeAtlanta]

hopefully, those 30,000 include duplicates from the people that received them, otherwise, that is a heck of a lot of sends.

[FreeAtlanta]

My guess is there are a lot of terrified people that received or emailed her.

[unixfox]

Not a smidgen!

Rot in hell Lerner! I hope you burn in hell!

[bert]

to rot in hell she must first get the needle. Delay is intolerable

[unixfox]

It’s not easy massaging 30,000 Emails. That would involves scores of people who would ALL have to keep their mouths shut. Maybe overseas telemarketers? LOL

Or simply use the boot lickers at the IRS?

They're already complicit for crimes against Americans so why would a little internal tampering bother them?

[Red Steel]

The Lois Lerner wish command...

> rm -rf /

[MNDude]

I”m sure her most damaging emails are among a small inner circle of friends who all agreed to erase their emails.

[DeweyCA]

Lerner will never be held to account for her deeds. She will be pardoned by BP because the dear woman has been harassed by all of those EVIL Republicans during this inquiry.’ /s
She should be put in jail, have her pension stripped from her, and have to pay attorneys’ fees of the prosecution.

[tacticalogic]

I”m sure her most damaging emails are among a small inner circle of friends who all agreed to erase their emails.

The fact that they had to destroy those hard drives says otherwise. I think they got so arrogant they believed they were above the law and didn't have to worry about it.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The American Left has NEVER been constrained by rules. However, they are the best cover-up artists in American politics, some of whom were trained by Moscow or who worked with the Communist Party USA (same thing) -

Sen. Alan Cranston (Carlos Tresca murder and Office of War Information disinformation); Rep. Emanuel Dickstein (paid NKVD asset), Rep. Vito Marcantonio (covered up his CP member to the point that even today it has never been proven); Sen. George McGovern (Moscow biggest dupe in the Senate); Rep. Bella Abzug (a covert member of the CPUSA whose documentation as such has disappeared from govt files); Rep. Hugh DeLacey, a very good friend of Secy of Defense/CIA Leon Panetta; Harry Bridges, KGB asset and secret member of the Central Committee, CPUSA who lied to Congress, Courts, Immigration officials, the media and the public about his Moscow ties; Ted Kennedy (secret Moscow contacts); John Kerry (VVAW, supporter of the Sandinistas, along with Chris Dodd); Rep. Laura De Rosa (the red witch of Connecticut); Ron Dellums, secret contacts with the Marxists of Grenada; and the list goes on.

None of them ever played by the rules when it suited them so why should another CPUSA-influenced politician named Barack Obama be any different?

[MNDude]

so you think they’ll find something damning? This could be another good FreeRepublic “Make a Wager” thread on.

[sloop]

it all depends

create a file called ‘ghetto fool’

put the word ‘sucks’ in the file

move it to the recycle bin

take a ‘backup’

empty the recycle bin

ghetto fool can be recovered from the backup (assuming you backed up the recycle bin)

note that ghetto fool can also be recovered on the computer's hard drive (not the backup) IF another file has not overwritten the space ghetto fool occupied on the hard drive

that scenario has a backup taken BEFORE you empty the recycle bin

note that many ‘optimization’ tools empty your recycle bin when you run them (lots of people run them at the end of every shift thinking it hides all the goof off time they spend on their work computer)

not all ‘backups’ are the same - some back up specific files and not all the files on the hard drive - an example is most of the cloud backup services back up your photos and documents but NOT that game you bought - most backups do NOT backup your programs, including windows itself

you can take a different type of backup - an image copy of your entire hard drive - that backs up everything on the hard drive - even that game you bought and windows itself

in info tech, the cio is held responsible for the information assets of a company - if a fire burns down the datacenter, all REAL info tech departments have the ability to take the ‘backups’ and put that data on new computers - its the ‘disaster recovery’ plan

the tapes the emails are being recovered from are the disaster recovery backups - the irs pretended not to know these backups existed at first - then said ‘it would be too hard to find the emails in all those files backed up’

the ig got sick of the lies and bs - so he (or she) got the disaster recovery backups and is recovering the files

the info tech guys and that little smug, wimpy fool heading the irs should ALL be imprisoned for life along with this hitleresque ho learner