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Posted on 11/22/2014 7:16:04 AM PST by Enlightened1
As many as 30,000 lost emails from Lois Lerner -- the ex-IRS official at the center of the agency's targeting scandal -- have been recovered by federal investigators.
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Timing-after the election?
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Don’t get your hopes up. It will take IRS lawyers many months to review the emails. Did anyone look at this week’s batch of Fast and Furious documents pried loose by Judicial Watch? Many, many pages of redactions. That’s what government lawyers do.
Even before you get into bogus executive privilege claims or outright shenanigans supporting political coverups, those emails could contain private taxpayer info and no judge would disallow an IRS request for an internal review prior to turning them over.
Political operatives and IRS lawyers (but I repeat myself), have calculated yesterday’s release would allow enough delay to get past November 2016.
There’s no decoding. You have the back-up tape....you reinstall it onto a harddrive, and the pst is sitting right there. Probably a one-hour job at best.
What you don’t want to do is corrupt the pst file, and I think that’s why they are going real slow.
For Lerner, I’d start to get worried, call my DNC source and ask what the President is going to do. I’d say by early January, the House will know the full contents and know who it was at the WH giving the directions. It’s going to be a very unpleasant holiday season for some.
Finally, a funny note for the IT guys at the IRS. All this denial and attempt to keep saying it’s lost....I’d start looking for a new profession. Maybe call up the bait and tackle guys in Florida and see if you can get hired up for the clerk’s job.
If Issa is truly interested in the truth, and I’m not sure that he is, he will make sure that these investigators are clean as the wind driven snow and convince real Americans that it is so.
By the time all this gets done Lerner will be on a permanent vacation in some exotic south seas island in around 2024
And on this point:
What you don’t want to do is corrupt the pst file, and I think that’s why they are going real slow.
It's true. You want to be careful here. That might make it (possibly) a two hour job -- though, honestly, I can't see how: it's realistically a 5 minute job. I do it all the time.
They are saying this will take weeks. There is no GOOD reason for them to say that.
“Decoding to take weeks.”
That means they’re redacting everything important.
And why are the emails on tapes? Those can very easily be ruined.
Then again, if the government was honest, they would have their own backups in probably 5 locations around the country, including contracting with a few for added redundancy.
“decoding could take weeks”
Complete nonsense. Any compression algorithm of the backup is well known, so “decoding” should take a few milliseconds, not a few weeks.
This is just more typical obfuscation and foot-dragging from the Obammunist administration. The REAL reason this will take weeks is so the Obammunists can scrub all of the damaging emails.
If Congress had any balls, they’d demand the raw data be turned over to a select committee and let THEM redact any emails with personal data. Without that, Congress will just end up with sanitized pablum.
“Decoding”? What drivel is this
The emails were on a server. They are still on it or backed up. Either way when they were processed by the server and live on the server they were sent to the email CLIENT on whatever clients Lerner was using. She could have had one office machine, a machine at home, a tables, a laptop and phones. All these devices were receiving COPIES of the emails from the server or servers that handled the email traffic. On US government client computers she would not have had the option of setting any of her email clients to delete messages on the US government server. Even if she was able to set the client to only maintain emails for “X” number of days the server would not respond. All the emails are saved and all of them are backed up under law. Her office computer hard drive may have crashed, caught on fire or jumped in a lake. So what! That computer had zero to do with serving emails. Zero!
All “her” email data is there and has always been there.
Six years ago, my boss was backing up his HD at the office (AF unit) and we had a power flux....next thing we know....the back-up stops, and his entire PST was screwed up. Five years of messages gone. The back-up? We went to it and for some reason, the drive was corrupted.
Last year as I was leaving my gov’t job....I was in the midst of backing up my PST, which was way over the recommended size of ‘safety’. In essence, my backup went wrong, and I had to resort to a back-up from six months prior. The PST business is not a stable platform, in my opinion.
Actually, encrypting outgoing email is automatic if the proper plugin is enabled on your email client...like Voltage for MS Outlook.
I have watched very little of the hearings, but from the start it looked like Lerner was cya months and months or was it years ago.
Gee, just after the 2014 elections and two years before the 2016 elections. Whoda thunk?!
I just hope the emails have not been scrubbed. And I hope they contain enough details to get Lois Lerner and others convicted of criminal activity AND they generate enough rage to do away with the Internal Revenue Service.
Five years of email gone?
You went to THE backup??
You made a single backup in 5 years -- and re-writing over and over and over on the same backup file?
You know, it's a good practice to make frequent backups and have each one uniquely and sequentially identified so that if you lose one, you can go to another backup. You might (possibly) lose some information -- but losing 5 years of email because a single file had a problem? Ever consider RAID for reliability?
Yes. These emails are without question scrubbed. It takes a few months to comb through 30k inbox/sent/trash files.
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All of Lerner’s letters start out with “My Dear Wormwood”.
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