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IRS erased backups after realizing tea party emails lost
Associated Press ^
| Jun. 24, 2015 6:19 PM EDT
| Stephen Ohlemacher
Posted on 06/24/2015 3:29:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Government investigators say IRS employees erased computer backup tapes a month after officials discovered that thousands of emails related to the tax agencys tea party scandal had been lost.
The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.
The report is likely to fuel conspiracy theories among conservatives who say the IRS has obstructed congressional investigations into the scandal.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abolishirs; emailbackups; evidence; evidencetampering; irs; irsbackups; irscorrupt; irslawless; irsscandal; irsscandals; missingemails; mistake; mistakesweremade; obamalawless; obamascandals; oops; presflustercluck; tampering; teaparty
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Who investigates the investigators, eh?
The LORD rebuke you for editorializing, Ohlemacher.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:29:43 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Bull they erased the tapes on accident. WTF! know how hard it is to erase a tape on accident? lololol yea okay!
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:32:40 PM PDT
by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:34:05 PM PDT
by
Fungi
To: Olog-hai
This happens too often in this administration to be mere coincidence.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:35:29 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(A free society cannot let the parameters of its speech be set by murderous Islamists.)
To: Olog-hai
Bonuses for everybody!! Delete!! Delete!!
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:35:59 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
To: Olog-hai
Remember that Nixon lost his presidency over 18 minutes of erased tape out of thousands.
These guys erase anything and everything you ask for, run secret email systems, withhold documents until they’ve lost their last appeal and then erase them. And laugh in your face all the while.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:36:54 PM PDT
by
marron
To: Olog-hai
Government workers at the IRS and their boss Obama are unaccountable. Obama amd Obama’s IRS oppressed conservatives , obstructed justice and yet nothing has been done to any of them
This is tyranny.
And people still trust government .government is not accountable to anyone as this shows.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:38:27 PM PDT
by
Democrat_media
(Obama will use Obamatrade to import hundreds of millions of 3rd world people into the U.S.)
To: Olog-hai
So it’s a conspiracy theory that the scandal exists and its electronic footprints disappear not once, but twice?
AP gets tin foil hat award.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:38:28 PM PDT
by
bajabaja
(Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
To: Olog-hai
I had no doubt the IRS would degauss the email media than turn over criminally indictable evidence.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:39:50 PM PDT
by
Red Steel
To: Olog-hai
The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:40:02 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | Facebook: Hopalong Ginsberg | Instagram: hopalonginsberg)
To: Olog-hai
Conspiracy
theory ??
You gutt'a be shittin' me !
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:40:03 PM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Olog-hai
Fast and Furius... nothing
AP targetted... nothing
IRS... nothing
Benghazi... nothing
Secretary of State illegal email server... nothing
Republicans do nothing.
Nothing except:
introduce bills to “fix” Obamacare (offer tax subsidies)
push amnesty
give Obama TPA TPP
Republicans are no different than Democrats.
The Uniparty - everything for this in the party, nothing for those outside the party
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:41:42 PM PDT
by
Ray76
(Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
To: FreedomStar3028
“Tapes” are a very generic term used for any offsite media backup. With the modern cloud, it’s feasible that one could remove all of the vaults used to store data, but so much more would be lost than just these data sets unless they created vaults specifically for Tea Party emails.
If, however, they used magnetic media like tapes, yeah, that data’s not lost, and IIRC, groups like Iron Mountain are required to have additional media backups of critical data sets, depending on the contract. I’ve worked for hospitals, and I can tell you they have triplicate backups. The government is lying, plain and simple.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:42:13 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:43:09 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: Democrat_media
The will not be held accountable until all of them are decorating lamp posts.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:43:15 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: Noumenon
It is their untouchable criminal org status that made them the perfect government servants to enforce obamanation rule over America.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:45:17 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Is it really all relative, Mister Einstein?)
To: Olog-hai
[The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.]
Oh, OK.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:46:49 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
To: rarestia
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:48:04 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: FreedomStar3028
Bull they erased the tapes on accident. WTF! know how hard it is to erase a tape on accident? lololol yea okay! If they followed the Sarbanes Oxley burden they make businesses endure, they would have had to erase a hella lot of tapes to actually lose the data.
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:49:39 PM PDT
by
IamConservative
(There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
To: Olog-hai
ok so lets erase their jobs, erase their pensions and put them on trial under oath
WE LIVE IN A LAND OF NO LAWS.....
JUST POLITICAL ACTS
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posted on
06/24/2015 3:54:52 PM PDT
by
zzwhale
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