Watchdog: IRS erased backups after loss of tea party emails

Yahoo News ^ | 24 Jun 2015 | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER

[mandaladon]

The investigators, however, concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake, not as part of an attempt to destroy evidence.................How convenient

[CivilWarBrewing]

How many of us have erased our computer hard drives by mistake? That's what I thought..

More FELONIES committed by the criminal regime.

[tcrlaf]

So, WHO is already in handcuffs over this??

OH...
WAIT...

[Pollster1]

I agree. The claim that they erased the evidence “by mistake” was funny in a grim way. I don’t have the guts to try it the next time the IRS audits me, but I’m sure the liberal media will accept their story.

[Will88]

This is a confusing story. We’ve been told that backup tapes were found a few months back, and then just a week or two ago, we were told that those still had not been released because the IRS was going through them so they wouldn’t release any duplicates, or some absurd nonsense.

Hard to know what the status of the backups is or isn’t.

[BwanaNdege]

What part of “Backup” is so difficult to understand?

My guess is anyone in IT with a lick of sense would require a written order by competent authority to erase backup data storage.

[The Antiyuppie]

“concluded that employees erased the tapes by mistake,”

One hand watches the other.

I’m very sorry, investigators, but NO ONE IS ACTUALLY SO STUPID/GULLIBLE/MISGUIDED AS TO BELIEVE THE ABOVE STATEMENT. NOT EVEN A DEMOCRAT. NO ONE. IT ISN’T WORKING.

[Major Matt Mason]

Yes, but I think those that we refer to as GOPe are completely on board with it.

[SaveFerris]

Gee, it almost sounds like destruction of evidence.

Odd, that.

[The Antiyuppie]

I have made it clear to my management chain that I will only delete critical information upon receipt of written permission by an officer of the company. I believe that this is SOP in most businesses.

[xzins]

Yes, employees thinking that tapes full of data being collected for some reason were supposed to be erased.

That makes perfect sense to me. Employee thinking: “Tape full of data and it isn’t my tape...Well, I am at work, and it’s just sitting there...I think I’ll erase it.”

/sarc

[Opinionated Blowhard]

NO ARRESTS YET.

[kaehurowing]

Paging Rosemary Woods, come to the white courtesy telephone please.

[The Antiyuppie]

Hard to believe all of that nastiness over the 18 minutes of audio tape some years ago in the light of today’s events, isn’t it? It seems almost quaint.

[MNDude]

My understanding is that backup tapes are not even designed to be erased, rather more tapes are purchased as more are needed. Can anyone in IT verify this?

[Roland]

Maybe it was a mistake. But you know damn well that if you or I had done this with personal property it would result in a contempt charge.

[txrefugee]

One backup tape erased by mistake may be plausible. But 422 of these incriminating tapes? That’s a shameful insult and someone should be frog-marched to the nearest federal prison for that outrageous lie.

[HLPhat]

That’s ok. I passed the audit after 9/12 anyhow.

[Jumper]

I believe that in Microsoft Exchange Server, that while the Email itself is erased, that the headers of each Email sent can still be retrieved. In the past while working overseas at the Dept of State, I was able to retrieve important parts of Emails even though they were deleted by the user(s).

Why does the government and all its employees work off the same scripts, and where are the honest IGs and EEO employees?

[Vince Ferrer]

How many of us have erased our computer hard drives by mistake? That's what I thought..

Odd that they never delete all the information they have on us.