Lois Lerner’s Hard Drive Was SHREDDED

dailycaller ^ | June 25, 2015 | Patrick Howley

[PROCON]

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner’s hard drive most likely crashed due to “an impact of some sort,” like somebody hitting it or smashing it, according to new congressional testimony.

Then the hard drive was shredded and its pieces were sold for scrap.

Lerner’s laptop, which crashed on June 11, 2011 between 5 and 7 PM, was sent to an IT technician two days later. The Hewlett-Packard technician looking at her laptop determined that the hard drive failed because of an impact of some sort.

[PROCON]

The IRS claims that it is still trying to “de-duplicate” the emails so that Oversight won’t have to sort through multiple copies of the same emails. The IRS claims that destroying “de-duplicating” Lerner’s emails could take a long time.

Fixed it.

Corrupt SOB's.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

What about the server? NSA?

[ForYourChildren]

When do people start going to jail?

[PROCON]

When do people start going to jail?

Hopefully late January, 2017.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Crime pays in D.C.

It pays very well indeed.

[CondorFlight]

Obstruction of justice, evidence tampering,
spoilation of evidence, perjury, etc. etc.

But never mind, I’m sure no one at the IRS was implicated...

[ClearCase_guy]

Although you CAN put copies of your emails on your local hard drive, the primary storage for all email is on a server to which you simply don’t have physical access — unless you are a Very Powerful Person who is willing to break laws to destroy evidence.

[The Right wing Infidel]

Hard drives are extremely tough and hard to break , it takes alot of force to smash one.

You can drop a hard drive two stories high and it will barely dent

[Logical me]

So?

[The Right wing Infidel]

Also are you trying to tell me that the data was not backed up on a server or another hard drive? Yeah right

[dainbramaged]

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly referred to as the RICO Act or simply RICO, is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

[PROCON]

So?

It sounds that some are so used to the Obama regime corruption, they just shrug their shoulders.

[The Right wing Infidel]

Important data like this is backed up on a data center somewhere or by using raid , i am not buying that anybody can be so incompetent to not back up data like this

[dragnet2]

The government shreds everything which might be uncomfortable or cause issues.

[The Right wing Infidel]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-25/irs-deleted-backups-24000-lois-lerner-emails-months-after-subpoena

seems like the irs deleted the backups, oh gee what a coincidence

[servantboy777]

I will vote for the most conservative candidate and the candidate that vows to eliminate this unAmerican agency and restructure the tax code.

Go Ted Cruz!

[Steely Tom]

If the information on some hard drive could hurt a Republican, the Democrats in congress would subpoena literally hundreds of people - if not thousands - to discover the entire chain of custody of the hard drive. Everyone who had anything to do with IT in the entire executive branch (let alone the IRS) would be placed in fear of their career and possibly their freedom if they didn't come up with a name for who damaged the hard drive. That person would then be called to testify as to who gave the order to smash the hard drive.

And BTW, I worked in the government. It is inconceivable that a hard drive could even be removed from a computer - let alone shredded - without all kinds of paperwork filled out and many signatures obtained.

Besides, this whole thing is ridiculous.

Government computers use Outlook or other mail servers. E-mail is backed up on remote machines with multiple redundancy RAID drives, the very best money can buy. That I know for a fact.

What I am not so sure about is files not devoted to e-mails. But I strongly - strongly - suspect that external backups are made of all those, on a weekly basis at least.

Again, those backups would be made on remote, multiply redundant RAID and SAN equipment, the very latest you can get, from Cisco, 3COM, and the like.

This whole thing is preposterous.

If the information in question could be used to damage a Republican administration, by now that entire administration would have been brought to its knees. Not a thing would be getting done on any Presidential initiatives, because everyone in the executive branch would be either under subpoena, or preparing information to help someone who was under subpoena, or leaving to write a book, or talking to the Democrat special prosecutor, or talking to some Washington Post reporter in a parking garage somewhere.

[__rvx86]

What’s 280-350 G-force like?

[PROCON]

Anyone who doesn’t believe that these “lost emails” go to the highest offices in the White House is naïve and a fool.

[dragnet2]

They don’t smash them. They shred stuff like hard drives with industrial sized shredders. They could shred a toaster like it was tissue.

Of course we know the emails/data still exist.