Mark Levin Show,M-F,6PM-9PM,EDT,WABC AM, June 9-13, 2014

“Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.” --Mark Levin in Liberty and Tyranny

It would be almost impossible to have these e/mails come up missing.

Ima nerd. A real nerd. Not a script kiddie pc overhyped ‘nerd’. Nerds like me read the 1s and 0s of computers and networks.

e/mail is NOT on the hard drive of your computer. A copy of your e/mail might be. But the e/mail is on a (usually) dedicated computer (‘e/mail server’). The e/mail server receives e/mail, sends e/mail, stores e/mail and distributes e/mail to recipients. Many (if not most) companies use a Microsoft product, ‘exchange’.

Think about this. When you access your e/mail on your desktop pc, a COPY of your e/mail is sent to your computer and stored on your hard drive. You turn off your desktop computer and hit mcdonald’s for a big mac. While there, you check your e/mail and see the same content on your smartphone or tablet. That e/mail DID NOT come from the hard drive on your desktop pc. You powered that computer off before you left. The e/mail displayed on your smartphone is a copy from the e/mail server.

If your house burns down while at mcdonald’s, your e/mail is STILL on the e/mail server. So it CANNOT be that the hard drive on her desktop computer ‘lost’ the e/mail. That is an amateurish lie.

Next, any half competent computer support staff has backup copies of the e/mail. Retention periods might vary and depending on the method used to back up the e/mail, keeping EVERY backup would be a huge amount of redundant data. Interestingly, the irs itself mandates retention periods for many types of data. I am unsure if there is any law governing retention of e/mail data, though I seem to recall that there is such a law.

Backups are a central part of disaster recovery at every datacenter. Usually, one copy is retained at the datacenter and another copy is stored at an offsite facility. Every systems programmer (like me) has played ‘how would you wipe out every information asset at the company and not get caught.’ while at happy hour. It is not an easy thing to do even for the most trusted users at a datacenter, the systems programmers.

I assume lerner used a single e/mail account. (Unlike that epa crook that used an outside account to conduct government business.) if I heard correctly, lerner’s e/mail internally (from within the irs) was NOT lost. ONLY e/mail that came in from servers other than the irs. (crook@irs.gov would be an internal irs e/mail, criminal@senate.gov would be an external e/mail server.) I have NEVER heard of any e/mail server that segregates the e/mail for one account by its origin. All e/mail for lernerbish@irs.gov would be mingled in the same e/mail data file. Losing ONLY external e/mail does not make sense.

The internal and external sourced e/mail is NOT stored on separate hard drives on the e/mail server. But even if they found some way to do that, more accounts than lernerbish@irs.gov would be lost.

Ok e/mail servers use hard drives. What about losing that hard drive?

As stated above, it would contain internal AND external e/mails. BUT. An e/mail server of any size (irs would be large servers) does not just write data to a single hard drive and hope it does not crash. Hard drives are cheap and dense. They hold a LOT of data. Losing one hard drive loses a ton of data. So most ‘servers’ do not simply store data on a single drive. Hard drives are the bottleneck of servers because they are relatively slow accessing the data on them.

Servers use a storage method that allows you to logically view a ‘hard drive’, but the underlying physical configuration is not one hard drive. Most people refer to the storage method as a ‘raid’ array. One raid method is simply to have two hard drives, each mirroring the other. If one crashes, the other hard drive is identical and the server continues to function and NO data is lost. There are more complex configurations of raid arrays with several hard drives sharing the work of storing the data that logically looks like one hard drive. Most raid arrays have the benefit of speeding up the access time to the data AS WELL AS providing fault tolerance. Lose one or more hard drives in the raid array and NO DATA IS LOST.

Deleting an e/mail DOES NOT delete it on the e/mail server. You won’t see that e/mail ever again but it is NOT deleted on the e/mail server.

e/mail accounts have your ‘indox’ and a ‘deleted items’ (or trash) folders. But it ALSO has a ‘SENT’ folder. Losing her inbox? Let’s pretend that could happen. Get her ‘sent’ folder. Anything she replied to and any e/mail she originated will be in there.

This is also VERY important. If you and are having an e/mail exchange, your inbox will have an e/mail each time I reply to the e/mail. MY ‘sent’ folder will have that SAME e/mail. Your e/mail server (tgo@thebunker.com) will have the e/mails in our conversation. But MINE WILL TOO! sloop@ahole.com e/mail server will have copies of the SAME e/mails. Both the e/mails I get from you AND the e/mails I send you. If lernerbish@irs.gov was sending e/mails to an EXTERNAL recipient, that SAME e/mail would be on that external server too.

Though it could NEVER happen in our country, pretend she was sending e/mails to a member of congress, coordinating an attack on a citizen that disagreed with them politically. I know, that is pretty far out there but let’s pretend it could happen. The ‘MISSING’ e/mails would have to be ‘missing’ from the external server too. If not, the e/mails could be retrieved from the e/mail server like…oh…say… democrapcriminal@senate.gov.

These are not complex concepts to understand. Issa could probably grasp them, though I’d probably have to draw pictures for him.

Please find a way to get someone on that committee to find a KNOWLEDGIBLE nerd with an understanding of both the hardware and software of e/mail servers to explain the concepts. Even a rookie nerd knows the story we are being told is a LIE. But its also important that they know that the irs thugs MIGHT be able to delete data from the e/mail servers THEY control. They CANNOT delete the e/mail from servers external to the irs if they are not the administrator of those servers.

Not likely that congress will allow an examination of their e/mail servers. They would be humiliated if the public knew the perverted flavors of porn they favor. (I hear ole thaddy knows his way around the barnyard…jus sayin…) Nonetheless, those e/mails would have been on the senate’s e/mail server and probably still are. Or on the backups of that e/mail server.

Also, anyone that was carbon copied…or blind carbon copied…

Now I was a systems programmer but I have a wide range of experience on both the hardware and software of computers and networks. But I have never been an e/mail ‘administrator’. So this is speculation. But I’d bet my left gonad its fact.

e/mail servers (I bet) have a log file of the activity performed by the server. ‘lernerbish@irs.gov invalid password attempt. ‘lernerbish@irs.gov logged on’. And such. Each with a date and timestamp. That log would have a record such as ‘lernerbish@irs.gov sent to democrapcriminal@senate.gov’. and ‘receiving from abuse@whitehouse.gov to lernerbish@irs.gov. the log would not have the content of the e/mails but it would show with whom she was communicating and the extent of the communication.

My crew and I are visiting Mississippi. Doing a little sumpin sumpin for mcdaniel. Headed to the printers in the morning. Need some ‘I want ewe to vote for thaaaaaaaaaad. Best gosh darn stump trainer in DC.’ Hope its not an extra charge for a sheep graphic.

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