Posted on 06/21/2014 2:21:02 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it can't provide emails sent between 2009 and 2011 that were requested by congressional investigators because of hard drive crashes.
The agency said that emails stored on dead drives were lost forever because its email backup tapes were recycled every six months, and employees were responsible for keeping their own long-term archives.
The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005, according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for "automatic data processing services." Sonasoft's motto is "email archiving done right," and the company lists the IRS as a customer.
In 2009, Sonasoft even sent out a Tweet advertising its work for the IRS...
(Excerpt) Read more at reason.com ...
Don’t forget that one of the problems Lerner has is that she did some of her company work on her personal computer. That by itself might get her prosecuted unless she has a permission letter to do that. The confidentiality nature of gummint records pretty much precludes “taking work home”. If the beeeitch did any mouth-shooting on her laptop she will be dead meat for that alone. And since it’s started she can’t outlive the statute of limitations by waiting for a friendly administration. Some eagerbeaver US Attorney is going to eat her lunch.
Yes, you are wrong about that. Deleted emails are not ‘deleted’. They are only removed from your active list. They still exist.
Check this out:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3170667/posts?page=14#5
Just what I was going to say. We got the Treason party and the Treason lite party and Obama knows it which is why he does whatever the hell he likes. The guy released 5 enemy commanders in a clear case of blatant treason, and notice how it’s now fading into the background like it never happened.
IBM:
“Total transactions for fiscal year 2012: 168
Total funding (within this search) for the year: $47,741,187”
For every1 Republican scandal it takes 50 or 60 demcRat scandals to start sinking in with the Lo-Fos. Thanks to the Media.
These elite bureaucrats demand the newest and the best.
I doubt LL used the same “old” PC, for several years straight...
“Issa’s contact page does not accept contact from persons outside his district.”
I think all the representatives’ contact pages are set up that way now.
Congressman Brad Sherman pulls this same crap, too. At his town halls, he REFUSES to take questions from audience members who are not from his district.
I got so frustrated with this that, at one of his townhalls, I just shouted: “YOUR VOTES AFFECT EVERYONE!!!!!”
Everyone in the room applauded.
:)
Contract #78541e88b078ad8a21d05f25bef579bf does refer to data storage, and would probably cover much of the period in question.
No kidding. Buuuuump!
bump
The thing about the Sonasoft contract is that it is very small, $13,000. I would guess handling backup of 100,000 employees’ emails would be a much bigger deal than that.
Busted!
This needs to get to Issa & he needs to subpoena Sonasoft’s archive of IRS email!
Several people have mentioned that now - I am wondering if anyone here actually has sent the excellent observations and suggestions to their Congresscritters.
I’d suggest registered letters. In a time when anyone can fire off an email, someone taking the time and expense to bring something to their critters attention goes on the priority pile.
>> Nothing will come of this because there is no opposition party anymore....
Yup, the circus and its investigating clowns could have easily nailed this months ago, but they didn’t.
The public is being played.
If these people say they lost the IRS E-mails then they will be out of business. OTOH, if they did their job, then all the e-mails are sitting in their servers.
At this point they appear to be keeping their mouths shut. Unless they were told to destroy them, then they are there. Every last one of them. And if they were told to destroy them, then it it SHTF time.
My guess is she didn’t use government Email servers for these communications. The servers could be free anonymous accounts if that’s the case. The key is finding out what the email address was. If it can be identified there’s a chance the emails are backed up by the hosting company. Her computer identified her account so it had to go...
The IP address of her computer, or office at a minimum, would likely be known. That IP address could be searched for in the various free hosting companies and that could expose her Email account(s) and then the Emails.
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