> NO notification from IRS to National Archives that records had been lost. Did IRS break the law?
Archivist says he is not a lawyer. Did say that law was not followed.
Too stupid to realize he just got sucker punched...
My take is that he was just being very careful with what he could testify to within his actual knowledge. The important point was made - the law related to preservation of records WAS most likely broken.
I’ve worked with several federal agencies. These people are full of crap. When they found that her disk had “crashed” they had near time copies on media. They could have restored the data easily. Or, if there was a problem they could have simply copied the tape and set it aside.
What is interesting is that several people connected to Lerner had their hard drives “crash”. If that happened about the same time then given simple math no conclusion can be other than someone intentionally tampered with evidence.
An administration with regard to the rule of law would call for a special prosecutor. The punk won’t do that though.