Posted on 06/24/2014 5:34:23 AM PDT by nhwingut
In Q and A with Rep. Chaffetz, Koskinen says agency did not pursue recovery because it was ‘costly’
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today convened a hearing with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen on the loss of former IRS official Lois Lerner’s email over a two year period. Under questioning from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), Koskinen said that the IRS made no effort to recover Lerner’s email archive from the six month backups after her initial computer problems in June of 2011.
Question & Answer with Rep. Chaffetz:
Chaffetz: Thank you Chairman, my understanding is that the backup of emails only lasted for six months, that’s correct?
Koskinen: Yes, it’s actually a disaster recovery system and it backs up for six months in case the entire system goes down.
C: And that was in place in 2011?
K: That was the rule in 2011. Policy.
C: So when Lois Lerner figured out on June 13th that her computer crashed, and there have been emails showing that she was going to great lengths to try to get that recovered, why didn’t they just go to that six month tape?
K: Because that six month tape is a disaster recovery tape that has all of the emails on it and is a very complicated tape to actually extract emails for, but I have not seen any emails to explain why they didn’t do it, so it would be difficult, but I don’t know why.
C: But you said the IRS was going to extraordinary lengths to give it to the recovery team, correct?
K: That’s correct.
C: But it’s backed up on tape.
K: For six months, yes.
C: And that was within the six month window, so why didn’t you get them off the backup?
K: All I know about that is that the backup tapes are disaster recovery tapes that put everything in one lump and extracting individual emails out of that is very costly and difficult. And that was not the policy at the time.
C: Did anybody try?
K: I have no idea or indication that they did.
C: So you have multiple emails showing she was trying to recover this, it’s the testimony of the IRS that they were trying desperately, in fact you got a forensic team to try to extract this, you went to great lengths, you made a big point over the last week about all the efforts you’re going through, but they were backed up on tape, and you didn’t do it?
K: As far as I know they did not, but they did have, as I noted, the emails, she had three months worth of emails at that time.
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They will never find out all ties to BO are always erased all of his records are sealed for a reason the liberal socialist need to keep him clean for their next guy in office it’s why the media covers for him and his party they waited far to many years to take control to let anything stop them.
Ted Kennedy smiles.
What are you talking about? They searched BOTH Facebook AND Twitter.....that's hard work!
He’s good too, but I didn’t get a chance to watch all of the hearing last night. Maybe you could summarize the main points.
As I’ve said before: An offer of a 10 million dollar tax free reward would most likely do wonders for finding the “lost/destroyed” Emails.
Are you refering to her stating that Issa may have an October surprise? I wiould not put too much faith in that guy - he is a squish. He should have had Lerner in cuffs a long time ago. Too bad Trey Gowdy is not in his place.
I think they should too, but it sounded like they canceled the contract with Sonasoft around this same time as the crash, so that Sonasoft could say they didn't have the backups. They need to follow up with who canceled this contract and why. They need to get the IRS IT techs and the storage company techs (this would not be Sonasoft, but one of the big guys - IBM, EMC, or HP, etc) to also testify and ask them all about storage and retrieval. There should be SOPs (standard operating procedures) in place for retrieving emails or any important data.
That’s the problem. Nobody goes to jail... ever. The few times it was tried the Media gets all sympathetic that some big mean, politically-motivated prosecutor is squeezing some innocent rube. Remember Judith (?) Miller, that journalist who sat in jail for contempt for protecting a source (a leaker)?
But if the small-time players had to start paying a personal price for participating in an ‘obstruction’ case, then we’d get to the bottom of these situations quickly and our government would be better, more ethical. The “big fish” would be naked in the same way that Nixon was in the end.
I am hoping that there is time for someone to come forward with info that will blow even Issaout
Didn’t some IRS employee say a while back that it would take 7 years to get the emails?
True the Vote group has put up a million dollar reward for information
from the inside, I can’t believe SOMEONE out of that BEAST of a department will not come forward!!!!!!
I think the dems think they got them all. I think Issa knows more than he’s saying. He’s setting up testimonies so he can prosecute liars.
Watching this asshole testify last night, it was obvious his “last week’s” smugness is rapidly fading. Watch the eyes, they tell all. Issa is getting close to finding the Pot o Gold at the end of the WhiteyHut rainbow.
As usual, a House of Cards can not stand long against a steady wind. Someone is fixing to break.
My suspicion on the demeanor change with the Commish, is “they” are growing mighty worried that all Lois’ emails are still intact somewhere within all the many backups. He knows good and well the bus just pulled up getting ready for his underside ride.
The “costly” the Commish is trying to divert/convince us about is $. The actual “costly” he means is the nuclear hit the WhiteyHut will take if the truth gets out.
Even if it is a disaster-recovery backup which can only be restored in full, not by individual mailbox, they could (fairly) easily restore the backup to a Recovery Storage Group for the purposes of mounting the database and retrieving the emails from an individual account.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124961%28v=exchg.65%29.aspx
In Court Room drama there is a lawyer adage, “never ask a question, you don’t already know the answer to”.
Elija Cummings is involved in this up to his eyeballs WHY is he even ALLOWED to be ANYWHERE near these hearings they ALL KNOW he is
involved!!!!!! I am enraged by ALL of this corruption in our government and
yet NOTHING being done about it!!!!! I pray everyday that someone from
our side doesn’t do something REALLY STUPID due to the anger and
feeling of being helpless to CHANGE anything!!!! This government has become SO CORRUPT it worries me that 1 unstable person will take matters into their own hands!!!!!
Right. And if you read the emails between the IT dweeb and Lerner, it makes for a bad B movie script. I mean, talk about bad actors. The verbiage and processes they described in the emails are fraudulent.
I like how the Rats are trying to turn it into a broader issue of government record keeping. They’re basically calling it a clerical issue instead of a cover up. The media will run with it, and the Sheeple will buy it. Rats are smart.
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