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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I used to work in IT (data warehousing, network engineering, server admin, programming, etc...).
These people are FULL of SHIT! Sorry for my French, but there is no other way to put it!
Backup tapes are restored on spare servers, it usually take one to two days (done automatically), and then you either copy/print the emails/recovered data back into place and Voila! Your done!
The cost is MINIMAL! The time is MINIMAL! The effort is MINIMAL!
This cover-up, this avoidance and this misdirection is MONUMENTAL!
What are you talking about? They searched BOTH Facebook AND Twitter.....that’s hard work!
Good one, and certainly what passes for “ investigative effort “ today :):)
It was not a witch hunt. Over sixty people eventually were convicted of felonies.
This is of interest:
From Article II of the Articles of Impeachment adopted by the House Judiciary Committee:
He [President Nixon] has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
Nixon was an unethical person who surrounded himself with similar people and paid the price for it. Everything that happened as a result of the Watergate investigation was well-deserved.
Nixon was an unethical person who surrounded himself with similar people and paid the price for it. Everything that happened as a result of the Watergate investigation was well-deserved.
Thanks for your commentary on the 60 people involved .
How do you feel about todays IRS scandal compared to Watergate ?
All indications point to justification for impeaching Obama and removing him from office.
I thought the same of Clinton, but the Senate failed to live up to their oaths of office.
Nixon's arrogance in believing that the could tape all conversations in the Oval Office without fear of accountability is probably matched by the arrogance of Obama's people believing that they can disappear years of emails.
If Lois Lerner is offered immunity and threatened with jail for continued silence, this could get interesting very quickly. It would also be very interesting if somebody anonymously supplied years of emails to Congress.
Yep. We did it that way for years. You design your mail stores in relatively manageable sizes and restore the whole thing. XMERGE will then excise the correct mailbox or its contents to a PST file which can be mounted by any Outlook client. It ain't rocket science.
Nixon’s arrogance in believing that the could tape all conversations in the Oval Office without fear of accountability is probably matched by the arrogance of Obama’s people believing that they can disappear years of emails.
If Lois Lerner is offered immunity and threatened with jail for continued silence, this could get interesting very quickly. It would also be very interesting if somebody anonymously supplied years of emails to Congress.
Good read on the situation. Hope your last paragraph comes true.
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