Posted on 06/25/2014 1:35:12 PM PDT by jazusamo
Apparently this wasn’t just an isolated innocent: a second federal agency is also having trouble finding emails that a congressional committee is demanding in order to fulfill its oversight responsibilities:
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS share a problem: officials say they cannot provide the emails a congressional committee has requested because an employee’s hard drive crashed.EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy confirmed to the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that her staff is unable to provide lawmakers all of the documents they have requested on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, because of a 2010 computer crash.
“We’re having trouble getting the data off of it and we’re trying other sources to actually supplement that,” McCarthy said. “We’re challenged in figuring out where those small failures might have occurred and what caused them occur, but we’ve produced a lot of information.”
The committee suspects that Phillip North, who worked for the EPA in Alaska, decided with his colleagues to veto the proposed Pebble Mine near Bristol Bay in 2009, before the agency even began researching its potential impacts on the environment.Committee staffers have been trying for about a year to interview North, but he has been in New Zealand and refuses to cooperate, they said.
“We have tried to serve a subpoena on your former employee and we have asked for the failed hard drive from this Alaskan individual who now is in New Zealand, and seems to never be returning,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, said Wednesday.
Emails provided by the committee show that EPA told congressional investigators about the hard drive crash months ago. But McCarthy said she only told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) about the problem Tuesday.
Ah, so the guy Issa’s been trying to subpoena for alleged criminal wrongdoing is living in a foreign country and ignoring his inquires. Meanwhile, the hard drive that might have stored potentially incriminating emails on it has conveniently “crashed.”
Any takers on what the third federal agency will be to accidentally “lose” relevant and potentially damaging internal emails? It’s only a matter of time.
// Pretty soon all e-mails of every FedMob agency for all time will turn out to be lost forever. //
It sounds like a spreading viral syndrome!
They’re like little kids: if an excuse works, they stay on it.
If this works for them, I want it to work for me.
Yep, at least the emails that can prove any kind of corruption or criminality.
Yeah, if you or I tried that the FBI would march into court with a complete reconstruction of every keystroke we’ve made for the last 25 years. It would probably take them two or three weeks.
a complete reconstruction of every keystroke —
my typing will now slow down as i type everything using my middle fingers only
as a hidden message to the fbi
LOL They know you’re doing that!
And they have just about finished destroying America.
There apparently is zero accountability in government. we knew this now they prove it.
Someone at the link posted this.
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