Search for Lois Lerner's lost emails leads to NSA

cbsnews.com ^ | 7/16/14 | Rebecca Kaplan

[cotton1706]

The House Armed Services Committee has come up with a creative approach to look for emails from embattled former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner that were apparently lost in a computer crash: they're asking the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Defense Department.

The panel approved a resolution Wednesday authored by Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, that directs the Secretary of Defense to send the House of Representatives "copies of any electronic communication in the possession of the Secretary, the Director of the National Security Agency, or any office that reports to the Secretary or the Director that was transmitted to or from any electronic mail account(s) used by former Internal Revenue Service Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner at any time between January 1, 2009, and April 30, 2011."

The IRS said last month that it could not locate many emails sent and received by Lerner - the official at the heart of the controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative groups - because her computer crashed in 2011. They were ultimately able to generate 24,000 emails from 2009 to 2011 by finding message where she had copied other employees.

The resolution hopes that perhaps the NSA - which apparently collected as many as 56,000 emails and other communications from Americans who had no connection to terrorism prior to 2013 - might have picked up some of the lost communications.

[Reeses]

Offer a few million bounty for the e-mails and an anonymous way to claim it and the e-mails will show up. The UK would be the most likely country to have the e-mails although China, Russia, Germany, Israel might have them also. The UK has an arrangement and special access to record the activities of all Americans in exchange for the NSA recording the activities of all British subjects. This was set up long ago to bypass legal restrictions.

[Twotone]

Why is no one talking about Sonasoft anymore? Weren’t they archiving the IRS’s emails up until a month after Lerner’s hard drive crashed? Wouldn’t they have turned over the archives back to the IRS upon termination of the contract?

[Socon-Econ]

Ask Putin. He probably has them on his iPhone.....................

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For sale to the highest bidder.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Somebody’s going to have to tunnel in. “

I would start inn Hawaii.