Posted on 07/19/2014 10:41:07 AM PDT by Innovative
The IRS declared under oath and penalty of perjury on Friday that Lois Lerner’s hard drive is irrecoverable after being wiped clean by tech staff and recycled with an outside contractor, according to a court filing.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
You're essentially correct, but omitted a few of steps. . . The drive was sent to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where it underwent a massive Electromagnetic Pulse, it was then returned to Washington, D.C., where the platters were exposed to the unprotected bile of Hillary Clinton, which has been scientifically proven to be more acerbic than fluoroantimonic acid. It was then subjected to 200 simultaneous, non-stop recordings of Barack Hussein Obama campaign promises. Only when it was smoking, was doused in a bucket of official Harry Reid Senate Excrement. THEN, it was sent to a "Certified Major Obama Donor" contractor for further processing. . .
NEVER forget the shipping and "handling". . .
I just had a thought. Considering the potentially explosive contents of that drive, do you suppose the IRS failed to perform the proper Environmental Impact Studies, failed to file the proper permits, before they threw this hazardous waste in the volcano?
IRS criminal division official Eggas described how an unnamed senior analyst with more than 25 years of forensic data recovery experience was unsuccessful in recovering the data, and sent it back to the original service unit.
When that failed, “the hard drive was degaussed and then batched with other miscellaneous equipment (equipment whose inventory is not tracked by bar code tags) and transferred to an external recycling contractor for destruction and recycling.”
The testimony says “degaussing” involves “using a device employing magnetism and is designed to permanently erase data contained on magnetic data storage devices like a hard disk.”
The drive was sent to a criminal forensics lab for analysis and data recovery, and no one recorded the serial number of the drive. What kind of "criminal unit forensics lab" handles evidence this way?
And chooses which federal "services" it wishes to enroll in.
They threw it into the West Mata volcano which is in International waters 1100 meters below the surface, so permits weren't required. The EPA, along with the Justice Department has concurred with the normal disposal of non-smidgen items.
According to the testimoney of that lyin’ head of the IRS, the backups to the servers were being made to tape drives.
Because of the horrible anti-IRS GOP budget cuts, the $1.8BILLION budget for IRS IT was just so paltry they couldn’t buy more blank tapes.
Hence, they only kept backups for 6 months. Adios Lerner emails!!
Oh, those paper printouts were also shredded or not kept according to law either.
So it goes, laws are only for the little peeps, not the ELITE!!
I presume the plaintiffs will tell the court this was a “bull account”, not a “full account”. “Er, your honor, we can’t produce the evidence because we deliberately destroyed it”, just doesn’t seem adequate.
Plaintiffs should petition the court for answers to these and other obvious questions:
Names, titles, contact info of personnel who did the “recovery” work = ?
Names, etc., of everyone gave them instructions = ?
Written instructions?
Date “crash” incident first reported?
Recovery efforts performed when?
Produce all communications involving the files, recovery, etc.
Were the personnel involved aware of the FOIA requests and subpoenas for the documents on the “hard drives”?
Detailed explanation of efforts made to recover the files from other sources — servers and message recipients = ?
Did Lois Lerner or others involved use Blackberry devices, or other computers, phones, etc. to communicate about or matters related to the FOIA requests and suits?
Where are those communications?
Why did the IRS pay for a data backup service if they didn’t use it?
Why did the IRS suddenly cancel that service?
Excellent point.....its an E-mail Server.........not on your PC.
Licensed to your PC, but stored on the Server.
But they could afford bonuses.
The emails weren’t JUST on Lois Lerner’s damn harddrive.
They were also on the harddrives of everyone in the email chain who sent or received a message in the TWO-WAY conversation.
This “dog ate my homework” sh!t won’t fly.
The emperor looks down his nose at all of you, saying nothing he waves his middle finger in your general direction as he boards Air Force 1, and heads up to Martha’s Vineyard to join Michelle who arrived yesterday with her 100 personal staff for a much needed 2 week vacation.
Someone received all these e-mails. Where are their hard drives?
Z Street: The Case Which Could Blow Open The IRS Scandal
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/07/19/z-street-the-case-which-could-blow-open-the-irs-scandal/
From the article: “An IT specialist who had been there since 2007 and received regular IT technical training, inspected the laptop and “determined that the hard drive on the laptop was not operating properly.”
The specialist tried to recover data but “all of the … efforts to recover any data were unsuccessful.”
That’s what the person who filed the report with the court said, under oath.
So the next step is to call in that IT specialist who had been there since 2007,” put him under oath and see if his testimony is consistent. He should, for example have an insight as to whether the drive had crashed, or was just wiped clean before he got it. Put him under oath and let’s see exactly what he found when he got his hands on the drive. Who knows? He might even admit under oath that he did the erasing himself. After all, someone did a pretty good job on it somewhere.
” In that case the techs would have installed a new hard drive into Lerner’s computer and then restore Lerner’s backed up data onto the new hard drive to restore the drive (remember Lerner is a VERY high level IRS employee and the IRS is legally obligated to preserve her data). The paperwork implies that back up data required to restore the drive was in existence and should have been loaded to Lerner’s new drive when they could not load the back ups onto her ‘failed” drive to restore it.’
Exactly!
“How stupid are the congress men & women (and senators) if they fall for this. Does NO one have someone on staff that’s graduated from college in the last quarter of a century?”
My thoughts exactly!!!!!!!!!!!
JFK gave a dire warning to the press in April 27, 1961.
“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence—on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”
The President and the American Newspaper Publishers Association
President John F. Kennedy, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City
4/27/1961
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=97n-uqJC2Jw
The point is that they could have recovered the emails from the Blackberries immediately when the computers crashed. They weren’t lost at all.
Lois certainly was, she was seeking to communicate in ways that circumvented the FOIA requests...
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