The IRS public relations dept. reminds me of the pet store owner trying to convince the parrot owner that the bird is not really dead, just resting, or the Emerald City guard telling Dorothy & friends that the Wizard just ain’t in:
“We’ve lost it, so sorry, go away, it’s missing, gone actually, try again later. We’re closed, too bad. Goodbye.”
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So, supposedly, just LOIS’S emails disappeared in a “crash” or “glitch”? Emails sent and received over a period of MONTHS and YEARS? And if you can suspend disbelief long enough to accept that such a magnitude of a crash could even occur, how is it that the epic disaster didn’t destroy anyone else’s emails but HERS?
We have to see the obvious. These emails were not lost from a server crash. They were painstakingly deleted in a way that no computer forensic investigator can detect there was something deleted. On the other hand, the NSA could produce my lost emails from my dead hard drive.
The other thing to do, I used to do while investigating, is analyze the firewall logs. Go back and filter those two years and search based on her IP or node name. And report on all SMTP (outgoing email protocol) traffic. This would give them a record of every instance when she sent an outbound email. It would also provide the IP address of the recipient. Then either search the recipient client mailbox (e.g. Obama, Holder) or check server backups and/or offsite of each node’s mailbox. Of course the IRS could say they dont use a firewall. Which would be another lie or crime.
Surely they are still on the drives of the recipients.
The disappearance is certainly feasible. It just can’t be accidental.
I know this is lame but even this stuff would put someone in prison.
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Now imagine what the pros can do to recover deleted files or missing data.
We see it every day in child porn cases where long ago deleted files are recovered.
Jail everyone involved starting with the top.
Exclude our resident Kenyan who’s name I forgot. He’d just pardon himself even if he couldn’t legally do that.