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IRS says it lost key Lerner emails Agency blames 2011 hard drive crash for data loss
Washington Times copied onto rightscoopblog ^ | June 13 2014 | By Stephen Dinan, Washington Times writer

Posted on 06/13/2014 1:53:03 PM PDT by PoloSec

I’m gonna just go ahead and say this is nothing but a bunch of HOOEY:

WASHINGTON TIMES – The IRS told Congress on Friday that it has lost some of former employee Lois G. Lerner’s emails, including some covering communications with Democrats in Congress and with other parts of the government, according to the House’s top tax-law writer.

Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, said he was stunned that it took more than a year into the investigation for the IRS to inform Congress that it didn’t have those emails.

The agency blamed a computer crash for the mishap.

“The fact that I am just learning about this, over a year into the investigation, is completely unacceptable and now calls into question the credibility of the IRS’s response to congressional inquiries,” Mr. Camp said. “There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

The IRS is obviously steeped in corruption. If this isn’t an argument to abolish the IRS, I don’t know what is.


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To: PoloSec

How likely was that? I predicted a long time ago they would lose those exact files to a computer glitch.


41 posted on 06/13/2014 2:29:10 PM PDT by ully2
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To: Delta Dawn
Government email is not like a personal email account. By law, it needs to be backed up and archived.

Are they admitting here that her communications were done on her personal computer? (which would also be illegal)

42 posted on 06/13/2014 2:44:47 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (Tea: A beverage best served cold. With RINO meat.)
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To: chajin

As a former datamanagement professional I agree 100% with your assessment ,, there are literally hundreds of backups that have the data on them ,, full dumps of mail servers on both the sending and receiving ends and countless incremental backups...

I’d say it’s time to send all of them to jail,, including the mouthpiece that had the temerity to issue this statement.


43 posted on 06/13/2014 2:55:36 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Diogenesis

Must have taken a lot of hard PROFILING
and meticulous EFFORT to scrub the
drives and servers clean.

THAT is obstruction of justice.
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Absolutely ... the GOP should issue a reward for information. This is not possible.


44 posted on 06/13/2014 2:58:45 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: PoloSec

If you like your emails, you can keep your emails.

And if you don’t like your emails ... we will make them disappear.


45 posted on 06/13/2014 3:07:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: PoloSec

I say hang one of them each day until they produce the emails.


46 posted on 06/13/2014 3:21:56 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Anything is possible, if you don't know what you're talking about.)
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To: PoloSec


47 posted on 06/13/2014 3:26:01 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The Obamas' Black skin has morphed into Teflon thanks to the Obama Media)
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To: PoloSec

ok……………..never mind


48 posted on 06/13/2014 3:28:27 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: PoloSec

Unless the hard disk is actually melted or very severely damaged (physically), data can be retrieved from it about 90% of the time.


49 posted on 06/13/2014 3:29:58 PM PDT by navyguy (The National Reset Button is pushed with the trigger finger.)
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To: PoloSec

America is run by three year olds.


50 posted on 06/13/2014 3:33:26 PM PDT by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: PoloSec

The committee needs to start collecting names of all the IRS employees involved with this, so that when there is a Republican POTUS, and Republican appointed federal prosecutors, that there will be a strong effort to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law, even if retired.


51 posted on 06/13/2014 3:44:24 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: PoloSec

Mark Levin gave some good advice about how to handle this tonight the first half hour of his radio show.


52 posted on 06/13/2014 3:45:20 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather (Yuri Bezmenov (KGB Defector) - "Kick The Communists Out of Your Govt. & Don't Accept Their Goodies.")
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To: Seaplaner

Even the iotas are missing... go figure.


53 posted on 06/13/2014 3:58:21 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Nixon prolly taking notes.

Nixon was an amateur!

54 posted on 06/13/2014 4:00:23 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Carbonite?


55 posted on 06/13/2014 4:04:02 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: PoloSec

This suggests that they do not have a modern email archival system that ‘petrifies’ records as they are processed. For the organizations involved I would find that unimaginable.


56 posted on 06/13/2014 4:06:26 PM PDT by The Duke ("Forgiveness is between them and God, it's my job to arrange the meeting.")
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To: PoloSec
The remake of the movie Sabrina had a great line. The Maude Larabee character incredulously says to her son David Larabee after another BS story-— "Do I look stupid? I never thought of myself as stupid, but maybe I am"

This administration is so full of BS and treating us the exact same way. They truly think we are a bunch of Maude Larabees.

57 posted on 06/13/2014 4:15:55 PM PDT by nicksaunt
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To: PoloSec

Do a SWAT raid on the IRS and confiscate all data, at all levels.


58 posted on 06/13/2014 4:45:50 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: Delta Dawn

These agencies send all data to central servers that are backup all over the place. There is no excuse. We need to lock down the server rooms.


59 posted on 06/13/2014 4:48:35 PM PDT by SgtHooper (This is not my tag!)
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To: FatherofFive
Independent prosecutors

Are you kidding?

Why? So that ths can disappear into that black hole of "I can't comment on an ongoing investigation ..."

Or maybe so that it can disappear for the next 3 yearws under a gag order an produce a book at the end that nobody will read because everyone has moved on to other scandals?

No. A Joint Select Committee just like Benghazi has that can be splashed across every camera in existence!

60 posted on 06/13/2014 4:50:42 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions, led by a deer.)
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