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Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away"
Townhall.com ^ | 6/19/2014 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/19/2014 5:26:29 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

According to a report published late last night in POLITICO, the hard drive belonging to Lois Lerner where the IRS claims her emails to outside agencies and groups like the White House, Department of Justice, FEC, Democrat members of Congress, etc. were stored has been...destroyed.

Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.

“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.

So now the IRS wants us to believe Lerner's emails were only stored on her personal hard drive? And not on a backup server somewhere? Come on. Further, why is it that Lerner has emails to employees in the IRS, but her hard drive just happened to "crash" between January 2009-April 2011 and only on the emails to outside sources?

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa didn't buy the excuse when the "lost" emails were announced late last week. Now he's implying the emails were deliberately made to disappear, which is a violation of federal law.

"If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about 'losing' e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception," Issa said in a statement to Fox News. "Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don't just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention."

Things just got a lot more criminal.

The latest news suggests such professionals may never get the chance to try again — and the IRS has even said its criminal investigators who specialize in rebuilding hard drives to recover hidden information from criminals were unable to restore the data back in 2011.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoirs; corrupt; corruptdems; coverup; dncrico; harddrive; irsrico; lerner; lernerrico; liars; obamarico
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1 posted on 06/19/2014 5:26:29 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
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To: Servant of the Cross

I believe their rules call for hard copies.


2 posted on 06/19/2014 5:27:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Servant of the Cross

Find who the emails went to or were from the emails should still be in those other places.


3 posted on 06/19/2014 5:28:09 AM PDT by The Louiswu (One brave man, that's all we need.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Just last month the IRS commissioner testified that the emails had been archived.


4 posted on 06/19/2014 5:28:38 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html

No one believes them on Politico. Nearly 10,000 comments as of now.


5 posted on 06/19/2014 5:29:17 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I work in IT

Had to impound hard drives from people’s computer;s for
legal reasons- usually after been fired and using that for
case against them (Ie having porn on drive, evidence of
fraud, etc)


6 posted on 06/19/2014 5:29:25 AM PDT by njslim (T)
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To: Servant of the Cross

The hard drive is just a diversion. Backups are the answer, assuming they haven’t been surgically removed, which is what I think has happened; or at least what the other side tried to accomplish.


7 posted on 06/19/2014 5:29:35 AM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: Servant of the Cross

Can you say: “OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE?”


8 posted on 06/19/2014 5:29:54 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

destroyed hard drive


9 posted on 06/19/2014 5:29:58 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Servant of the Cross

Emails get archived on servers. You just have to find out which one.


10 posted on 06/19/2014 5:30:00 AM PDT by McGruff (What if we bombed our own citizens?)
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To: The Louiswu

I bet all the hard drives have been destroyed.


11 posted on 06/19/2014 5:30:50 AM PDT by dalebert
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To: Sacajaweau
Rules? .... in 0bama world ... we don't need no stinkin' rules.
12 posted on 06/19/2014 5:30:57 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

If someone thought destroying the hard drive and the information on it would protect the president, it won’t. If anything it will convince more people that there is something they want to hide, and that something has to be pretty serious. This will haunt Obama till the end of his term.


13 posted on 06/19/2014 5:31:03 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: McGruff

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/06/17/irs-regulations-require-e-mails-that-are-federal-records-to-be-stored-in-separate-permanent-system/


14 posted on 06/19/2014 5:31:21 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Servant of the Cross

The hard drive is irrelevant. The server backups should have everything necessary, or the IT guys have committed a federal felony.


15 posted on 06/19/2014 5:32:02 AM PDT by kevkrom (I'm not an unreasonable man... well, actually, I am. But hear me out anyway.)
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To: McGruff

Yup. Gone hard drive is a diversion, and a stupid one at that - email servers keep emails for years......

Why aren’t the IT experts screaming about his bogus rabbit trail?


16 posted on 06/19/2014 5:33:27 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: Servant of the Cross

In other news...

Donald Trump filed for personal bankruptcy today claiming massive losses stemming from a hole in his pants’ pocket.


17 posted on 06/19/2014 5:34:02 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I been in IT for over 30 years. There are copies of those emails somewhere. May have to look at DR backups, rebuild mail stores/mailboxes, or even get some folks to flip bits. I remember going to a PROFS upgrade class a couple of years ago (old IBM email system) and this fella that I was in class with worked for the NSA and we discussed the retrievial of “deleted” emails from one Lt. Col. involved in the IRAN-CONTRA stuff.


18 posted on 06/19/2014 5:35:22 AM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: Servant of the Cross

You know, when Arthur Andersen got sued out of business over Enron, it was the destryoying of records that put them out of business.


19 posted on 06/19/2014 5:36:04 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: Servant of the Cross

It’s time to push for the end of the IRS, they are a rouge agency, run by a corrupt and violent enemy in the white house.e as the people of the usa cannot tun a blind eye to those who are our enemies>>the Irs is our enemy, the white house as well..either we get the constitution back as rule of law or the country will fall shortly.


20 posted on 06/19/2014 5:36:07 AM PDT by aces (Jesus Saves not Society)
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