Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away"

Townhall.com ^ | 6/19/2014 | Katie Pavlich

[Bailee]

Bull Shyt

Emails in Companies are not keep on local PC. They are backed up on Server farms. Other wise IT staff could not manage the Hiring and Firing of who has or does not have access to company emails.

But okay lets play devils advocate. To lose not one but six. Yeah Right.

We will see just how Stupid America has become. If the country swallows this “Smart Pill” they are trying to give us well then the core is rotten and cannot be fixed.

[PLMerite]

“Just last month the IRS commissioner testified that the emails had been archived.”

But have they been “sanitized?”

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

This destruction of E-Mails and the computer generating them is one more piece of evidence that the days of normal political means to solve problems is gone. We are passing under the control of the criminal element of our society, and they are consolidating their position with a vast influx of democrats from Mexico and Central America.

[MrB]

I don’t really think this admin thinks people are this dumb.

I think they’re simply stating that they will not be held accountable and there’s nothing anyone will/can do about it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I don’t even throw away hard drives of family computers that were used to surf Facebook and eBay.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

The head of the IRS AND Lois Lerner need to be jailed for contempt until the emails are delivered.

[Servant of the Cross]

Major crimes have been committed here.

Where do you even start:

Fast&Furious; Pigford; Solyndra; NSA eavesdropping; James Rosengate; Benghazi; Sebelius/Hatch Act; 0bamacare; you can keep your healthcare period; IRS targeting of citizens; VA deaths ...

No way to spin this as "just about sex ...."

[Kackikat]

E mails survive in the servers of the e mail carrier like yahoo, gov.com, gmail, and other internet mail providers, right?

Congress passed a law that all e mails, and all surfing on websites be preserved for 2-3 years...there is no way that info should not be out there somewhere.

[P-Marlowe]

Since when are emails stored on hard drives?

Everything is stored on a hard drive someplace. If it is not on the desktop computer, then it is at the server. But wherever it is, it is on a hard drive.

[john316]

That’s why I hire the smart guys...leave the math to the student as on of my old professors used to say.

[tacticalogic]

I don’t even throw away hard drives of family computers that were used to surf Facebook and eBay.

I take mine out to the shop, fire up the arc welder, ground the case, turn the amps all the way up, and drop a stick of 6011 through the platters.

[R_Kangel]

"Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away"

.... Emails are usually stored on the servers not on the hard drives. Of course ... we will probably find out today that the night Janitor accidentally threw out the IRS Server AND Mainframe with the evening trash from Lerner's waste basket.

..... Then when Darrell Issa brings up the fact that Servers are too big to be merely thrown into a trash can ..... The Lerner defense team will snap back and admit that .... The REAL Reason they lost the Lois Lerner emails is because a large flock of Spotted Owls set up their roost in the IRS Server room that stored Lerner's emails. They therefore had to shut down the servers to protect the Federally Protected flock. Unfortunately the Spotted owls pecked their way through the servers and destroyed the entire bank of hard drives thus rendering all of the data unrecoverable.

[Kozak]

This is a utter nonsense. When you work for the Feds you use Microsoft Exchange.. The emails aren’t on your local computer but on the MS exchange servers. MULTIPLE copies are archived there is no way those emails don’t exist..

Even if this fantasy were possible, SUBPEONA THE EMAILS OF EVERYONE ON HER ADDRESS BOOK. ever bodies “hard drive can’t fail”.

[Tucker39]

Interesting that the news was relayed through Hatch, the “Sellout Emeritus” of the United States Senate!/S

[mmichaels1970]

but her hard drive just happened to "crash" between January 2009-April 2011 and only on the emails to outside sources?

That's not entirely accurate. The IRS claims that it lost ALL of her emails during this time, but they claim they recovered emails to "inside sources" by going through email on other internal IRS users' computers. Theoretically, emails to the "outside sources" would only remain on the server of the outside source.

[mmichaels1970]

I believe their rules call for hard copies.

They do, but I read that they leave it to the discretion of the individual employee to determine whether the email is considered "official business" and therefore need to be printed.

[mmichaels1970]

This is a utter nonsense. When you work for the Feds you use Microsoft Exchange.. The emails aren’t on your local computer but on the MS exchange servers.

Not necessarily. You can cap the amount of storage space on an Exchange server so that the user is FORCED to remove their emails from the server and download them to an Outlook .pst file on their local computer.

The mailbox size quota the IRS claims it has was something completely ridiculous....something like 150mb.

[sharkhawk]

Someone needs to explain how it is that, at the IRS, people are storing emails on hard drives. No one does that anymore.

Exactly, at the bank I worked at, you couldn't even save anything on your hard drive. Everybody had a personal drive on the server. You want to save anything at all it went on the server. Was that way for at least 8 or 9 years, probably more. Why would you give the official record to be able to be deleted by the person who would have something to hide?

[ColdSteelTalon]

The law requires archives to be made. Someone has broken the law.

But I would not expect anyone to go to jail.

The cover up was complete and flawless. The perpetrators are going to get away with it, and Americans will go back to sleep.

[Wildbill22]

And so WHY is John Boehner NOT pressing for a special prosecutor?

What does Obama have to do to get suspected of treason against the Constitution of the United States of America? Assist the Russians in a nuclear first strike against his own country? And is that next??? I am actually wondering...