He’s lying. If those emails are not on a server then they were intentionally deleted.
All those billions we taxpayers unwillingly paid so the wonderful IRS would have top notch computer technology and now this forked tongue Dept Chief tells us they used tape backup and for only 6 months?
Paging Pinnochio...
I expect to see the emails shortly. Everyone knows that they are available, if you go looking. And the fact that the Obama administration wants them “lost” tells me that they will be explosive.
So his testimony is worthless - he's obviously obstructing justice for personal gain.
Can't remember who told him the e-Mails were missing. Can't remember when he was told - "it was in April!"
I am so sick of this BS.
If somebody organizes a mass demonstration at IRS headquarters, count me in.
The Obamedia will start running stories about people’s hard drives crashing and how it is very common.
Democrats are Law-Less because Republican “leaders” are BALL-LESS!!
Even if the was too difficult to search the back-up tapes (and what use are they if you don’t) and even if the IT experts claimed they could not recover the e-mails on Lerner’s hard drive, why were they not secured in order to preserve the evidence? Why were they not handed over to the House committee so that they could attempt the recovery? Would any prosecutor accept the excuses given by the IRS from someone under a criminal investigation? Would the IRS accept these excuses for someone under investigation for tax fraud?
Here is the link to the public document that codifies how the IRS email system is to be stored:
http://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-015-006.html#d0e279
Anybody want to try to tell me that people as high up as Lois Lerner was not having her emails archived weekly, if not daily?
Read Paragraph 7 very carefully, especially Sections C and D:
C. Work-related non-record messages must be deleted when no longer needed. These include information/reference email and word processing files received “for your information” or as a carbon (CC) or blind copy (BC), but which you were not expected to and did not take action on. Further examples may include copies of directives and interim guidance, notices, images, CAD drawings, and copies of reports.
D. E-mail messages identified as federal records must be handled in accordance with their NARA-approved disposition schedule and kept in an approved recordkeeping system as discussed above. To identify the appropriate disposition, consult the Records Control Schedules Documents 12829 and 12990 or your ARM. A full listing of ARMs is located on the RIM website. IRS employees are instructed to retain all electronic copies and paper records until disposition instructions have been approved and distributed by the IRS RIM Program Office. Unlawfully destroying federal records is a violation of the Federal Records Act and carries stiff penalties.
In other words, direct correspondence MUST have been backed up. Not mighta, woulda, shoulda - it was mandatory.