Posted on 06/26/2014 2:46:40 AM PDT by SkyPilot
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS share a problem: officials say they cannot provide the emails a congressional committee has requested because an employee’s hard drive crashed.
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy confirmed to the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that her staff is unable to provide lawmakers all of the documents they have requested on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, because of a 2010 computer crash.
“We’re having trouble getting the data off of it and we’re trying other sources to actually supplement that,” McCarthy said. “We’re challenged in figuring out where those small failures might have occurred and what caused them occur, but we’ve produced a lot of information.”
The revelation came less than two weeks after IRS officials told Congress that Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the controversy over the targeting of conservative tax-exempt groups, also suffered from a hard drive crash that makes it difficult to comply with records requests.
The committee suspects that Phillip North, who worked for the EPA in Alaska, decided with his colleagues to veto the proposed Pebble Mine near Bristol Bay in 2009, before the agency even began researching its potential impacts on the environment.
Committee staffers have been trying for about a year to interview North, but he has been in New Zealand and refuses to cooperate, they said.
“We have tried to serve a subpoena on your former employee and we have asked for the failed hard drive from this Alaskan individual who now is in New Zealand, and seems to never be returning,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, said Wednesday.
Emails provided by the committee show that EPA told congressional investigators about the hard drive crash months ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I’ve had one bad hard drive in my life. Not a crash, but just one that was bad out of the gate. And even that one only had problems with certain sectors.
iowahawkblog: Hey, here's an EPA employee who never had a hard drive crash: the guy who surfed porn at work 6 hrs/day for 13 years http://t.co/cxF0N1MxM2
iDoLikeSpam: @iowahawkblog Conclusion: downloading porn increases hard drive life.
Do we have an extradition treaty with New Zealand?
For years, we all have been told about the various methods of backing up our computers & how important it is.
The Feds think they can keep telling us they didn’t have backups????
The “MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION EVER?” Another LIE.
Yep - jail em till they squeal. Inherent contempt and there’s no pardon available.
I’ve had 3 go over the last 10 years unfortunately. 2 were internals and one an external.
Of course more agencies are going to use ‘the crash’ as an excuse.
No one has been executed.
as I understand it....many porn sites do house all manner of malicious files intended to crash drives.
There is a jail in the Capitol building that has not been used since the bankruptcy of 1933 when power was invested in “the President” as executor of that bankruptcy.
ll us the truth or....
We have a winner
Obama’s Federal agency’s sure are suffering a lot of mysterious hard drive crashes lately....
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