Well, imagine that...
Would it be easier for Congress to subpoena everyone in the government who still has a hard disk?
Sounds to me like it may a contagious disease, they should both be quarantined in a federal slammer until the truth comes out.
Then put them in the general prison population.
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Anyone else wondering.... felony obstruction of justice INDICTMENTS?
hey,things could of been worse!can u imagine if they were still using “Floppy Disk’s” to store their crucial information?
Dammit. Do I have to think of EVERYthing?
oh wow!
So years of work was just completely lost and they simply gave them a new email address?
They didn’t reload all the emails sitting on the server so she could keep on working tasks without missing a beat?
Well Gosh dang...
Working for the DoD, with a contracted computer system, we had ‘non contract’ external hard drives go belly up more frequently than they should. We got so we only plugged them in for backups, then unplugged.
The ones left plugged in all the time seemed most at risk.
The tree of liberty needs watering, real bad.
Indictment, prosecution, imprisonment....otherwise it’s all just a joke.
Man, those emails are elusive little devils.
DEFUND AND DISBAND THE IRS
Odds are now at 1 in 38900000000 that this could happen.
There’s going to be a whole lot of emails “go missing” and computers crashing all over the District of Corruption between now and January 2017. It’s that “transparency” thing that dumb Josh Earnest, the Jay Jay Carney wannabe, was talking about.
The odds are more like 234 billion to 1 that all 8 hard drives failed and not one had any recoverable data at all, but hey , as Lerner correctly observed, “stuff happens” so the explanation is “perfect”
This does not however, explain why the data was not recovered.
Lerner and the other 7 or 8 people involved were in VERY high level positions, the analog of a corporate President or VP in the private sector and mission critical data that a company has a legal duty to preserve is stored on those drives.
The hard drive is replaced and the data from the archived back ups is retrieved and the data is loaded on the new hard drive and restored onto the computer within a day or so of the failure .
In the case of the IRS the emails were doubly backed up.
First the email on the e mail server was backed up by the email back up system and archived.
Second, the emails were downloaded onto the computer and were archived by the incremental back up system that preserved the downloaded email data resident on the hard drive.
As soon as the hard drives went down, the drives would have been replaced and all of the data from the multiple back up systems by IRS IT people within a matter of days, if not hours to restore everything that had been on the hard drives at the time of failure.
If anything from email was missing, it would be reconstructed by the IT team from the totally separate e-mail traffic logs showing who and where incoming and outgoing e mails were directed.
To think that multiple Officer level employees of a multi billion dollar organization such as the IRS would have hard drive crashes and lose years of data without having it restored is simply insane - how could they have kept doing their jobs for the last several years without their emails or the data on their hard drives.
There is absolutely no evidence that there was any corresponding disruption of job duties of any of the officials in question due to such a massive and improbable data loss.
Gooooollllly. Surprise, surprise, surprise!