Posted on 05/28/2013 10:14:46 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
IRS Directed to Lock Down All Agency Data
By Eliana Johnson May 28, 2013 12:50 PM
The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of locking down all computer data across the agency, a sign that investigations into the scandal-plagued agency may be taking a broader sweep than initially anticipated.
Agency employees last Thursday received an e-mail alerting them, ”This is a late breaking top priority and things could change in the future,” according to an IRS employee who asked not to be named.
Employees were directed not to “wipe, re-image or otherwise destroy any hard drives” on any machine currently in use or in stock. During this time, the IRS will not discard any laptop and desktop computers that are replaced, and it is ”working on securing a location” where they will be kept, according to the e-mail.
National Review Online previously reported that data on computer hard drives in the Tax Exempt and Government Entity division in Cincinnati was being preserved and uploaded to a restriccted server where investigators can access it.
Four government probes are currently investigating the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups; they are being led by the House Oversight Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, and the IRS itself.
How many conservative business owners or property owners have been denied permits or fined by the EPA, due to targeting? What was discussed in Lisa Jackson's 'Richard Windsor' E-mails? Shine some light on these cockroaches!
And at taxpayer expense....
Special prosecutors and criminal investigations, where all parties are under oath are like war. You know how they start but never how they end. Discovery process and witness interrogation has a way of opening wormholes and loopholes and leading in unexpected directions and that scares the hxll out of those on top because bad stuff is covered up at the top.
I’d like to see, and wish we had seen more of this, in government, because good ole boy corruption between both Parties needs purged before we can get to honest government.
They should have treated them like they do businesses. Show up with warrants, close the building to all employees and keep it closed for days while they physically remove all the computers and evidence, and then slowly reopen the office and return the computers as they make copies and search them for evidence.
If this is like the EPA scandal and unofficial email accounts were used, "what difference does it make anyhow at this time?"
And the truly incriminating info will disappear
That’s the real purpose of this “directive”.
You know, this is just so much bu11sh*t... Who is going to enforce and oversee this, the IRS? Yeah.... rrrrriiiight... And I would expect that all the "good" evidence is already gone, if they have any clue at all...
If you’re right - more people will be going to jail...
This is nothing but theatre for the masses. There has been plenty of time for the IRS to wipe away high-level communications and data that would implicate the bigwigs. A few peons will be hung out to dry.
Yep. If it weren't for those leaks they'd have gotten away with the whole thing by now, and they still might. They're playing a delaying game now, hoping that with enough media help they'll be able to run the clock out. (Bad time to wake up to find stories about AP and Fox phone records in the papers, isn't it? But they'll get over it.)
Until Congress shows it's serious enough to send somebody to jail - Scooter Libby, anyone? - this whole thing is one big Kabuki dance. I'd love to be wrong about that but it's the way to bet.
I was thinking:
Scrub, scrub, scrub your hard drive,
wipe away the data
erase, erase, erase, erase
Obama’s our dear leader
sung to row row row your boat
My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government.
BARACK OBAMA
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment
However, the erasing of data can be just as incriminating—look at what happened during Watergate with that 18-minute “gap” of missing audio....
DOn’t forget the Identity Theft scandal. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3024640/posts
Our immigration system, into our computers, is a joke and everyone knows it.
Hmm ~ if they’re honest they won’t leak anything to anybody.
Regardless of why they’re doing it, the fact that they are doing it tells the tale .... what has been going on is big, bad, and ugly.
ah, let’s leak. Makes it look like we know nothing.
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