IRS regulations require emails that are “federal records” to be stored in separate, permanent system

Hotair ^ | 06/17/2014 | AllahPundit

[TurboZamboni]

The HARP program erased my servers and a dingo ate my email.

[FreeInWV]

Odds are, they are using EMC storage arrays which get backed up to big StorageTek tape libraries nightly. Then they are mandated to store extra copies of the tapes offsite. Nothing was lost. Its still there. Probably on an LTO5 tape in Kearneysville, WV or at Iron Mountain in PA.

Someone should demand an ACA audit of their disaster recovery procedures. And while we’re at it, copies of their tape logs. And chain of custody records for the tapes. It wouldn’t take long to pull up the tape catalog, retrieve the tapes and restore them for everyone to see. A day maybe.

[savedbygrace]

That procedures described do not appear to meet the requirements prescribed by federal law. It isn’t even a close call.

[Ray76]

Subpoena all copies printed or stored on an electronic recordkeeping system.

Subpoena all emails from the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices to Lerner, her assistants, staff, associates, underlings, etc.

[Sacajaweau]

You got it!!

[FreeInWV]

Or we could just ask the NSA. Lol! They save years worth of emails!

[webheart]

The emails are not lost. They are being withheld. Every time we acknowledge the premise that they are lost, we allow the perpetrators to define a false narrative which allows them to continue withholding the emails.

[Mygirlsmom]

Storage is relatively cheap these days - probably less than paper and print costs. A terabyte drive would hold a lot of email - assign everyone in an office a partition and when it's full, move on to another. Store in secured area. Done.

Not particularly elegant, but it would work.

That being said, I can't believe that the IRS does not have a more robust policy on retention of records.

[Mygirlsmom]

I am getting the feeling that the targeting was discussed “off record” and not via official email channels.

[Billthedrill]

I am getting the feeling that the targeting was discussed “off record” and not via official email channels.

Entirely possible, although they were pretty brazen in their written communications to the organizations involved. Nevertheless, the absence of information on that sort of thing is nearly as damning as open targeting. If they were denying organizations tax status with no written records, that's bad in itself.

[bicyclerepair]

The guy that set the password moved to Brazil!