Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away"
Townhall.com ^ | 6/19/2014 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 06/19/2014 5:26:29 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross

According to a report published late last night in POLITICO, the hard drive belonging to Lois Lerner where the IRS claims her emails to outside agencies and groups like the White House, Department of Justice, FEC, Democrat members of Congress, etc. were stored has been...destroyed.

Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.

“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.

So now the IRS wants us to believe Lerner's emails were only stored on her personal hard drive? And not on a backup server somewhere? Come on. Further, why is it that Lerner has emails to employees in the IRS, but her hard drive just happened to "crash" between January 2009-April 2011 and only on the emails to outside sources?

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa didn't buy the excuse when the "lost" emails were announced late last week. Now he's implying the emails were deliberately made to disappear, which is a violation of federal law.

"If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, this is proof their whole line about 'losing' e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception," Issa said in a statement to Fox News. "Official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don't just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention."

Things just got a lot more criminal.

The latest news suggests such professionals may never get the chance to try again — and the IRS has even said its criminal investigators who specialize in rebuilding hard drives to recover hidden information from criminals were unable to restore the data back in 2011.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhoirs; corrupt; corruptdems; coverup; dncrico; harddrive; irsrico; lerner; lernerrico; liars; obamarico
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120121-126 next last
To: All

Bull Shyt

Emails in Companies are not keep on local PC. They are backed up on Server farms. Other wise IT staff could not manage the Hiring and Firing of who has or does not have access to company emails.

But okay lets play devils advocate. To lose not one but six. Yeah Right.

We will see just how Stupid America has become. If the country swallows this “Smart Pill” they are trying to give us well then the core is rotten and cannot be fixed.


101 posted on 06/19/2014 6:40:48 AM PDT by Bailee
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

“Just last month the IRS commissioner testified that the emails had been archived.”

But have they been “sanitized?”


102 posted on 06/19/2014 6:41:11 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross

This destruction of E-Mails and the computer generating them is one more piece of evidence that the days of normal political means to solve problems is gone. We are passing under the control of the criminal element of our society, and they are consolidating their position with a vast influx of democrats from Mexico and Central America.


103 posted on 06/19/2014 6:42:11 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bailee

I don’t really think this admin thinks people are this dumb.

I think they’re simply stating that they will not be held accountable and there’s nothing anyone will/can do about it.


104 posted on 06/19/2014 6:42:30 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 101 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross

I don’t even throw away hard drives of family computers that were used to surf Facebook and eBay.


105 posted on 06/19/2014 6:44:43 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross

The head of the IRS AND Lois Lerner need to be jailed for contempt until the emails are delivered.


106 posted on 06/19/2014 6:45:16 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: FlingWingFlyer
Major crimes have been committed here.

Where do you even start:

Fast&Furious; Pigford; Solyndra; NSA eavesdropping; James Rosengate; Benghazi; Sebelius/Hatch Act; 0bamacare; you can keep your healthcare period; IRS targeting of citizens; VA deaths ...

No way to spin this as "just about sex ...."

107 posted on 06/19/2014 6:47:02 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 98 | View Replies]

To: The Louiswu

E mails survive in the servers of the e mail carrier like yahoo, gov.com, gmail, and other internet mail providers, right?

Congress passed a law that all e mails, and all surfing on websites be preserved for 2-3 years...there is no way that info should not be out there somewhere.


108 posted on 06/19/2014 6:49:57 AM PDT by Kackikat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: stuck_in_new_orleans
Since when are emails stored on hard drives?

Everything is stored on a hard drive someplace. If it is not on the desktop computer, then it is at the server. But wherever it is, it is on a hard drive.

109 posted on 06/19/2014 6:52:47 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 85 | View Replies]

To: tacticalogic

That’s why I hire the smart guys...leave the math to the student as on of my old professors used to say.


110 posted on 06/19/2014 7:13:53 AM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 97 | View Replies]

To: Buckeye McFrog
I don’t even throw away hard drives of family computers that were used to surf Facebook and eBay.

I take mine out to the shop, fire up the arc welder, ground the case, turn the amps all the way up, and drop a stick of 6011 through the platters.

111 posted on 06/19/2014 7:18:15 AM PDT by tacticalogic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 105 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross
"Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away"

.... Emails are usually stored on the servers not on the hard drives. Of course ... we will probably find out today that the night Janitor accidentally threw out the IRS Server AND Mainframe with the evening trash from Lerner's waste basket.

..... Then when Darrell Issa brings up the fact that Servers are too big to be merely thrown into a trash can ..... The Lerner defense team will snap back and admit that .... The REAL Reason they lost the Lois Lerner emails is because a large flock of Spotted Owls set up their roost in the IRS Server room that stored Lerner's emails. They therefore had to shut down the servers to protect the Federally Protected flock. Unfortunately the Spotted owls pecked their way through the servers and destroyed the entire bank of hard drives thus rendering all of the data unrecoverable.

112 posted on 06/19/2014 7:19:04 AM PDT by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau

This is a utter nonsense. When you work for the Feds you use Microsoft Exchange.. The emails aren’t on your local computer but on the MS exchange servers. MULTIPLE copies are archived there is no way those emails don’t exist..

Even if this fantasy were possible, SUBPEONA THE EMAILS OF EVERYONE ON HER ADDRESS BOOK. ever bodies “hard drive can’t fail”.


113 posted on 06/19/2014 7:23:10 AM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross

Interesting that the news was relayed through Hatch, the “Sellout Emeritus” of the United States Senate!/S


114 posted on 06/19/2014 7:27:56 AM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and in politic)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
but her hard drive just happened to "crash" between January 2009-April 2011 and only on the emails to outside sources?

That's not entirely accurate. The IRS claims that it lost ALL of her emails during this time, but they claim they recovered emails to "inside sources" by going through email on other internal IRS users' computers. Theoretically, emails to the "outside sources" would only remain on the server of the outside source.
115 posted on 06/19/2014 7:28:21 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sacajaweau
I believe their rules call for hard copies.

They do, but I read that they leave it to the discretion of the individual employee to determine whether the email is considered "official business" and therefore need to be printed.
116 posted on 06/19/2014 7:29:27 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Kozak
This is a utter nonsense. When you work for the Feds you use Microsoft Exchange.. The emails aren’t on your local computer but on the MS exchange servers.

Not necessarily. You can cap the amount of storage space on an Exchange server so that the user is FORCED to remove their emails from the server and download them to an Outlook .pst file on their local computer.

The mailbox size quota the IRS claims it has was something completely ridiculous....something like 150mb.
117 posted on 06/19/2014 7:31:40 AM PDT by mmichaels1970
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 113 | View Replies]

To: Opinionated Blowhard
Someone needs to explain how it is that, at the IRS, people are storing emails on hard drives. No one does that anymore.

Exactly, at the bank I worked at, you couldn't even save anything on your hard drive. Everybody had a personal drive on the server. You want to save anything at all it went on the server. Was that way for at least 8 or 9 years, probably more. Why would you give the official record to be able to be deleted by the person who would have something to hide?

118 posted on 06/19/2014 8:15:03 AM PDT by sharkhawk (Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 81 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross
The law requires archives to be made. Someone has broken the law.

But I would not expect anyone to go to jail.

The cover up was complete and flawless. The perpetrators are going to get away with it, and Americans will go back to sleep.

119 posted on 06/19/2014 8:37:31 AM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Servant of the Cross

And so WHY is John Boehner NOT pressing for a special prosecutor?

What does Obama have to do to get suspected of treason against the Constitution of the United States of America? Assist the Russians in a nuclear first strike against his own country? And is that next??? I am actually wondering...


120 posted on 06/19/2014 9:23:36 AM PDT by Wildbill22 (They have us surrounded again, the poor bastards- Gen Creighton Williams Abrams)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 61-8081-100101-120121-126 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson