Posted on 06/19/2014 8:15:20 AM PDT by chessplayer
The IRS announced last night — after a subpoena from House Oversight chair Darrell Issa — that Lois Lerner’s hard drive had been either “thrown away” or recycled, which means at least for the moment that none of her interagency e-mails can be recovered:
“IT experts have weighed in and said yes — we can get those” emails, said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) earlier Wednesday.
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. But this is only likely to further enrage Republicans, who are fuming over the matter and suspect Washington officials drove the selective scrutiny.
Without backups or the drives, those communications have been lost. Unless Lerner testifies, which she has so far refused to do, or unless the House subpoenas all executive-branch e-mails, they’re likely lost forever.
Keep calling your Reps. The email data, by law, is required to be backed up on redundant servers, and has been, for years. Her computer is not even an issue in this farce.
First it was crashed.
Then reused, now it is “thrown away”.
What next, sold to China?
Found in the bottom of a White House closet with Rose Law Firm records that have curiously been scrubbed?
Much as the Constitution under Obama..
Shredded .. Tossed..
And like leftist rhetoric, recycled.
By the most corrupt incompetent agenda driven adminstration uhhh regime ever.
Turn the drives over to the FBI. Send a FBI IT tech over to discover their data backup.
I used to work for the federal government: they are not completely gone.
This regime was voted in - twice.
And still has a 40% approval rating.
It does not matter if the hard drives were thrown away. The emails will be found on the servers. They don’t throw those away.
If heads start rolling, any IT staff who didn’t backup according to law gets fired, there’s a chance someone down the chain won’t think it’s worth it.
Dibs on the burning torches and pitchfork concession.
“First it was crashed.
Then reused, now it is “thrown away”.
What next, sold to China?
Found in the bottom of a White House closet with Rose Law Firm records that have curiously been scrubbed?”
This is the Obama administration rubbing our noses in it. They can lie, and the lie can be stupid, it can be changed, it can be anything... and it will be accepted by the msm and the public.
What the Obama admin is really saying is: “Take that conservatives, stick it where the sun don’t shine!”
A war-time House would stop all IRS paychecks until the emails showed up.
It’s like the old style Soviet Union where the leadership lied, obviously lied, changed the lie so often one could tell time by it, and nobody batted an eye.
Because if you said something about it, you had the KGB up in your business over it.
IRS agent: Mr. Leaning Right, you claimed over two billion dollars in work-related deductions last year. Where is the evidence to back that up?
Me: It was on my hard drive, but the drive crashed. I of course didn't back anything up.
IRS agent: You had better get a computer expert to recover that data, and you had better do it fast.
Me: But I threw the hard drive away.
IRS agent: No problem then. Your tax return is accepted. Have a nice day.
IRS to America: “Uh, yeah. The files were lost, no they were thrown away. Also - screw you.”
Congress is in the bag for this admin, most of us already know this by Boehner inactions.
If the average American citizen tried that crap with the IRS, they would be crushed painfully. That’s why you see people scrambling to find 6 year old receipts in a shoebox. “Sorry. Lost that stuff. You can’t do anything” simply will not fly with the IRS. Why should they get a pass when the situation is reversed?
Okay….doesn’t the federal government have a cyber security company hired to prevent this scenario from happening? Issa needs to call them in and see why they didn’t stop this taxpayer-funded security breech from occurring. It’s their job.
I went over to the DUmp (gag) to see what they are saying about the destruction of evidence. Aside from some small posts a few days ago (defending the loss of data as usual and customary)...
Crickets.
They need to change the site name to hypocrite underground.
> 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
How often does a crash erase/overwrite an entire hard drive? I can understand a few sectors but the whole thing? Seems that would take intentional effort and time.
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