Posted on 06/25/2014 6:28:27 AM PDT by don-o
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) prematurely “retired” computer data storage devices worth millions of dollars and filed “disposal” documents for computer hardware that still existed, according to an internal inspector general report reviewed by The Daily Caller.
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The IRS, which spent $44.1 million in information technology (IT) hardware maintenance in fiscal year 2011 and $47.8 million in fiscal year 2012, closed out its six-year business relationship with the email archiving-and-recovery company Sonasoft in September 2011. Meanwhile, sophisticated data storage devices were being thrown away in the agency’s national IT offices in Maryland, even though the IRS was still paying for maintenance on the devices.
The IRS prematurely “retired” data-storage devices and filled out “disposal” documents for hardware that still existed and was supposed to still be in use, according to a Sept. 24, 2013 Treasury Inspector General (TIGTA) report entitled “Increased Oversight of Information Technology Hardware Maintenance Contracts Is Necessary To Ensure Against Paying for Unnecessary Services.”
“In another [maintenance] contract, 22 of 54 storage devices had been retired prior to the end of the service contract or were migrated to a separate storage contract as part of the IRS’s efforts to consolidate data storage,” according to TIGTA.
“When the contract was originally awarded in December 2009, it covered 54 storage devices with an average annual hardware maintenance cost of about $2.5 million,” according to the TIGTA report. ”The current list, dated April 1, 2013, showed 32 storage devices requiring maintenance. The decrease in the number of storage devices is due to the retirement of those hardware assets or the migration to a separate storage contract as part of IRS’s efforts to consolidate and share storage across the IRS.”
The IRS also filled out disposal documentation for IT devices that still existed.
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I bet they did...Ran over them with a semi did they?
Lies, lies, and more lies.
Like with Benghazi, Fast and Furious, etc., etc.
The whole lot of them need to be in jail.
The only thing more astonishing than these unbelievably ludicrous excuses and lies is the fact that more people are not demanding impeachment and jail!
Good thing the IRS isn’t involved in our health care. Oh, wait...
Steam roller. Semis don’t provide enough psi pressure.
Well then it’s time to “Prematurely Retire” the irs.
$1,800,000,000.00 and they still can't function?
Yeah riiiiiight.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely…the old adage proven correct once again. The IRS and the income tax were always terrible ideas for a free people.
Abolish both and institute a flat tax for everyone living in this country.
Everyone ought to pay the same percentage….no deductions for anything. If you don’t like it, find another country.
Like that'll happen.
Gee, when you add this all up, it sure does sound like the IRS deliberately destroyed drives and back ups to get rid of incriminating emails. But the IRS commissioner assures us that it was all just a big mistake — or series of multiple big mistakes — so I guess its OK.
Yeah, completely defund it and refuse to do otherwise until some sort of tax system is in place that disallows any contact between the federal government and the individual.
Present tax bills to states based on population.
Let them worry about how to pay it.
Issa said last night he has filed 4 criminal charges against Lerner with DOJ. Holder has not acted. Holder is already been in contempt of Congress.
It’s time to impeach holder.
Impeach him all you want, but he’s got the invincible teflon tan to protect him from being removed.
The more that trickles out about this story, the clearer it becomes that this was a long-term, thought-out strategy to remove all traces of these emails throughout IRS systems.
Ha! It’s too late for ‘premature’.
That monstrosity of government fraud and waste has been around more than long enough by now!!
Arrest the soldiers and they will give up the capos, arrest the capos and they will give up the don.
It’s beyond that. The failure to remove Clinton after impeaching him taught the Dems a lesson - as long as they stick together in the Senate, there is little the GOP can do to address this malfeasance. The only really viable option is to use the House power of the purse to defund.
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