Posted on 06/27/2014 12:12:03 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The IRS under the Obama Administration has spent over $4 billion on contracts labeled under information technology and software despite IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testifying this week that budgetary restraints prevented the agency from spending $10 million to save and store emails.
Koskinen said “declining budget resources” at the IRS caused the agency decided to reject spending the $10 million needed to ensure emails were properly secured.
A review of IRS spending by the Free Beacon shows the agency has spent a massive amount on what it labeled as IT/software and data processing contracts in the past five fiscal years. The official government’s spending website shows the IRS spent $4.4 billion during this time period.
A total of 12,543 contracts were awarded under this product code.
Records show the IRS under President George Bush spent a total of $5.3 billion in eight years for the same contractive services. If the IRS spending trends continue as they have thus far, the IRS under Obama is on track to far exceed what was spent during the Bush presidency.
Koskinen also said “continuing financial constraints have meant that this fiscal year, the IRS is spending minimal amounts supporting its $1 billion IT infrastructure.” Records show the agency has already spent $642 million on IT contracts this fiscal year.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Targeting the TEA party is EXPENSIVE. They had nothing left over.
I have 10-year old emails at my Yahoo account, not costing me a dime.
Hubby wants the million to find the emails. He says he could do it. I am sure he is not alone.
We don't need no stick'n backups!
The IRS commissioner said Lois Lerner’s emails could not be retrieved due to a hard drive crash. However, records show his agency has spent tens of millions of dollars in contracts with at least two companies for information retrieval systems and a forensics program touted as securing and maintaining the integrity of data.
* The IRS contracted with Unisys Corporation for $11.8 million
* The above which included $4 million for “critical operation and maintenance of the files informational retrieval system”
* $4.9 million for what the contract describes as “critical-exercise files information retrieval system (Exfirs) Operations and Maintenance.”
* The agency also awarded a total contract worth $5.9 million to Immixtechnology Inc. in 2010 for what was described as an “encase enterprise forensics suite.”
I am sure the IRS will have the same sympathy if I lose a record. /S
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The lost email lie (the dog ate my homework) is so obvious that no time or energy should be wasted address that issue. Time and energy would be far better used to find the emails and then prosecute those who are responsible for the initial wrongdoing and especially those who are responsible for the cover up
http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/the_sleeper_case_that_could_bust_open_the_irs_scandals.html
h/t Hotlanta Mike
"What makes the Z-Street case unique and potentially extremely damaging is that its lawsuit was filed in August 2010. That filing placed the IRS under legal obligation to preserve records."
The problem with that is that we the people have to prove the IRS guilty of wrongdoing,
whilst we the people, when faced with an IRS accusation, have to also prove our innocence.
They then reduced the contract amount by $0.31 (thirty one pennies) to account for the De obligation of ongoing data amd record archiving responsibilities.
In other words, they allowed the company to destroy the IRS records by releasing from their contractual obligations for post contract data archiving which had been costed into the contract at the front end of the contract
PERJURY!!!!
The IRS has 90,000 employees and spent $10 billion in the last 10 years. That is about $11,000 per employee per year. With that kind of cash they could buy each one a workstation and their own individual server unit!
Their IT budget in recent years is roughly $1.8 BILLION per YEAR. That’s $20,000 per year, per employee. They should be able to buy them all an iPad, a new computer, a cell phone, and a Livescribe pen every year and have thousands left to pay for all of their “static” costs.
Heck, for that money the USAF could buy a couple of B-2 bombers.
Obama spent Billions on a website that doesn’t work either...
Where are they finding these IT people???? Homeless Shelters.... Heck even that would be better....
Are they recruiting IT people out of coma wards????
Has the committee asked the archiving company if they indeed destroyed the IRS records. I’m betting that they didn’t despite the ending of the contract. When it comes to electronic records, somebody, somewhere has a copy. Nothing is ever truly ‘destroyed’ for all time.
More lies from people that deserve to rot in hell.
They have sent a subpoena to the IRS and it's the IRS responsibility to contact the back up company to locate and turn over the subpoenaed records.
FWIW, the back up company is a huge supporter and financial contributor to Obama.
Surprise, surprise.
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