Posted on 07/17/2014 8:10:38 AM PDT by cotton1706
The House Armed Services Committee has come up with a creative approach to look for emails from embattled former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner that were apparently lost in a computer crash: they're asking the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Defense Department.
The panel approved a resolution Wednesday authored by Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, that directs the Secretary of Defense to send the House of Representatives "copies of any electronic communication in the possession of the Secretary, the Director of the National Security Agency, or any office that reports to the Secretary or the Director that was transmitted to or from any electronic mail account(s) used by former Internal Revenue Service Exempt Organizations Division Director Lois Lerner at any time between January 1, 2009, and April 30, 2011."
The IRS said last month that it could not locate many emails sent and received by Lerner - the official at the heart of the controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative groups - because her computer crashed in 2011. They were ultimately able to generate 24,000 emails from 2009 to 2011 by finding message where she had copied other employees.
The resolution hopes that perhaps the NSA - which apparently collected as many as 56,000 emails and other communications from Americans who had no connection to terrorism prior to 2013 - might have picked up some of the lost communications.
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Just ask Ed Snowden, he’s probably got ‘em all on a memory stick
Would be funny if they all showed up on wiki leaks.
NSA: OOPS! Sorry, we had a hard drive crash, too!.............................
Now will the NSA stick to its claim that it only archived the metadata about the emails or will they produce the actual emails?
Ask Putin. He probably has them on his iPhone.....................
I believe Eric “The Holder” will taking charge of this soon.
They will claim ‘National Security’ and dismiss the request.......................
When pigs fly, hell freezes over and Obama becomes a US citizen..................
Somebody's going to have to tunnel in.
My guess is that if you found the right guy at the NSA....he’d go in and in less than twelve minutes...pull them down completely. But I’m guessing the NSA will fight this tooth and nail.....requiring a federal judge to be the overseer, and draw this out for six months. They’ve got access to just about everything....so if they do their job....this is over in a matter of hours.
With access to the proper systems, I could do it in less than 5.
The sweet irony would be if Obama’s NSA provided the very evidence to bring him down.
Creative approach?
There were a couple hundred Freepers who suggested the NSA a month ago.
Many Freepers have suggested this approach.
Steve Stockman is listening.
THAT’s creative???? In who’s universe? Almost every person that knows what USB and NSA means has been SCREAMING for the exact same thing.
I agree. There is no way they’re gone. I don’t think you even need the NSA to retrieve them.
Since 0 is behind this, and 0 rules all federal agencies, we will never hear the truth from them. They have been ordered to protect the Emperor.
They think themselves brilliant for figuring out what we the peasants know instantly.
The metadata would be enough in a lot of instances. Once it is established that Lerner was exchanging emails with political entities, then the email of the correspondent can be summoned.
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