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<p>Lerner refuses to testify, refuses to produce emails - compel her to testify regarding the recipients, senders, subjects and contents of the "lost" email conversations or jail her for contempt of congress.</p> <p>How far up the ladder does this criminal conspiracy go?</p>

Yesterday on FOX News Sunday Chris Wallace invited Washington superlawyer Cleta Mitchell and reptilian Democratic hack Julian Epstein to discuss the IRS scandals in the context of the “lost” IRS emails. More than one scandal inheres in the events, including Obama’s declaration of innocence regarding those involved; I therefore refer to the IRS scandals. The video of the FOX News Sunday segment is below and is worth a look if you haven’t seen it. At 2:30 in the segment Wallace displays a Missing Emails Timeline depicting a point made by Kim Strassel in her Wall Street Journal column of this...

Then a giant dog stuck its head through the window and ate all the servers.You expect this kind of thing from Enron. You don’t expect it from the IRS. But as it turns out, there isn’t much difference. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials’ computers allegedly crashed.Lois Lerner’s computer allegedly crashed in June 2011, just ten days after House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was engaging in...

This is the IRS set of rules for itself. How many of them did it break? Who is going to jail? 1.15  Records and Information Management 1.15.1  The Records and Information Management Program1.15.2  Types of Records and Their Life Cycles1.15.3  Disposing of Records1.15.4  Retiring and Requesting Records1.15.5  Relocating/Removing Records1.15.6  Managing Electronic Records1.15.7  Files Management1.15.24  Records Control Schedule for Tax Exempt and Government Entities 1.15.25  Records Control Schedule for Statistics Division1.15.27  Records Control Schedule for Compliance Research1.15.32  Records Control Schedule for Electronic Tax Administration1.15.35  Records Control Schedule for Tax Administration Systems (Electronic) 1.15.36  Records Control Schedule for Permanent Records1.15.37  Records Control...

BLUE BELL, Pa., July 26, 2012 – Unisys (NYSE: UIS) announced today that it has been awarded the Enterprise Storage Acquisition task order from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide private cloud-based storage for the agency’s information records. This task order, awarded against GSA’s Alliant Government-wide Acquisition Contract, has a one-year base period and nine one-year options and is potentially worth up to $139 million over 10 years, if all options are exercised. It includes pricing for each year based on the IRS’s estimate of its storage requirements. Under the task order, Unisys will initially acquire storage assets now...

Is that a smoking gun  I smell?  It turns out the IRS contracted with a company that provides email backup services starting in 2005.  This first came to light in the Twitter feed of moregenr, who noticed that the IRS appears on the client list of email  archiving service provider Sonasoft. The IRS is listed as a customer of Sonasoft software - "Email Archiving Done Right" http://t.co/DoRYpk6n2R— Morgen (@morgenr) June 20, 2014 This was was picked up by Peter Suderman of Reason, who writes: The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005,according to FedSpending.org,...

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials’ computers allegedly crashed. The IRS signed a contract with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, California, each year from 2005 to 2010. The company, which partners with Microsoft and counts The New York Times among its clients, claims in its company slogans that it provides “Email Archiving Done Right” and “Point-Click Recovery.” Sonasoft in 2009 tweeted, “If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldn’t you choose...

Customers Our list of customers spans many industries.The world’s leading companies rely on Sonasoft products to secure their operational data. Sonasoft’s award winning disaster recovery software for Microsoft Servers: SonaVault, SonaExchange, and SonaSQL is known for ease of use and reliability for email archiving, backup, recovery, replication and migration needs. ASP / MSP EvocativeMarsysProximitumPlanet MagpieStorage MonkeyTellurian NetworksConsultingAlaCourt.comCaliper CorporationCGIiProspectLeadMasterLegacy Marketing GroupSpencerStuartEducational InstitutionsArvin Unified School DistrictAnderson Unified School DistrictBoston BalletBrea Olinda Unified School DistrictDinuba Unified School DistrictDesert Sands Charter High SchoolDoheney Eye InstituteHenderson State UniversityLaPorte Independent School DistrictLemoore Union High School DistrictLoma Linda AcademyNapa County Office of EducationRevere Public Schools / Garfield...

The timing is not merely suspicious, it is damning. [T]he alleged disappearance of Ms. Lerner's hard drive—and the fact that the missing conversations are those the former IRS director had with people outside the IRS—has suddenly resurrected, with force, the explosive possibility that she was chatting with Democrats who mattered. There's plenty of reason to believe she was. Just last week Congress discovered (via a subpoena to the Justice Department) emails showing that Ms. Lerner had conversations with Justice prosecutors about investigating conservative nonprofits. Who else in the Obama administration was Ms. Lerner talking to? I'm omitting all of the...

If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldn't you choose them to protect your severs? http://www.sonasoft.com — Sonasoft.com (@Sonasoft) October 09, 2009

Sonasoft Software Licenses and Software Maintenance Support Solicitation Number: Y8Y184TSA62-000 Agency: Department of the TreasuryOffice: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)Location: National Office Procurement (OS:A:P) Opportunity History Original SynopsisSep 12, 2008 1:01 pm Solicitation Number: Y8Y184TSA62-000 Notice Type: Sources Sought Synopsis: Added: Sep 12, 2008 1:01 pm The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to award a sole source purchase order to Sonasoft Corporation, for the purchase of the software licenses related to Exchange Disaster Recovery capabilities. These items and services have been determined to meet the definition of commercial items in accordance with Part 2.101 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. The IRS...

On Friday, Mac Slavo reported on Congressman Darrell Issa's (R-CA) statement in which he called the Internal Revenue Service's claim that Lois Lerner's hard drive crash resulted in a loss of emails "ridiculous." Most of us know that information from crashed hard drives can be recovered, though it costs a lot of money. However, as Mac pointed out, we could simply obtain a copy from the National Security Agency since they are collecting this kind of information. But something more telling has come to light: The IRS uses as an email archiving company to back up its emails. That's right,...