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Darrell Issa Fuming Upon Learning Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Was Destroyed
Following Darrell Issa's subpoena of Lois Lerner's hard drive, the rather stunning (and ripped from the pages of a badly written inside-Washington TV mini-series) news is that the IRS reports that the hard drive in question has been destroyed (just as we hinted last night). "We've been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away," Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview and as Politico reports, Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources. Issa is pissed... blasting in a statement that the 'lost emails' meme was "just one more attempted deception... e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention." His response... requesting the White House attorney's testimony on Lerner's emails.
Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found, according to multiple sources.
“We’ve been informed that the hard drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
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“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.
“We believe the standard IRS protocol was followed in 2011 for disposing of the broken hard drive. A bad hard drive, like other broken Information Technology equipment, is sent to a recycler as part of our regular process,” an IRS spokesman said in response to a query from POLITICO.
So the standard IRS protocol is to wipe away all the evidence? Can US taxpayers then use the same protocol to "wipe away" their W2s?
As for this latest fiasco, who could have possibly seen that coming? Well, everyone.
As for the hard disk, we have a suspicion it will not only have passed through a massive magnetic field first, but ultimately Issa will receive something that looks like this:
At that point it will be up to America's army of White Hat hackers to attempt salvaging whatever data is on it. Because only in the US government - the same government that demands businesses retain electronic data for years at at ime - is there no requirement to back up one's communications and files.
Upon learning about the latest lie from the IRS he issued this statement.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, issued the following statement on news that the IRS destroyed Lois Lerner’s hard drive containing e-mails from the time period of IRS targeting:
“If the IRS truly got rid of evidence in a way that violated the Federal Records Act and ensured the FBI never got a crack at recovering files from an official claiming a Fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination , this is proof their whole line about ‘losing’ e-mails in the targeting scandal was just one more attempted deception. Old and useless binders of information are still stored and maintained on federal agency shelves; official records, like the e-mails of a prominent official, don’t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention.”
And finally his latest request:
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa requests testimony on Tuesday from Jennifer O’Connor of the White House Counsel’s office, according to statement from Issa’s office
Committee seeks answers from current White House attorney who supervised IRS’s response to congressional inquiry
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today requested that Ms. Jennifer O’Connor of the White House Counsel’s office testify on Tuesday, following Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen’s testimony on Monday.
“From May 2013 until November 2013, you served in a career position at the IRS as the Counselor to the Commissioner, with the primary task of ‘navigat[ing] the scandal over [the IRS’s] reviews of conservative organizations,’” said Issa in the letter. “In this position, you had a direct and substantial role in the IRS’s response to congressional requests for documents, including documents sent or received by Ms. Lerner. In fact, IRS Chief Counsel William Wilkins, when asked who was supervising the collection of, ‘documents relating to the committee’s requests for material,’ responded ‘Tom Kane and Jennifer [O’Connor] are the two I would identify as the key supervisors.’ Given your prominent role in supervising the IRS’s document review and production processes, you likely knew or should have known that the IRS was missing a portion of e-mails sent or received by Ms. Lerner responsive to the Committee’s subpoena.”
Ms. O’Connor earned a promotion to the White House earlier this year. The Oversight Committee had previously subpoenaed Koskinen for testimony which comes as a result of the agency’s recent statement that the IRS lost an unknown number of emails pertaining to the activities of former IRS official Lois Lerner from January 2009 to April 2011. It also comes on the heels of the IRS’s repeated empty promises of compliance with oversight.
One wonders how long before her hard drive fails? and also how long until Americans finally realize they too have had enough, and proceed to inform the IRS they have systematically "lost" all tax forms documenting income sent to them in the last several years as well?
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Yep, here's the name of my "service rep" on my last audit (which I beat...suck it!)
Sashona Johnson-Bailey
Hmmm...
If the GOP would get the guts to do it they need only announce that all US aid programs for Israel will be cancelled and visas to Israeli citizens denied until the e-mails are produced they'd have them tomorrow morning.
Issa is buying time. This IRS scandal crisis is his "pet project". He want's to nuke "Lois Liar (Lerner) witnesses and testimony.
Try this weird trick to reduce your taxes
Complements of Atomizer.
Comrades!
This weird trick can help reduce any penalties or survive any audit by the glorious IRS.
When confronted by the Auditors of Redistribution, one must simply state: "I have lost my tax records from the past seven years due to a computer glitch." That statement will be unarguable from their standpoint.
Forward Comrades! The fundamental transformation of the IRS continues!
Government needs you to pay taxes. One cannot tyrannize by fiat conjuring alone.
'Issa is buying time.'
No Issa isn't.
Issa is collaborating to bury evidence and obstruct public disclosure of previous collaboration which would incriminate the leadership of BOTH the Democrats and the Republicans.
The Democrats and the Republicans BOTH wanted the grass-roots movements stopped.
OWS & the Tea Party were crushed in concert; but, the right wing was too well organized and coherent...
The Tea Party was as much or MORE a threat to the Republicans as it was to the Democrats.
Issa and the Republicans collaborated with the Democrats to destroy the emergent 'right wing' opposition which would have damaged the Republicans FIRST as the defeat of Cantor has clearly displayed...
Issa is the last bastion of Republicanism in Kalifornia.
He's being prudent and articulate, while accumulating knowledge and facts.
Issa is one of the richest people in congress.
He doesn't want to lose his right to trade on inside information.
This left/right Dem/Rep bullshit is for children.
Cantor showed who was really gonna get tossed out of high office FIRST if the opposition came from the right flank.
IF the Tea Party is considered from a military strategy perspective it is the Republican leadership that are most endangered. The NeoCon 'Republican' Status Quo were being out flanked. They collaborated with the Democrats.
That same ol' 'enemy of my enemy is my friend' shit that has the Administration talking about overthrowing Maliki and collaborating with Iran in Iraq was and is going on at the IRS.
Thanks for the Bio. Why did you wait for over (4) years to opine?
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Ask around -I've been around.
Try mentioning my name over at Naked Capitalism or Market Ticker and see how THAT goes over.
@ ThroxxOfVron I just appreciate the fact, that you still take the time to listen to us retarded useless "retail traders" .
Listen? To Red/Blue Tag Team BS ?
Your point being?
Maybe haven't supplied a bio as I don't care to.
Do You get MY point?
I don't require representation real or imagined. I can represent myself as well or as poorly as anyone else.
I don't need a party. I AM a party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=You1z6H6Nvg&feature=kp
Or, as the case may be:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCcbKAhlY0&feature=kp
I'm not fighting with you ThroxxOfVron
I don't need links or causes. I appreciate the fact that you spend time with me.
I'm just a "small time investor" that doesn't want to be abused. (what's 20-30 cents off every put/call contract?)
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Good. You are fighting against him and his ilk? Yes. Good.
Your first post was on June 7, 2014.
http://www.zerohedge.com/search/user_comments?page=3&name=ThroxxOfVron
You are a sleeper agent. Who(m) else are you?
Maybe I will do a DNS check and run it against all other users' DNS to find out. In fact if I can hack and do that then perhaps the IRS can...retrieve those emails???
Can't go by that.
Tyler has a few broken drive arrays, as well....or some shit didn't make za move to Switzerland. Probably lost a lot of our stuff flushing Francis' post when the move was made to the more PC Fight Club.
The archive ain't what it used to be......
"Your first post was on June 7, 2014."
1st. Bullshit. There are several people on this thread that know who I am and what I stand for and against quite well...
2nd. ZH posts have been lost or scrubbed. I was around when there was still a Marla in the joint and ambient music feeds on weekends. IF it ain't there -it isn't my problem and I don't care.
3rd. I already pointed out that You can go ask around other spots as well. Denninger @ Market Ticker sure knows who I am...not that he is going to like anyone asking or looking at what I had to say before I got banned.
4. DNS yourself out. You'll find plenty of just what your hearing right here -and more...
I like your posts Throxx.
TOV is legit; while he was lurking here, he's one of the old-timers from the TickerForum before it went supernova and imploded.
IIRC, he lives in the NYC and has no milquetoast opinions.
I don't know if he was one of the original day-1 TickerForum members, but he's well-known out and about and probably dangerous.
$600 million worth, a couple of years ago he was the richest.
Pelosi has probably left him in the dust.
I thought that the IRS the FED, (and Eric Holder) were above the law. Lois Lerner could invoke a unicorn ate her hard drive defense, and get away with it.
she basically did
Just subpoena all IRS offsite backup servers and the entire IRS IT department. Think computer forensics. They're really fucked if stored on the Cloud.
/LOL
blah blah blag, $ucking charade by the commie loser imbeciles in office 7 the "fuming" rinos who at days end, meet to split the procedes of today corruption. They should all be burned at the stake for their version of witchcraft
Mellow out. The information will be obtained. The emails are quite available. Give it a few weeks. IMHO.
this will dissapear like everything else does as more & more scandals appear. Why hasn't the conniving bitch been granted amnesty to nail the corrupt bastards? - never happen as they are all in this corruption - oh yes, only one news source carries any real news, the other are up micheal's skirt checking out her pantie colour while rome burns
I think they will find the MH370 flight data recorder long before those emails turn up.
They are sitting in boxes on the same shelf.
STOP PAYING TAXES - YOU DON'T HAVE TO - COPY WASH SHIT TON
Complements of Atomizer.
Comrades!
This weird trick can help reduce any penalties or survive any audit by the glorious IRS.
When confronted by the Auditors of Redistribution, one must simply state: "I have lost my tax records from the past seven years due to a computer glitch." That statement will be unarguable from their standpoint.
Forward Comrades! The fundamental transformation of the IRS continues!
this is all bullshit and poneys if no one goes to jail for destroying the hard-drive.
No one will go to jail. Lois has FIENDS in high places.
The hard drive had a nail gun accident.
The hard drive resisted arrest and was shot.
The hard drive had a text-change operation, and is now soft.
The hard drive has moved to russia to work with Snowden.
The hard drive was having family problems that caused it to spin out of control.
The hard drive was audited by the IRS and is broken up about it.
The hard drive committed suicide by heart attack in a small plane because it had just been diagnosed with a rare aggressive terminal cancer.
The hard drives neck fell onto the curb 19 times and could not be resuscitated.
It's already been mentioned, but this story is so laughable on so many levels. I am the Exchange admin for my organization and no matter what email solution they were using, for disaster purposes there would be database copies; probably numerous copies - local backups and offsite tape backups.
No one in the media should be buying this horseshit story. At the very least there would be disaster backups of the mail system. In the case of Exchange, you would have backups of the databases and possibly even mailbox/brick level backups for granular email restore.
In short, this story is shit. Local hard drives have nothing to do with email!
^this^
Word up.
People got apeshit about their emails. I was an Exchange Admin for a while and got burnt out on it. People save fucking everything and use email basically as a file server rather than just communication. Plus, people are always in CYA mode. Keep everything...forever. I personally don't work that way. If you gotta CYA that much, might want to do some soul searching or get in another line of work.
I'd bet my right nut that Lois has a copy of her local .pst archive file on a USB drive for "insurance" purposes. Probably in a safe deposit box.
You don't fuck with email servers.
I do VMWare now as a contractor for another gov contractor. Shit runs tight.
You can't just go around willy nilly deleting and whipping data. There are audit/access and logging trails. Plus, if she was using commercial email for her hi-jinx, that's another major policy violation and probably broke many laws in itself. That also would be easy to subpoena and expose.
So, if say, half the populous has knowledge of this, why is the story circulating?
Why any mention of a hard drive at all when anyone that isn't hooked up to life support knows its a lie?
The theater is wearing thin. Folks of both stripes are starting to question the shit they are feed by pols and MSN Mockingbird.
Bingo! I too, work extensively with Exchange. It is highly likely, that this IS has some type of email archiving application in place that stores emails for 7 years at least.
This is all just your typical gubmint dog and pony show constructed with red herrings for the explicit purposes of establishing plausible deniability among the members of the most popular criminal gang in the land.
If you believe anything out of the craphouse or wash shit ton, you truly are an idiot retard. Trust nothing out of any of the lying bastads on the hill. This is just all show to keep you distracted while they financilly rape you & con you to go into wars etc. to further their chests. They are all basically very evil!
Easy there 'sizzle chest'. No one is disagreeing with you.
Take a breath/ evaluate the situation/ make a decision/
+1 For using the phrase "Sizzle Chest"
My bet is that Obama just found out about this when he saw it on the evening news.......oh wait, this isn't on the evening news is it? No "Nightline, day 765 of the IRS scandal" show tonight ? No questions from Brian Williams such as 'what did Obama know and when did he know it?'
Issa isn't that stupid. I think they are navigating this process for the biggest media explosion around election time. Do you notice how protracted this is and the hole keeps being dug deeper. Issa is just giving them more rope and wondering "Do they really think I'm that stupid?" I think he's angry because he's realized that, "Yes, the do think you're that stupid Issa." This will only motivate him more.
@ Dr.Engineer, I think your hypothesis is very well engineered. ;-)
you trust the traitor rinos? I sure do not. Beside they always self implode or the leftard media destroy / bomb them & then they cower in the corner. Losers all
I trust No-One. ( I trust my Mother )
MEDIA - WHAT MEDIA? You are living in a box. Fox is the only one reporting anything about these imbecile fraudsters. At elections time the leftist media (80%) will convice the low info etc, buy them a new phone & the rinos will be decimated
What IF Issa AND his fellow Republicans ARE the senders and recipients of a significant portion of the emails?
DO You think that Issa would destroy a significant portion of the Republican leadership and seriously damage his own political machine even if HE is personally clean just to try get at lame duck Obama?
The Republicans needed the Administration to help them stomp the Tea Party/Right Wing insurgency; and the IRS did some fine stomping...
What if aliens are inhabiting Issa's body?
If you're serious, share your ideas in an semi "irrational" way with people you know. Show them the facts on paper, and recordings . I'm here to take the side of honesty.
The Republicans have an Impeachment level offence if they can find ONE email that clearly shows the Administration orchestrated IRS abuses for Political gain.
There can only be one reason that it isn't being pursued with a vengeance: the Republicans are fully implicated and CAN'T go after Obama without blowing Themselves up.
-It's the only answer that actually makes sense politically.
IF the Republicans are shown to be employing the IRS in concert with the Democrats to destroy political movements; then the Country will know BOTH Parties are hopelessly corrupted and hopelessly inter-dependent.
The can be no Democracy if BOTH Parties are in effect ONE Corrupt Cabal of Power Monopolists.
That means that any true change cannot be instituted via peaceful political means.
People will understand that Voting and Due Process are totally irrelevent...
I'm well aware of the Rupugnants "Impeachment Procedings".
FWIW > Don't confuse or obfiscate due process with SCOTUS decisions.
FWIW > it is SCOTUS, and not I; who appear to make an all too regular habit of confusing and/or obsfucating due process.
We mustn't spare them from paying the price for such treason any more than the other criminals corrupting and subverting the system...
@ ThroxxOfVron you definitely have a future in editing.
Nun the less, I agree with your subversion concept. All for one "elected" for the majority.
If Issa means it, he will ask these questions:
http://sharylattkisson.com/lois-lerners-lost-emails-questions-for-the-irs/
those doubting the imperial one or minions or posting negative thoughts will be dealt with accordingly - now sit back & watch your country implode & enjoy it or off to the camps for you
The amount of lawlessness increases to new heights everyday! Go USSA!
I think I filed my taxes on Lois Lerner's hard drive. Sorry IRS, it was my only copy.
YOUR OBAMACIDE COMPROMISED CORRUPT COVER UP MEDIA, is the cause of all Americas problems. Until you realize that, notheing will change - only get worse
Translation to his "fuming": "I want my payoff raised."
A scumbag like Issa, any pol for that matter, but especially a DC US pol, only cares about their next payoff.
New term. Lois has a Lerner's permit. Just like Eric Holder has a Holders permit.
The Lois Lerner's hard drive backups are next to Obama's birth cirtificate.
In every company I know, the company email server is redundantly backed up and archived on a regular basis. They do not depend on emails to be kept on the user's hard drive. That would be idiocy.
I guess the US government is just more stupid than every other company in the world.
"Darrell Issa Fuming Upon Learning Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Was Destroyed...."
Doesn't matter idiot. That's the problem of having computer illeterate morons in charge.
Im a computer retard and evenI know for a fact it dont work like that.
Please step away from the Congress
Email them - provided of course...nevermind. Here is a format to make it painless. As bipartisan as I could make it.
Dear Senator or congressman whomever:
The recent events regarding the alleged IRS targeting of conservative political groups has prompted me to write you this letter.
The use of public resources to stymie the political opposition is clearly inappropriate and will not be tolerated. But what is particularly disconcerting is that congress is completely unable to find out, definitively, what had happened.
The inability of our federal government to effectively investigate the IRS represents a clear breakdown in the government?s system of checks and balances. To even allow the IRS to destroy evidence during an investigation is, in and of itself, criminal.
You should know this, but so as to not take any chances I will remind you: Our government is charged with the task of, above all else, protecting the freedom and rights of its citizens. It is not to be complacent while one of its many bureaucracies victimizes and intimidates its citizenry while aiding in ?what I can only describe as ? a type of election fraud.
SENATOR OR CONGRESSMAN, I ask this from you: become passionate about (1.) getting to the bottom of the IRS allegations (no political party can argue that it is unimportant) (2.) punishing those that tampered with evidence during an investigation (both sides of the aisle should agree it is important and that it actually occurred) and (3.) preventing departments and bureaucracies from deviating from their originally intended purposes in the future (bipartisan-approved goals all around).
Seeing as how there should be no political opposition to such indisputably positive objectives, your new passion should see abrupt results. Now I know you are already brimming with ideas of how you can complete these objectives, but I would like to make some suggestions myself.
- Use a carrot. Provide a large monetary reward to whomever comes forward with Learner?s missing emails. This may sound like a radical idea, but please read on. The reward doesn?t have to be publicly funded. Within days I could have a crowd-sourced prize large enough to make anyone turn on their morally-vacant ideology. Just let me know.
- Create a department charged with two objectives:
1. To record any and all transactions, communications, and dealings of the federal government. If the NSA can do this for an entire country, it is not fantasy to imagine a government that actually knows what it is doing some of the time.
2. To monitor the bureaucracies and assure the United States that they are only pursuing objectives in line with their originally intended purposes.
I sincerely thank you for your new enthusiasm and passion in this matter.
Awaiting actual, substantive results,
ENTER NAME
I bet the memory on all the Photo Copiers are also destoyed. As a side note....anything printed on a photo copier can be retrieved. But the investigaters know that....Right.....Right?
Only a brain-stem or liberal, but I repeat myself, would believe this story for a second. Email is the one electronic form of document that cannot be lost. Every person it was ever sent to, and all system backups of the sender and receivers would have to have been destroyed for an email to disappear. Plus, someone likely printed it and/or copied it, which is also stored on disk.
It's fucking impossible there is no trace of these emails unless there has been a concerted effort to make it disappear.....from everywhere.....
Just call the fucking NSA - if no one else has a copy, they do.
Somebody call Lucas van Praag out of retirement and check that garbage room in New York where they found that fully functional Fabrice laptop...
So are Americans supposed to believe that her emails just magically disappear from the IRS email servers? There are no backups or records? I guess that the small company that I work for has a better IT department (me) than the IRS.
Also, as others have mentioned previously, americans better not lose their tax records. I sure am glad this is an isolated incident. oops! Now for something completely different.
I mentioned this story to someone I work with earlier this week. Everything seems normal. The only thing wrong about it was the red team's investigation. Fucking stupid. I guess he must watch the news.
Here’s the political calculus:
Before this revelation, Dumbassrats were daring the Repugs to throw a woman (Lois Lerner) in jail.
Then this bullshit story hit. Nobody believes it, and it even seems like some part of the vox populi ignoranti is starting to see thru this galactic corruption of the Obungle Court. Now all bets are off.
Here are the key words in Issa’s letter:
“…you likely knew or should have known…”
Them’s fightin’ words, the law- talkin’ kind.
Ms. O’Connor is about to be subpoenaed, likely charged, and likely imprisoned.
Ms Lerner is also about to be imprisoned. Both by the House Sergeant at Arms.
Next, they should threaten some of the low-level IRS IT shlubs, and one of them will spill the beans.
The emails at minimum contain direct evidence of White House involvement in the illegal IRS actions.
As a former Microsoft and Cisco systems engineer, I can attest that in any corporate environment all emails accounts are client server based. So multiple hard drives across multiple arrays and 500 back ups must have all gone amiss! 250 days of daily backups / annum x 2 years so that for every email to have gone missing is absolutely bollocks! That means they are lying!. Why don't they just fry the b*tioch and be done with it!
Because those emails expose an Obama connection.
...and that would be Rayciss...
Rayciss, funny if Dr Angelou had a son his name would be Rayciss
She will never fry because she is "connected". She and her husband are Obama loyalist dupes. She might fall on a foam rubber sword and get an administrative penalty and a fine and end up with a fat "consulting" job at some lobbying outfit that pays four times her IRS salary. Hell, Hillary might bring her on for the 2016 campaign.
Brown shirts love witch hunts.
This one-bad-drive bullshit is so easily discredited by any IT pro that I think Lerner just got herself on the executive order freak accident list.
For the IRS to come up with a story this cock-and-bull, it certainly leads straight to the Choom-in-Chief, which would make Watergate look like small 'taters.
It will soon come out that the NSA, Seal Team Six, McGruber, the Professor on Gilligan's Island, and Chuck Norris put together couldn't have made all those e-mails disappear.
This could be Choomsday.
Choomsday
Very excellent.
So they are going to sit there and say that the RAID array on the email server somehow managed to suffer an impossible failure, the tape backups were all lost, and sadly the only thing left was a personal hard drive which also magically died and was recycled all at the same exact time to ensure that the questionable timeframe of emails were all lost. And they expect anyone to buy that story?
Well, looks like I'll be filing my taxes this year, what the hell, whip out the old excel chart and crunch the numbers to ensure I get free money despite having paid them nothing in over a decade. No prepayments, nadda, zip, zero, zilch. If they audit it, well... that hard drive was lost, sorry, money please.
RAID... REDUNDANT array of INDEPENDENT disks.
DDSSL... Don't drop the soap in the shower, Lois.
There are legal remedies for those who obstruct justice. They work in any society where justice applies to all and is the rule of the day. In our society some are above justice. In our society, justice is reserved for the Goyim.
Auto thief and insurance fraudster Darrel Issa knows a crook when he sees one. While he's at it he can investigate the non-profit groups engaged in political spending, screwing the taxpayers out of millions of dollars. That's the real scandal.
I'm not tech genius but I know e-mails pass through servers where they are stored.
The hard drive wont matter with regard to emails. What a joke.
Not to worry NSA has the emails backed up. If they say they don't they are either covering up more criminal activity, or all this talk about total survellience was a fake smoke screen to intimidate everyone.
Eric Holder should be hauled into court for what he did... and >> Barney Frank , Chris Dodd . . ++
Why they don't just show how worthy the NSA is on data collection and simply ask them for the emails, is just baffling.
Do something or SHUT THE FUCK UP.
A quick smell test (disregarding the email server backup policies): Has any other IRS employee lost all their email messages covering the exact same period?
Some have trouble accepting that these unfortunate and regrettable deletions of evidence do happen. I remember poor Rose Mary Woods who worked for the nice Mr Nixon being pilloried just because she "accidentally pressed the erase button on the tape recorder while reaching for the phone, and then forwarded the tape by keeping her foot on a pedal." and in doing so sadly deleted what might have been damning evidence against her boss. A completely understandable error, just like Ms Lerner's. People must stop being so cynical.
"If you are interested in my view as to what happened, it is very simple," Mr Nixon told a selection of the jurors and lawyers in a Florida conference room. "It is that it was an accident."
Quite so.
Just ask NSA about those emails.
I though each important Government employee had a secret alias email account in which all "non Public" information was sent to. Like Os_Lacky_No1@IRS.com "Hey Lois the tea party stooges are starting to squeal like piggies..... prepare plan b and destroy the HD"
Will government policy be now to keep all communications on multiple drives updated every hour.
Emails always have a trail, I am sure some competent IT person could trace back on other Hard drives her emails.
Lois Lerner's husband:
http://www.sutherland.com/People/Michael-R-Miles
Interesting professional emphasis...?
note this in his resume/bio: "[he has] substantial experience in obtaining rulings for clients on corporate tax [matters]..."
The goobermint is teaching us all very well: just become lawless.
To say we are awash in scandals is an understatement. It is fortunate that the American people have the attention span of a gnat, this will help them through these troubled times. It is almost guaranteed that all the scandals and all the revelations that emerge from the nations capital will come to naught. A polarized America has become unable to react with any real outrage.
It appears that in its current form our Government has simply become to big to obtain the degree of over-site necessary to keep its agencies in line. These scandals are becoming to many to count, but to small to have much meaning to many people. Even when the law is broken the Presidents supporters often try to argue it away as political nitpicking. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/05/scandal-upon-scandal-upon-scandal...
Did you say something about nakid gnats?
I'm hungry
Today I went back to the data law course I took as a Manager of Data Base Administration in 2002. I used the summary sheets of the various federal data laws to estimate probable jail time in the Lois Lerner case. I came up with 4 to 7 people responsible for data law violations. The jail terms I estimated would range from 3 to 5 years for 4 people (technicians) and with 3 people (managers) serving from 20 to 50 years hard time. These estimates do not include the terms added for laws violated if the data was altered in any way.
I spent years listening to auditors who screamed the government was cracking down on data mishandling. Now our own government pisses in our faces and flaunts these “strict” laws. There are thousands of people in our federal jails for “white collar” crimes that involved these data laws. I now believe these people can make a great case for sentence reductions or parole.
The Obama administration is making a mockery of our constitution and our legal system. This too will come back to haunt them…
The American public should be rip-shit pissed...!!
But they're far too concerned with Kim and Kanye....
U.S.S.A.
It's official.
The only mistake here is by the Adminstration. By "losing" the emails it exposes the Fed Gov as fallible. I think they will "find" them, declare victory and say "let's move on" to more important things like bombing Iraq.
All this spying is used to crush dessent. Just like the IRS was used in this case. Want to know how the world is run? This is how.