Comments on: IRS: computer crash ate two years’ worth of Lerner emails

By: IRS scandal: the dog wiped their emails, cont'd - Overlawyered

IRS scandal: the dog wiped their emails, cont'd - Overlawyered — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:45:03 +0000

[…] an update on the fast-developing scandal of evidence destruction at the IRS in my new Cato post (earlier). If not for reading Kim Strassel and her colleagues at the Wall Street Journal, I might not have […]

By: captnhal

captnhal — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:19:35 +0000

It seems that Lerner’s weren’t the only emails lost: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/lawmakers-irs-lost-more-emails-in-tea-party-probe/2014/06/17/f81ca68c-f63b-11e3-afdf-f7ffea8c744a_story.html

By: Boblipton

Boblipton — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:37:13 +0000

These are the same computers they store our tax records on?

Bob

By: wfjag

wfjag — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:27:36 +0000

Why all the suspicion? It is merely an example of Darwinian niche filling by organisms. For every niche, an organisim evolves to feed on what is there. Simply put:

Canidae Computarus Lossois Lerneri emasticated my emails

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:14:13 +0000

Even I generate substantial email files. But my dear wife manages to destroy my files at least once a year. So if there is a supena or just a rewuest for emails, the probability of getting everything quickly is near zero. Then the requesting entity can claim cover up, hiding the ball, etc. It happens time after time after time. It is long past time to seriously curb requests for emails. Generally they are more like telephone calls than formal contracts.

Ms. Lerner was a fine public servant who is collateral damage from Senator Hatch’s manipulation of the IRS IG. Senator Hatch is the person deserving of being boiled in oil.

By: VMS

VMS — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:00:50 +0000

Hmmm! So the mighty IRS doesn’t have tiered backup servers and archive storage. This is impossible to believe. Also, aside from the sender’s computer, there are many archived copies of these e-mails floating around. I think that an independent company may be able to find these mysteriously missing e-mails and recover them if they were purposely erased. I doubt that they were “wiped” with a DoD 5220.22-M or similar procedure. And if they were, there would be evidence of such purposeful wiping.

By: spodula

spodula — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:31:00 +0000

Speaking as someone who works in IT, that sort of major screwup seems…. unlikely….

Perhaps someone should ask for the names of the (Presumably now fired) employees who failed to follow basic backup procedures as well as failing to install MS exchange properly.