Little-Acorn
06-16-2014, 01:15 PM
You know the Democrats are losing their grip on government, when they can't even keep their stories straight.
How hasty and panicked was the latest excuse about "Lois Lerner's computer crashed, and that resulted in her emails being deleted"?
Especially after the top IRS official said a few months ago, that IRS emails are kept on remote servers, far from the employee's computer?
And when such backups of official emails systems are required by Federal law???
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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/06/16/flashback-video-irs-commissioner-testified-lerners-emails-are-stored-in-servers-n1851831
IRS Commissioner, in March: Lerner's Emails Are 'Stored in Servers'
Guy Benson | Jun 16, 2014
Camp's office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, "such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices."
(snip)
What a remarkable coincidence. Correspondence that could potentially reveal a wider conspiracy to use the enforcement power of the federal government to target, harass and punish conservative groups has been irreversibly "lost," so the agency's compliance with Congressional subpoenas will necessarily be incomplete. Oh, and the time frame just happens to align with the period in which the targeting practices were first initiated.
Problem: The current IRS commissioner testified under oath in March that agency emails are "stored in servers." This entire exchange with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is worth watching, as John Koskinen serves up excuses for why the IRS has been so slow to turn over requested materials to Congress -- but the key bit begins about 90 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ax6QGmKhRwo
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Chaffetz: What email system do you use there at the IRS?
Koskinen: What email system do we use?
Chaffetz: Yeah, is it Outlook, or…
Koskinen: Yes, we have actually Microsoft -- or at least I have -- Microsoft Outlook.
Chaffetz: So you go on there, and you want to find all of the items you sent under your name, how long would that take?
Koskinen: Well it'd take awhile because they're not all on my computer. They're all stored somewhere.
[Skipping ahead]
Chaffetz: That's [part] of the brilliance of the email system. You go in and you check the 'sent' box, and the inbox, and you suddenly have all of the emails, correct?
Koskinen: Right. They get taken off and stored in servers…
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Based on these answers, those emails should be backed up somewhere on servers, making it utterly implausible that Lerner's so-called computer crash could have permanently deleted any of her messages.
Ed Morrissey notes, "the relevant files would be kept on the servers or on backup media, which would have data for the whole organization and not just a single user…[that's] especially true in organizations that require data storage and full retrieval capacity by statute — such as federal agencies like the IRS."
How hasty and panicked was the latest excuse about "Lois Lerner's computer crashed, and that resulted in her emails being deleted"?
Especially after the top IRS official said a few months ago, that IRS emails are kept on remote servers, far from the employee's computer?
And when such backups of official emails systems are required by Federal law???
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http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2014/06/16/flashback-video-irs-commissioner-testified-lerners-emails-are-stored-in-servers-n1851831
IRS Commissioner, in March: Lerner's Emails Are 'Stored in Servers'
Guy Benson | Jun 16, 2014
Camp's office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, "such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices."
(snip)
What a remarkable coincidence. Correspondence that could potentially reveal a wider conspiracy to use the enforcement power of the federal government to target, harass and punish conservative groups has been irreversibly "lost," so the agency's compliance with Congressional subpoenas will necessarily be incomplete. Oh, and the time frame just happens to align with the period in which the targeting practices were first initiated.
Problem: The current IRS commissioner testified under oath in March that agency emails are "stored in servers." This entire exchange with Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) is worth watching, as John Koskinen serves up excuses for why the IRS has been so slow to turn over requested materials to Congress -- but the key bit begins about 90 seconds in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ax6QGmKhRwo
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Chaffetz: What email system do you use there at the IRS?
Koskinen: What email system do we use?
Chaffetz: Yeah, is it Outlook, or…
Koskinen: Yes, we have actually Microsoft -- or at least I have -- Microsoft Outlook.
Chaffetz: So you go on there, and you want to find all of the items you sent under your name, how long would that take?
Koskinen: Well it'd take awhile because they're not all on my computer. They're all stored somewhere.
[Skipping ahead]
Chaffetz: That's [part] of the brilliance of the email system. You go in and you check the 'sent' box, and the inbox, and you suddenly have all of the emails, correct?
Koskinen: Right. They get taken off and stored in servers…
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Based on these answers, those emails should be backed up somewhere on servers, making it utterly implausible that Lerner's so-called computer crash could have permanently deleted any of her messages.
Ed Morrissey notes, "the relevant files would be kept on the servers or on backup media, which would have data for the whole organization and not just a single user…[that's] especially true in organizations that require data storage and full retrieval capacity by statute — such as federal agencies like the IRS."