Union Leader Discovers That the IRS Lost Some Emails (Updated) - Granite Grok

Union Leader Discovers That the IRS Lost Some Emails (Updated)

lerner email bluescreenYesterday morning I noted that no one in NH media had dropped one dot of ink, digital or otherwise, on the latest feature of the IRS tea Party targeting scandal. You recall the IRS scandal.  That’s one of the scandals where no one wants to testify, Lois Lerner plead the fifth, people are hiding and ducking, democrats are blocking every effort to find out who is connected to the intimidation of tea party groups, and now important correspondence between key players has gone missing –but there’s no scandal, seriously, this was just made up by the Right to distract us. (From what, Benghazi?)

Well, the Union Leader has finally embraced the latest aspect of the IRS targeting scandal.  They have a large article in today’s paper, page two no less, by Rachel Bade, which reports that Lerner’s computer crashed back in 2011 and the IRS lost a lot of stuff.  (A lot!)  They think they can recover some of that, but they may not have even backed up Lois Lerner’s email every day…maybe.  It’s complicated.

whisper/ Write that down and use it the next time the IRS asks you for something.  And why not.  NH Agencies do that as well.

NH DES and NH IT had a similar problem when we requested data related to the on-the-clock internet surfing habits of their highly-paid staff, some of whom were acting as political or union advocates on taxpayer time.  They had some issues that jut happened to delete all of the data we just happened to be looking for.

Crazy universe, right?

IRS, which backs up everything, every day, and would never accept this sort of excuse from a taxpayer being audited, now says it does not back up all of its employees emails because that would be a lot of emails, but then Lois Lerner is not just any IRS employee.

IRS Jedi mind trick.  “We did not back up the emails you’re looking for…”

Conveniently for her, the IRS, and the Obama Administration, she’s just in charge of a bunch of stuff that connects her to a politically motivated targeting scandal that would violate certain American’s first amendment rights in a critical presidential election year, and send a bunch of important people to prison.

Crazy universe, right?

Note: If you folks could please check the rest of the progressive press in NH to see if they are sharing the new no-backup, computer crashed, nothing to see here narrative, I’d appreciate it.   Let me know if you find anything.

Update: Hot Air – Sharyl Atkisson has some questions she would like asked regarding the IRS dog at my homework defense:

  • Please provide a timeline of the crash and documentation covering when it was first discovered and by whom; when, how and by whom it was learned that materials were lost; the official documentation reporting the crash and federal data loss; documentation reflecting all attempts to recover the materials; and the remediation records documenting the fix. This material should include the names of all officials and technicians involved, as well as all internal communications about the matter.
  • Please provide all documents and emails that refer to the crash from the time that it happened through the IRS’ disclosure to Congress Friday that it had occurred.
  • Please provide the documents that show the computer crash and lost data were appropriately reported to the required entities including any contractor servicing the IRS. If the incident was not reported, please explain why.
  • Please provide a list summarizing what other data was irretrievably lost in the computer crash. If the loss involved any personal data, was the loss disclosed to those impacted? If not, why?
  • Please provide documentation reflecting any security analyses done to assess the impact of the crash and lost materials. If such analyses were not performed, why not?
  • Please provide documentation showing the steps taken to recover the material, and the names of all technicians who attempted the recovery.
  • Please explain why redundancies required for federal systems were either not used or were not effective in restoring the lost materials, and provide documentation showing how this shortfall has been remediated.
  • Please provide any documents reflecting an investigation into how the crash resulted in the irretrievable loss of federal data and what factors were found to be responsible for the existence of this situation.
  • I would also ask for those who discovered and reported the crash to testify under oath, as well as any officials who reported the materials as having been irretrievably lost.

 

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