Sources: Lois Lerner’s emails likely gone forever
By RACHAEL BADE | 6/18/14 9:59 PM EDT Updated: 6/18/14 11:34 PM EDT
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 Repu told POLITICO the same late Wednesday, citing IRS officials.
Two additional sources told POLITICO the same late Wednesday, citing IRS officials.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html#ixzz354hOtzEn
Bigger than Watergate.
The liberal press and media just ignore it.
Unbelievable.
This country is going down the tubes.
God help the next generation.
And the response from America … “Who cares! Did you see what Kim Kardashian was wearing?”
Obama and his administration know that Nixon lost his office in large part because he didn’t burn the tapes. They have not repeated that mistake.
Why is this worse than Watergate? Back in ’72, Republican party operatives targeted the other party. This time, government agencies are being used, and they’re targeting citizen groups.
Laughable.
Local Desktop computer crashes and “all email is gone”
Really? This is the excuse provided by the “tech savvy” Obama
Are these people so technically ignorant that they think email is stored locally?
Are they saying that the email servers also crashed and the daily (if not more frequent) server backups are lost?
And the offsite storage facility where long term backups are stored has been destroyed?
And the recipients of the emails (and the people that they forwarded the emails to have also had their computers crash and their emails were lost?
And nobody printed off ANY email ever? There would be paper copies as well as email logs and (possibly) email images stored by the networked printers.
AND… IF ALL OF THE ABOVE WAS TRUE (100% unlikely) – then the entire government IT organization should be fired immediately and we have a much bigger problem – that the government’s IT is incompetent and critical data is not being secured and protected – a major, major national security issue as well as a major, major scandal.
Really – this is beyond insulting and laughable.
They might as well have said that “The dog ate Lois Lerner’s emails” – that would be more believable.
#4 I agree with you. Email is on the IRS email server. Even of she had an email program on her desktop computer it is getting the mail from the IRS server. The IRS server is backed up.
She can crash all the hard drives she wants, her email is still there.