IRS Hard Drives Destroyed?
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How is this even possible? Why do eDiscovery laws not apply to Federal government agencies?
*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,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance Committee, in a brief hallway interview.The article then goes on to mention.....
before May 2013, the IRS only backed up emails for six months on a tape, then recycled the tapes, so they essentially threw out the data.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html#ixzz353JNETJ7
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html#ixzz353ItCsFR* -
Laws do apply. There is just no means of prosecution.
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I bet that hard drive took an "accidental" fall down the stairs.
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"Earlier this week, Ways and Means Republicans said as many as six IRS employees involved in the scandal also lost email in computer crashes, including the former chief of staff for the acting IRS commissioner."
Convenient... They sure have a lot of "computer crashes".
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@ITcrackerjack said:
"Earlier this week, Ways and Means Republicans said as many as six IRS employees involved in the scandal also lost email in computer crashes, including the former chief of staff for the acting IRS commissioner."
Convenient... They sure have a lot of "computer crashes".
I heard this on the news the other day and I just had to laugh out loud. Beyond a RAID set problem, I've not had a hard drive crash on a workstation in my 3 1/.2 years here.
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@garak0410 said:
@ITcrackerjack said:
"Earlier this week, Ways and Means Republicans said as many as six IRS employees involved in the scandal also lost email in computer crashes, including the former chief of staff for the acting IRS commissioner."
Convenient... They sure have a lot of "computer crashes".
I heard this on the news the other day and I just had to laugh out loud. Beyond a RAID set problem, I've not had a hard drive crash on a workstation in my 3 1/.2 years here.
Hard drives are the most frequently failing component that I've seen so far.
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Hard drives, fans and PSUs are the big ones.
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@scottalanmiller So having worked in large enterprise, how many copies of those emails would you suspect exist somewhere? How stinky is this pile of poo for you?
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@alexntg said:
@garak0410 said:
@ITcrackerjack said:
"Earlier this week, Ways and Means Republicans said as many as six IRS employees involved in the scandal also lost email in computer crashes, including the former chief of staff for the acting IRS commissioner."
Convenient... They sure have a lot of "computer crashes".
I heard this on the news the other day and I just had to laugh out loud. Beyond a RAID set problem, I've not had a hard drive crash on a workstation in my 3 1/.2 years here.
Hard drives are the most frequently failing component that I've seen so far.
Every shope I've worked in in the past 6 years I've maybe seen 1 or 2 drives a year. But those systems were abused. I haven't seen one just die without some form of abuse. Not saying it couldn't happen, but it's very unlikely. The fact that they are using this type of excuse for a personal machine (which you and I know they have to have copies of the emails) is down right lying.
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@Bill-Kindle i have been at my company for 2.5 years, we are a metal fab shop and I have had 3 hard drives go out in time i have been here. For several drives to "die" in the same week is very suspicious.
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@david.wiese said:
@Bill-Kindle i have been at my company for 2.5 years, we are a metal fab shop and I have had 3 hard drives go out in time i have been here. For several drives to "die" in the same week is very suspicious.
You are probably running apps that are constantly reading/writing data , and under load. I would expect failures to occur.
A user at a desk just sending emails and what not every day should not have the same results.
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@ITcrackerjack said:
@scottalanmiller So having worked in large enterprise, how many copies of those emails would you suspect exist somewhere? How stinky is this pile of poo for you?
Really stinky. This should be a one in a million risk scenario.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ITcrackerjack said:
@scottalanmiller So having worked in large enterprise, how many copies of those emails would you suspect exist somewhere? How stinky is this pile of poo for you?
Really stinky. This should be a one in a million risk scenario.
COUGH BS *COUGH
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/20/lois-lerner-emailois-lerner-emails-ways-and-means/11044465/ -
http://freebeacon.com/issues/paul-ryan-smash/
Youtube Video – [01:27..]That guy is an #^&@$#^ in his responses to Ryan's questioning.
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@Bill-Kindle said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@ITcrackerjack said:
@scottalanmiller So having worked in large enterprise, how many copies of those emails would you suspect exist somewhere? How stinky is this pile of poo for you?
Really stinky. This should be a one in a million risk scenario.
COUGH BS *COUGH
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/06/20/lois-lerner-emailois-lerner-emails-ways-and-means/11044465/I think this for sure is an apolitical event we can all agree on...biggest load of baloney we've ever heard...
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@Bill-Kindle i can't help but smile at this one. Ryan is from my state, which is awesome. He is correct, the IRS expects us to keep all of this information but yet they cannot keep 6 months of emails? wtf. Do as we say but not as we do?
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Interesting. They do have an outside archive service.
