2seaoat wrote:"The IRS told Congress last week that it could not produce all of Lerner's emails because her computer crashed in 2011."
I am trying to turn the light on.........but it is getting very difficult. Do you understand that the IRS, the Department of Defense, and the State Department do not have jurisdiction over employee computers. Do you understand that any employee can choose any email server as the same free choice you or I have? Do you understand that a subpoena was necessary for forensic experts to physically take possession of the computer, and the committee staff did not issue those subpoena's? Do you understand that in open testimony the IRS said that it would produce emails under its control after lawyers had redacted information from the same, and they gave the time table of first quarter 2015 because there are 20k documents to review. Do you understand that camp and other congressmen want the IRS to assign more lawyers to that task, yet they have failed to subpoena and get those hard drives for forensic experts? Do you realize no official statement from the IRS has been given except the verbal representation that the IRS has not gotten ALL the emails of the six employees, and this verbal representation comes from representative camp?
Do you now understand how this is simply and utterly manipulative by the show committee to establish in the media that somehow the IRS had jurisdiction over private computers and private email servers, and that somehow they were supposed to subpoena the same? Now......the big question......why? I have turned the light on, but if you want to shut it off and claim that the IRS is losing personal emails on employee computers.......you can remain in the dark.
Actually your comprehension of the issue is rather weak. Let me help you (if that's possible) since it's apparent you fail to understand this isn't just about a personally owned computer - it's about an employee mail box containing federal data. Federal employees are required to protect data related to the employer. Perhaps that's why she resigned, she failed to follow the law.
"The IRS is apparently alleging two things: that Lerner’s personal computer crashed, rendering emails stored on her computer unrecoverable and also that there is no backup of what was on the email servers in 2011 because the backup tapes are overwritten every six months. Many IT professionals, including a former IRS employee, have called into question the IRS’s assertion that the agency has no backup of data stored on the servers for the time period in question. In fact, IRS commissioner Koskinen testified in March that IRS emails, including Lois Lerner’s, “get taken off and stored in servers.” The IRS also says it was able to recover 24,000 emails that related to Lerner, some of them from an “earlier 2011 data collection of Ms. Lerner’s email.” This would seem to confirm Commissioner Koskinen’s statement that the emails are “stored in servers” since the IRS says they were unable to recover any emails from Lerner’s hard drive.
In a letter explaining the missing emails to Congress the IRS said, “Any of Ms. Lerner’s email that was only stored on that computer’s hard drive would have been lost when the computer crashed and could not be recovered.” IT professionals are also scoffing at the notion that the data was not recoverable."
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/06/17/did-lois-lerner-violate-irs-policy-on-email-preservation/
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