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Post by deepsea on Jun 23, 2014 6:44:48 GMT -4
IRS says Lerner emails lost forever, but agency had contract with file-storage company Sonasoft. The Obama administration claims that emails connected to Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the Tea Party-targeting scandal, are lost forever because her computer hard drive crashed, but skeptics are pointing out the agency had a contract with a file-storage company. House congressional investigators have requested emails from 2009 to 2011, when the IRS division led by Lerner began targeting for extra scrutiny Tea Party and other conservative nonprofits applying for tax-exempt status. The IRS had a contract with email-achiever Sonasoft in effect at least through 2009, according to the website FedSpending.org. That same year, the company tweeted: “The IRS uses Sonasoft to back up their servers, why wouldn’t you choose them to protect your servers?” And a document on the company website suggests its system "archives all email content and so reduces the risk of non-compliance with legal, regulatory and other obligations to preserve critical business content." However, whether Sonasoft’s government contract extended through 2011 or if the company had the capacity to save every email from such a large agency remains unclear. The California-based company could not be reached Sunday for comment. www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/22/irs-says-lerner-emails-lost-forever-but-agency-had-contract-with-achieve-vendor/
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Post by oriolesfan on Jun 23, 2014 10:58:13 GMT -4
Go figure that one huh? Certainly not surprised
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Post by wyecomputers on Jun 23, 2014 11:38:43 GMT -4
My understanding of this is that the IRS targeted super PACs on both sides of the political spectrum. Although most of them we're tea party groups. And while I believe there was some wrong-doing and people should be held accountable, we should keep in mind that these PACs started popping up all over the place after 2010 and some may not have been worthy of tax exempt status.
That being said, emails aren't stored on your hard drive. They're stored on servers, usually redundantly, to prevent loss. Even 3 to 5 years ago, most of us had access to work emails from our smartphones and home computers. So a single hard drive crash leading to the loss all your emails is very unlikely.
As far as Sonasoft goes: File storage and email backups are two different things. It's possible to purchase the file storage service without the email backup (because email backup isn't all that necessary).
I've heard the news mention that, tech support staff from the IRS, went before congress to explain what happened. Without knowing what was said, I can't be certain that I've been accurate here, but this is how it looks from my perspective.
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Post by KITransplant on Jun 23, 2014 12:10:25 GMT -4
All I know is that we've seen this act before (trying to destroy computers/eliminate emails) in the government, and it's led to criminal charges. If the Congress stays on top of this, someone is going to do some time.
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Post by cruzincat on Jun 23, 2014 16:59:26 GMT -4
While they did "Target" PACS on both sides, the numbers of targets were vastly different and those that were on the GOP side took way longer to get approved or disapproved. Justice delayed can be the same as Justice denied, if the approval comes after the election.
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Post by bluecrabber on Jun 24, 2014 8:31:13 GMT -4
As wyecomputers says, and I summarize: the IRS claim is utterly ridiculous.
But the Sheeple will continue grazing in La La land..
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