◼ And all of them, apparently, were lost in computer crashes. That’s novel. Normally, when an agency doesn’t want to comply with a document request, it simply lies by claiming that no such document exists. - HotAir
Show of hands: When was the last time your computer crashed so hard that important data — e-mails, specifically — were lost and couldn’t be retrieved? I’ve used PCs and Macs every day for the past eight years, for 12 hours a day or more during weekdays, and I can’t remember experiencing something like that. It’s an “Internet 2001″ problem, not “Internet 2011,” especially given how cheap and ubiquitous back-up drives are today — and yet it happened to the IRS, apparently, no fewer than seven times, as recently as three years ago. And by the way, why are IRS e-mails being saved locally to employees’ hard drives instead of to a central server, a la e-mail programs like Gmail? The agency is required by statute to preserve records; the easiest way to do that for e-mail would be to store everything in a central cloud. Why doesn’t the IRS do that?
◼ They Lost Email from Six Other IRS Employees…All Implicated in Targeting Scandal - GraniteGrok
◼ Darrell Issa subpoenas IRS commissioner over lost Lois Lerner emails - Susan Ferrechio/Washington Examiner
◼ CLETA MITCHELL TO THE IRS: ANSWER THIS - Powerline
◼ Lois Lerner’s Lost Emails: Questions for the IRS - Sharyl Attkisson
◼ Attkisson On Missing IRS Documents: If The Emails Really Are Lost, ‘That’s Quite A Story In Itself’ - CBS Philly
Attkisson: This doesn't happen.
