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2014-07-24 Home Front: Politix
IRS Experts: Lois Lerner hard drive was just 'scratched' - Not Damaged Beyond Recovery
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Posted by junkiron 2014-07-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

#1 This train is going to stop at the Oval Office. It's just a matter of time. I have a sense none of these IRS people have any desire to go to jail in order to protect the Champ.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-24 05:03||   2014-07-24 05:03|| Front Page Top

#2 How do you say Pollyanna in Afrikaans?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-24 05:04||   2014-07-24 05:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Sy is nie 'n 'Pollyanna' nie, sy is waar stom.
[not a Pollyanna, just quite dull]
Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-24 05:33||   2014-07-24 05:33|| Front Page Top

#4 :-)
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-24 05:36||   2014-07-24 05:36|| Front Page Top

#5 First rule of government service :"It's never too early to start covering your a$$." It's why they love paperwork; it's like a big blanket to hide under.
Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-24 07:58||   2014-07-24 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 So,If they don't HAVE the hard drive, how do they know.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2014-07-24 11:12||   2014-07-24 11:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Conventionally, "recovered" means her drive was replaced with a new one with cloned copies of Windows and the standard set of applications she used, and then her User Data directory was restored from central backup. This would limit the loss to a day or a week.

Her emails were stored on the central server.

The problem is, her inbox was limited (on the server) to 250 MB, a tiny amount these days. I would expect she had processed over 5GB of email in the last few years.

If she was just erasing old email (on the server), then it's gone, because the IRS was not keeping backups older than six months, so after it had been erased for six months, the backup would be overwritten. This would not comply with records retention policy, but I suppose she could easily survive the slaps with the wet noodle.

If she was moving copies of old email to her local hard drive (which is not that easy to do in an IMAP setup), then the question is why were these not restored when her computer was recovered. Is there no central backup of User Data at the IRS? Or were the emails in question manually erased from her User Data, either before or after the HD crash, and the failed drive is just a red herring?

Beyond all that, there is the requirement to preserve email, which can be, and is, complied with by printing out email or storing it on some permanent medium, like a DVD.
Posted by KBK 2014-07-24 12:34||   2014-07-24 12:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Hey, Congress, you'd better not slack up:
Please help the tax man set a rack up
And donate some hardware
And audit her software
And burn Lois Lerner's big back-up!
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-07-24 13:19||   2014-07-24 13:19|| Front Page Top

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