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originally posted by: xuenchen
originally posted by: mattsawaufo
a reply to: pianopraze
Maybe they don't want to reveal all the dirt they have on the tea party too. Republicans wouldn't just sit by and let innocent republicans get blacklisted by the government. What kinda group names themself after a terrorist act like the boston tea party? You don't hear about groups called "smallpox blanket democrats".
Valid point.
But what "Dirt" would that be?
The IRS already exposed all they had.
Congressional investigators made another call for the appointment of an IRS scandal special prosecutor after discovering that key lawyers for the scandal-plagued agency have a “conflict of interest” in the case.
Department of Justice tax division attorney Andrew Strelka, who represented the IRS in litigation related to the scandal, worked under Lerner at the IRS Exempt Organizations division from 2008 to 2010. While at the agency, Strelka was part of the IRS’ conservative targeting scheme, according to documents obtained by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform[
DOJ Lawyers Have ‘Conflict of Interest’ In IRS Case
originally posted by: Bilk22
We've read here many times that dates on servers can be manipulated. So I guess fake emails can be presented too as "Hey we told you there's nothing to see here." I doubt rewriting emails and dating them appropriately isn't all that difficult to do, but maybe a forensics specialist can try to match them to recipient emails if they haven't messed with them as well.
originally posted by: xuenchen
The vise is clamping tighter and tighter.
People see the complete scandal and corruption.
Does this mean Lois Lerner is no longer the 5th Baroness of Shillington ?
The official said DOJ lawyers were only referring to tapes backing up IRS emails that were routinely recycled twice a year before 2013, when the investigation into the Tea Party controversy began.
The IRS has acknowledged those procedures were in place since it told lawmakers in June that Lerner’s computer crashed in 2011, leaving the agency unable to recover many of her emails over a two-year span.
John Koskinen, the IRS commissioner, has testified before Congress several times over the last two months that the tapes backing up Lerner’s emails were recycled.
“There is no newly divulged back-up system that was not previously known about,” the official said. “Government lawyers were simply referring to the back-up system at the IRS that Commissioner Koskinen had already disclosed.”
originally posted by: loam
Of course it was a big lie.
No one in IT, or frankly anyone with government agency experience, ever believed these emails were lost.
The fact they worked so hard not to disclose them makes them all the more important.
The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivan’s court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerner’s Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerner’s hard drive.
IRS Shocker: Filing Reveals Lerner Blackberry Destroyed
originally posted by: macman
a reply to: pianopraze
WOW. So many here, with leaning to the Right or Libertarian have been proven correct in stating that the emails would still be backed up????
Say ain't so. I can't believe it.
Where are all the Progressives??? The same ones telling many of us ATS'ers that are currently in IT and have dealt with the Govt systems....
originally posted by: Bassago
a reply to: pianopraze
This just keeps getting better and better. Now it also appears that in a mad dash to destroy any evidence Lois Lerner's BlackBerry was put to death.. er, destroyed.
The IRS filing in federal Judge Emmet Sullivan’s court reveals shocking new information. The IRS destroyed Lerner’s Blackberry AFTER it knew her computer had crashed and after a Congressional inquiry was well underway. As an IRS official declared under the penalty of perjury, the destroyed Blackberry would have contained the same emails (both sent and received) as Lois Lerner’s hard drive.
IRS Shocker: Filing Reveals Lerner Blackberry Destroyed
Gotta tie up all those loose ends and incriminating details. They are total criminals.
originally posted by: Vaedur
a reply to: Bilk22
It wouldn't be that easy, and easily detectable. IF you start messing with a clock on a system, exscecially exchange 2010, you are going to have it stop connecting to a domain controller and the datastore won't come online. It's pretty easy through a chain of backups to see if they are real or not. Which mostlikely they are real.