IT Pros Expose Arrogant IRS Lie

Jun
15
2014

If ever a dog would not hunt, it is the following insolent and preposterous claim by the IRS:

The Internal Revenue Service told Congress Friday it has lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner, a central figure in the agency’s Tea Party controversy, sparking outrage from congressional investigators who have been probing the agency for more than a year.

The IRS said it cannot locate many of Lerner’s emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year.

Lerner headed the IRS division that processed applications for tax-exempt status. The IRS acknowledged last year that agents had improperly scrutinized applications for tax-exempt status by Tea Party and other conservative groups.

That is, the IRS acknowledged that it helped Obama betray the public trust by using federal taxation as a weapon to cripple his political opponents. But that acknowledgment is all we are likely to get out of them.

As excuses go, this one lags behind “the dog ate my homework” in terms of believability.

“Today’s admission by the IRS that they cannot produce Lois Lerner’s emails is an outrageous impediment to our investigation,” Hatch said in a statement. “Even more egregious is the fact we are learning about this a full year after our initial request to provide the Committee with any and all documents relating to our investigation.”

Obviously, if the emails were really lost, the IRS would have said so long ago. But of course they were not lost. IT veteran Norman Cillo provides six ways we know the IRS is lying:

• Their email servers almost certainly have built-in exchange mail database redundancy.
• Bad disks are easy to replace.
• All servers use RAID technology, which means they would have to lose more than a single disk to lose the data.
• The server crashing would not destroy the data.
• All email servers in professional organizations use TAPE backups, from which data could be restored.
• Even if Lois Lerner’s PC were vaporized, the emails would still be on the server.

Via iOwnTheWorld.com, IT pros called in to Mark Levin’s radio show, further confirming that the IRS is lying:



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Quote: Cincinnatus wrote in post #3

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This is quite true: "And, at this point, he doesn't care if we know it!'

Obama & Co have already gotten away with a great deal of unlawful behavior so why should he and his minions worry about it now? This "lost emails" story is blatantly ridiculous. They know it and the Republicans know it. Now what, if anything, can or will be done?

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