writers and processing the rest of mrs. lerner s emails for production. as we reviewed additional emails, the irs review team learned additional facts regarding ms. lerner s computer crash in mid 2011, which occurred long before these congressional investigations opened or when the review began. during this review, we learned that as noted in 2011, the irs information technology division had tried using multiple processes at ms. lerner s request. to recover the information stored on her computer s hard drive. a series of emails available after all of ms. lerner s email was loaded this spring recounts the sequence of events in 2011. front line mcmanager and it reported on july 20th, 2011, and i quote, i checked with the technician and he still has your drive. he wanted to exhaust all avenues to recover the data before sending it to the hard drive cemetery. unfortunately, after receiving assistance from several highly skilled technicians, including hp experts, he still cannot
exchange server that is supposed to be backed up and data is on there so if your computer crashes, you still have your emails and everything you would have normally h the fact that they lost the exchange servers, the back up tapes and actual hard drives themselves and six other people impacted guy is 9 ong for sure. how do you lose all the emails on the exchange server. if my computer breaks or crashes. how does the exchange server lose all those emails? that s the thing, it doesn t. what has to happen is that they weren t actually backing up things appropriately. that s the first thing that you test in an environment, especially information technology, you make sure that the backup is working and make sure you can recover the data. if it s not working, you make steps to make sure it doesn t happen again. in today s technology and even in 2009 to 2011, this is a proven practice, this is a proven technology. this is something that everybody knows to do in every single it organizatio
computer crash and a glitch. i mean this is madness. if lou dobbs doesn t have a restaurant receipt you are in trouble. i have it. when does this catch up? i believe only when there is an appointment when there is a select committee to go after the corrupt internal revenue leadership. it has been politicized and there is divide within the government now. what do you mean by that? there are within each one of the bury a citizen could rely on and trust the government no
we saw a lot of fireworks on friday before the house ways and means committee. we expect even more tonight in front of the house oversight committee, we do expect koskinen to come out. looking into what happened to lois lerner s emay that the treasury inspector general, the independent body is also investigating. if you don t take does kinnen s word for it. he will tell lawmakers there is somebody else investigating, somebody else who can can get to the bottom of the computer crash and whatever happened to lois lerner s enile outside agencies and outside organizations. but we do expect a lot of tough stuff and this is also the committee where tempers have flared between republicans and democrats. so that will be something to watch for as lawmakers try to get to the bottom of this email situation more than two years of emails for the woman at the center of this investigation go missing and a lot of lawmakers are saying that doesn t feel like coincidence but they will ask mr. koskinen fo
a top white house lawyer and archivist from the national archives, they were grilled up on capitol hill today about the controversial missing irs e-mails. the second day of heated exchanges from representative darrell issa and his committee. demanding answers on how the tax agency could have lost thousands of e-mails on information that they had targeted certain groups like the tea party. the congressman asked if the irs broke the law by not reporting the alleged computer crash. is it fair to say the irs broke the federal records act? they re required any agency is required to notify us when they realize they have a problem that could be destruction or disposal, unauthorized but they didn t do that?