believes it. well, a a new twist. and it is a fascinating one in the irs targeting scandal. two years of lois lerner s emails disappear. poof. the irs telling congressional investigators that the emails were lost in the computer crash. but house oversight committee chair darrell issa says emails don t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention chairman issa joins us. nice to see you, sir. i think the american public gets it when a disk drive quote crashes. the data is still there. and competent authorities can recover virtually, if not all of that data. it s clear that this disk drive went to the bone yard at a convenient time with convenient information. are you saying that it could still be recovered or are you saying that the they intentionally offloaded it so that it can t be? the federal records act requires that this data be retained. all right. so, did they retain it or did they offload it? when they destroyed recycled or destroyed the
believes it. well, a a new twist. and it is a fascinating one in the irs targeting scandal. two years of lois lerner s emails disappear. poof. the irs telling congressional investigators that the emails were lost in the computer crash. but house oversight committee chair darrell issa says emails don t just disappear without a trace unless that was the intention chairman issa joins us. nice to see you, sir. i think the american public gets it when a disk drive quote crashes. the data is still there. and competent authorities can recover virtually, if not all of that data. it s clear that this disk drive went to the bone yard at a convenient time with convenient information. are you saying that it could still be recovered or are you saying that the they intentionally offloaded it so that it can t be? the federal records act requires that this data be retained. all right. so, did they retain it or did they offload it? when they destroyed recycled or destroyed the
and what about the people who sent and received e-mails. there is another side of people who have their own records. and when the irs realized something might be a miss in this computer crash. come on? this is an organization, you have to give most sensitive information and income and losses, and you have to send it to the irs every year or quarter. and if this organization to say we just lost. it what does that do for faith in government? it is horrible for faith in government. what if i was audited and all of the sudden, i don t have those documents. i am so sorry. i don t think that the government would be okay with that. we shouldn t either. and other than the medical information. tax data and most sensitive information that americans can
penalty. and later today defense attorneys are expected to file a motion asking that the trial be moved out of boston. we ll keep you posted. ucrepe and russia working on a sos fire after leaders of the two countries spoke about the process. ukraine will require rebels to lay down arms and allows nonvilen fighters to go to russia. new questions about the irs raised in congress. the tax aemgs admits to losing more e-mails. just days after telling the house committee that two years wort e-mails of lois lerner lost in a computer crash. lawyers calling on the justice department to investigate. this is something that eric holder declined to do. but today law makers on both
conservative groups are being targeted. the administration s excuse according to josh earnest, hey, you ever hear of a computer crash? i think he forgot dude. tech expert david kennedy is skeptical. in today s society, it s extremely unlikely for those data losses to occur. you are talking about a major period from 2009 to 2011 where all of this is happening. that s a really big deal if they don t have any documentation on how they tried to recover the information there. remember in march when john costinen said this. are you going to provide all of lois lerner s email. yes, we will do that. not so fast. fox learned earlier today the irs knew it didn t have all the emails connected to lois lerner as far back as february. their latest spin is an insult