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ready to fire back. three tea party leaders standing by for one hour investigation into the irs scandal. next week the house ways and means investigation. good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. thanks for having me on. >> and tonight, we have a letter that has just gone out to the chairman of the ways and means from the commissioner of the internal revenue service. it says they are going to get you emails by the end of next week. >> well, great, we heard that last month in may comm...

♪ >> i remember that music. i love our producers. we heard a tape self-destructing in five sect but e-mails at ther is over a span of two years? wait a minute. sources they the hard drive of lois lerner was destroyed. they want to see proof of that. regardless, they say theyre gone. forever gone. our cyberanalyst, morgan wright, is not buying this. >> your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to believe all six hard drives crashed conveniently at the same time. >> that is a very good --...

Have to delete the e-mail in your active file and then go on the server and delete that copy. that an intentional act. nobody does that. who does that. you do it when youre trying to eliminate something. >> explain this to me. i delete all my e-mails. i think theyre gone. theyre actually sitting in a server. big old box, right? someone then has to, who has authority over that box,g5,has to do whati did, and then some, right? so theres a chain of activity here. >> you as the user have to delete i...

tea partyers wanted some reputation -- representation and got that now. >> that was thought to be one of the messages of the eric cantor defeat last week, they needed an outsider, someone who was very conservative, loyal to the tea party, and that person turned out to be steve scalise. somewhere in thed the leap leadership ranks. steve scalise is the chair of the republican study committee that is the block of the biggest group of conservatives in the house of representatives, and its ...

Glitch doesnt get you off the hook. there are servers and cyber space. listen to morgan wright, a computer expert talks about how this will be a piece of cake to recover. listen. >> it look like they just use standard software techniques maybe got a hold of criminal investigative people but there are a lot of data recovery firms out there. this would have been a piece of cake to recover the data. >> one of the best data recovery is the federal bureau of investigation that can recover almost anyt...

they said we cant help you. nearly two years pass. and then, irs scandal breaks. its may, 2013. irs is now apologizing for the inappropriate targeting of conservative troops lois learner becomes the face of that scandal. requesting all communications sent or received by ms learner that would encompass the time of the deleted e mails, lost e mails. the committee repeatedly keeps asking, almost a year later may, 2014, lawmakers say irs finally agreed to turn over all e mails, but just ab...

Feasible? joining me now, morgan wright, a cyber security analyst. let me pose that question to you. in the year of 2014 when we all live in the world of technology, does that excuse even cut it? >> look, jimmy hoffa is hard to find, not lois lerners e-mails. no, it doesnt cut it. in fact there are three or four ways can you recover this information. the fact they said all of that information was contained on her laptop doesnt pass the sniff test. not with the millions of dollars that the govern...

adding security personnel. as the warship "uss mesa verde" heads to that region. how much closer are the fighters in getting to baghdad at this point? are they there? >> reporter: well, gretchen, iraqs leaders say that the military has stopped the advance of these insurgents and that they will hold baghdad. but there is very little in the way of evidence that backs that up. again today we are seeing militants push across iraq, now taking another city just outside mosul which is another...

Servers go down? what is the backup plan? disaster plan? continuity of operations? the fact that it has been down this long still waiting for parts to show up, i looked at this, something is terribly wrong when you can take all five servers down and waiting for parts to show up. i dont know if were still dealing with vacuum tubes and univac from 1947. this should not. even cia went to amazon web services and did cloud infrastructure so they did not have this kind of failure. it is tough. jenna: ...

Ipd-4, the internet addressing scheme because we ran out of addresses. were at ipd-6. were in the billions and trillions of addresses. it is growing and exploding faster. you cant throw enough people at this to solve the problem. jenna: if im a victim of a cybercrime, morgan, who should i turn to? do i call my local law enforcement? do i call the fbi? who is my best bet? >> start off with local law enforcement, the sad fact unless you meet a threshold at federal level they will not take the case...