IRS Has Lost More E-mails . . .
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And most of the lamestream media isn't even covering this...
Wall Street Journal: IRS scandal 'worse than Watergate'
http://washingtonexaminer.com/wall-street-journal-irs-scandal-worse-than-watergate/article/2549933
Wall Street Journal: IRS scandal 'worse than Watergate'
http://washingtonexaminer.com/wall-street-journal-irs-scandal-worse-than-watergate/article/2549933
She is an embarrassment to our country. Political leaders who lie so brazenly, no wonder our reputation is sinking.
Watch after 1:05 -- Stage 3 Alzheimer's
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Kim Strassel's wsj column reveals that the hard drive of Lois Lerner was wiped out ten days after the IRS got the letter from congress demanding to know about the targeting of conservative political groups.
It also reveals that the IRS did not say anything about these hard drives being wiped out until a year into the investigation when the IRS commissioner was about to be forced to certify that all evidence had been produced.
iow, they wiped the hard drives right after they learned they were going to be investigated and didn't tell congress until a year later when they were facing a deadline for disclosure.
http://www.cato.org/blog/kim-strassel-wsj-lost-irs-emails
put em in jail with the global warming swindlers.
It also reveals that the IRS did not say anything about these hard drives being wiped out until a year into the investigation when the IRS commissioner was about to be forced to certify that all evidence had been produced.
iow, they wiped the hard drives right after they learned they were going to be investigated and didn't tell congress until a year later when they were facing a deadline for disclosure.
http://www.cato.org/blog/kim-strassel-wsj-lost-irs-emails
put em in jail with the global warming swindlers.
IRS has contracted with outside company to back up emails since 2005:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/irs_contracted_with_email_archiving_company_in_2005.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/06/irs_contracted_with_email_archiving_company_in_2005.html
Yet another reason why we need a special prosecutor. Still, the libturds were arguing on the Sunday morning talk shows that there's nothing to see here.
Not necessarily. I have no idea how the IRS handles emails. But email programs can be set up to delete email from the server once it is opened by the recipient. It remains on the recipients computer until specifically deleted.
One would think, however, that the IRS would archive all emails and back them up for just such an occasion as the present.
Many if not all of the political organizations applying for pre-certification as social welfare agencies must have knowingly lied when they "guessed" at the percentage of their activities falling into certain categories. Only an imbecile would not recognize that these were not social welfare agencies. And those requesting pre-certification were certainly not imbeciles.
However it would be hard to prove perjury at the stage of precertification, but easy to prove at the filing stage if they intentionally lied about their actual income and expenditures. They probably had enough sense not to lie when filing, but by then they had already been granted status as a social welfare organizations and it would be much more difficult for the IRS to prosecute .
What does this tell you? It tells you that the mistake the IRS made was to pre-certify any of these organizations. They never should have got into the pre-certification business in the first place, and once they discovered the lies, they should have stopped the practice immediately. Instead they persisted for years in pre-certifying these obvious political organizations as social welfare agencies.
And if that's the case the IRS committed a criminal offense as they are required by law to save all correspondence.
http://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-010-003.html
1.10.3.2.3 (07-08-2011)
Emails as Possible Federal Records
1.All federal employees and federal contractors are required by law to preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency. Records must be properly stored and preserved, available for retrieval and subject to appropriate approved disposition schedules.
2.The Federal Records Act applies to email records just as it does to records you create using other media. Emails are records when they are:
â¢Created or received in the transaction of agency business
â¢Appropriate for preservation as evidence of the governmentâs function and activities, or
â¢Valuable because of the information they contain
3.If you create or receive email messages during the course of your daily work, you are responsible for ensuring that you manage them properly. The Treasury Departmentâs current email policy requires emails and attachments that meet the definition of a federal record be added to the organizationâs files by printing them (including the essential transmission data) and filing them with related paper records. If transmission and receipt data are not printed by the email system, annotate the paper copy. More information on IRS records management requirements is available at http://erc.web.irs.gov/Displayanswers/Question.asp?FolderID=4&CategoryID=5 or see the Records Management Handbook, IRM 1.15.1 http://publish.no.irs.gov/IRM/P01/PDF/31421A03.PDF).
4.An email determined to be a federal record may eventually be considered as having historical value by the National Archivist prior to disposal. Therefore, ensure that all your communications are professional in tone.
5.Please note that maintaining a copy of an email or its attachments within the IRS email MS Outlook application does not meet the requirements of maintaining an official record. Therefore, print and file email and its attachments if they are either permanent records or if they relate to a specific case.
1.10.3.2.4 (08-30-2012)
Emails are Subject to FOIA
1.The public is aware of the role emails play in agency internal operations and emails are included in a growing number of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Emails that are responsive to a FOIA request must be released unless the information contained in the email falls into one of nine very specific categories of exemptions. (See IRM 11.3.13 for more on FOIA processing). There is no category of exemption to protect the author or the Service from embarrassment.
2.Emails provided in response to a FOIA must include the addressee, date and time. The address list, date and time are considered part of the record for both FOIA and record management purposes.
3.Do not delete a message or attachment that is the subject of a congressional, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), or discovery request or that is needed for litigation.
1.10.3.2.4.1 (08-30-2012)
Emails may be subject to electronic discovery
1.Certain electronic records (like emails) may need to be identified and preserved when litigation is anticipated. In this case, you will be notified by your manager or Chief Counsel that relevant information must be preserved as part of the legal process. See Office of Chief Counsel Notice CC-2010-008, Complying with E-Discovery (http://mits.stg.web.irs.gov/ES/crsd...fying & Preserving ESI; dated May 4, 2010.pdf), for information on E-Discovery.