IRS rules required Lois Lerner to keep paper copies of all her “lost” emails
Yesterday, in typical Friday news dump fashion, the IRS informed the Congress that all of Lois Lerner’s inter-agency emails were accidentally deleted when the agency’s computer crashed.
Even if we give the corrupt agency the benefit of the doubt it is not believable that none of the lost files and emails were backed up and could not be recovered. I can guarantee you this; if the IRS computers which crashed had held the personal information of taxpayers you can bet your ass the IRS would be able to recover that information.
But even if we take yet another leap of faith and once again give the IRS the benefit of the doubt and none of these emails were backed up electronically there is still a nagging little problem for the IRS according to this story.
IRS rules require all employees to print out all emails and keep them on file as hard copies.
The IRS maintains an Internal Revenue Manual, and chapter 10, section 3 of that manual deals with standards for using email. Those standards, which apply to “all IRS employees,” make it clear that paper copies of all emails must be maintained.
Section 3 states that, “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.”
“If you create or receive email messages during the course of your daily work, you are responsible for ensuring that you manage them properly,” it adds. “The Treasury Department’s current email policy requires emails and attachments that meet the definition of a federal record be added to the organization’s files by printing them (including the essential transmission data) and filing them with related paper records.”
So even if the actual emails no longer exist there should still be a paper copy on record which could and should be turned over to the Congress. If these paper copies do not exist it can mean only two things; either Lois Lerner did not create paper copies or somebody threw them away. Either way somebody is in violation of the law…..
Here is a little more food for thought: if these emails which were supposedly lost by the IRS were between agencies does that not mean these other agencies (and the White House for that matter) should have a copy of all these emails on their own files? Just saying…..
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If true, and hard copies were not kept, someone at IRS would have to be held criminally responsible, no?
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I would thing so, but I think we know how that will go…..
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Not possible to *not* have copies of those emails. working in this industry for 40 years now, and especially working in large data centers, i can assure you that the IRS data is backed up. Not on the PC’s however. The fact that the IRS is stating they can’t recover because her “PC” crashed, has nothing to do with the servers that sent those emails. I don’t know if they’re referencing the “private” emails used by many politicians, or the email servers that the government owns, those emails are available. Every data center has what’s known as DR. Disaster recovery. Typically it’s a second data center where all things are backed up at. ALL data centers have them. The servers where the emails are actually kept (even if you delete your emails from your PC, the server still has them), and as well they *are* backed up daily. And to date, with the technology we have today (just ask all the pedophiles currently in prison), virtually any hard drive that isn’t physically destroyed can be recovered. Most people aren’t aware that the emails on their own PC’s are just copies of what’s on the server that sent them. But the dumbed down public isn’t aware of this, so it’s easy for the government to say my electronic dog ate them….Not only do these emails exist, there is probably at least 2 separate locations that have them… The company I work for processes the online tax filings And I can tell you we have multiple ways of retrieving the data if needed.. *required* by the government.
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Thanks for that info, there is no doubt in my mind they could recover these emails if they wanted to. They just don’t want to…..
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You know it has gotten so “in your face” unbelievable with this bunch of liars, where would we even start? They are daring anyone to prove them wrong and apparently we need to do some house cleaning to find that person. We do not seem to have any adults that will hold anyone responsible for their actions, so we might as well just enjoy what time we have left in what used to be the greatest nation on earth!
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They sure are brazen at this point Lou and who can blame them, after all for all of the bluster coming from the GOP they have yet to do a damn thing about it.
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It would appear to be safe to assume this is going nowhere… anarchy, anarchy, anarchy.
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Sadly you are right about that!
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Reblogged this on Taking Back America.
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Thank you.
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