John Koskinen admits the IRS had six months of Lois Lerner’s emails backed up

  Putting aside, once again, the fallacy that all of Lois Lerner’s emails were on her crashed hard drive and not stored in servers; even if this is true it turns out the IRS did indeed have six months worth of backed up emails but apparently made no attempt to retrieve them.

  This was admitted during sworn testimony by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen:

Koskinen: Yes, it’s actually a disaster recovery system and it backs up for six months in case the entire system goes down.

C: And that was in place in 2011?

K: That was the rule in 2011. Policy.

C: So when Lois Lerner figured out on June 13^th that her computer crashed, and there have been emails showing that she was going to great lengths to try to get that recovered, why didn’t they just go to that six month tape?

K: Because that six month tape is a disaster recovery tape that has all of the emails on it and is a very complicated tape to actually extract emails for, but I have not seen any emails to explain why they didn’t do it, so it would be difficult, but I don’t know why.

  When pressed further this is what he had to say:

All I know about that is that the backup tapes are disaster recovery tapes that put everything in one lump and extracting individual emails out of that is very costly and difficult. And that was not the policy at the time.

  Costly? Really? Since when is the Federal government worried about spending money? Unless he means politically costly and not monetarily.