{"id":51687,"date":"2014-06-19T08:32:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51687"},"modified":"2014-06-19T10:24:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T14:24:34","slug":"51687","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51687","title":{"rendered":"Lerner\u2019s IRS Hard Drive?  Oop-So."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Lois Lerner, of <a href=\"..\/?p=50909\">IRS-targets-conservative-groups scandal and 28 months of missing IRS email fame<\/a>? Along with the <a href=\"..\/?p=51437\">other six IRS employees involved in same scandal whose email also appears to be missing<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the IRS yesterday indicated that recovery of any of those emails, even using forensic techniques, is likely impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Why, you ask? Per Senator Orrin Hatch, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2014\/06\/irs-lois-lerner-emails-108044.html\">according to the IRS Lerner\u2019s hard drive has been \u201cthrown away\u201d<\/a>. Other sources say the drives have been \u201crecycled\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably the other six individual with missing email also lost theirs for the same reason (e.g., due to a \u201clocal machine computer crash\u201d) &#8211; though to my knowledge the specific reason the other individuals&#8217; email was lost has never been explicitly identified. If that&#8217;s the case, the same is doubtless true about their hard drives as well.<\/p>\n<p>In the IT world, \u201crecycling\u201d a hard drive can mean anything from running a bad-sector lockout program to find\/mark as unusable bad sectors\/reformatting the device\/reusing the device to \u201cdisposed of to a third party and either repaired\/resold\u201d to \u201csold for scrap and destroyed\u201d. Here, I&#8217;m guessing the latter was what happened.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, simply locating the device now may be effectively impossible \u2013 never mind recovering any data that might remain from 3 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>This just gets more and more . . . oh so \u201cconvenient\u201d for those involved in the scandal with each passing day. And that\u2019s especially \u201cconvenient\u201d for those who might be involved, but who aren\u2019t yet publicly known \u2013 and desperately wish to remain hidden.<\/p>\n<p>Transparent? Yeah. Just as transparent as the proverbial stonewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Lois Lerner, of IRS-targets-conservative-groups scandal and 28 months of missing IRS email fame? Along with &hellip; <a title=\"Lerner\u2019s IRS Hard Drive?  Oop-So.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51687\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lerner\u2019s IRS Hard Drive?  Oop-So.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}