{"id":54106,"date":"2014-07-23T07:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T11:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54106"},"modified":"2014-07-23T08:14:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T12:14:50","slug":"the-irs-is-looking-for-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54106","title":{"rendered":"This IRS Crap Just Keeps Getting “Better and Better”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it seems as if the IRS realizes it has a problem. And it released a solicitation recently \u2013 apparently this week – for contractor assistance in getting the problem fixed.<\/p>\n

No, it’s not for help in finding Lois Lerner’s missing email.<\/p>\n

The problem the IRS is seeking contractor assistance to solve? Destroying magnetic computer storage media and devices<\/em><\/span> \u2013 including \u201c. . . . at least 65,464 magnetic tapes<\/strong>, 3,225 hard drives<\/strong><\/em>, 5,856 floppy disks and 708 reels . . . .”<\/p>\n

Yeah, you read that correctly.\u00a0 The IRS wants a contractor to help them destroy magnetic tapes and hard drives<\/em>.\u00a0 Those are exactly<\/span> the kinds of storage media on which missing email relating to the current IRS scandal was located before the items holding those missing emails supposedly “crashed” or “were reused”.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not joking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, and it gets even better.\u00a0 Remember Lerner’s hard drive?\u00a0 The one that was supposedly “destroyed”, was “unrecoverable” – and took all her archived 2009-2011 email with it?<\/p>\n

Well, it appears that IRS IT experts have indicated to House Ways and Means Committee investigators that Lerner’s hard drive was found to be only scratched, not “destroyed”<\/a> – and that data from the device should have been recoverable<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n

House investigators found this out during recent conversations with IRS IT experts.\u00a0 The IRS initially refused to make these in-house experts available to the House Ways and Means Committee.<\/p>\n

The IRS also refused to use outside experts to attempt to recover data related to this matter.\u00a0 Use of an outside data recovery expert was something the IRS’s own IT staff recommended.<\/p>\n

Gee.\u00a0 Now, why wouldn’t the IRS want an outside expert in data recovery looking into the matter?\u00a0 It couldn’t be because that would be someone whose livelihood they didn’t control and might not be able to muzzle – could it?<\/p>\n

Don’t forget:\u00a0 IRS officials also initially told the House Ways and Means Committee, under oath, that the device was toast.\u00a0 They further said that data from said device was “unrecoverable”, and that the device had been “recycled”.<\/p>\n

But it also turns out that the agency isn’t sure precisely what happened to Lerner’s hard drive, either.\u00a0 And an internal memo has now come to light which appears to describe her computer as having been “recovered”.<\/p>\n

Hmm.\u00a0 That’s . . . interesting.<\/p>\n

This whole mess is now far past ridiculous and well into disgusting.\u00a0 “Transparent”?\u00a0 Well, if you mean that as a synonym for “obvious” – as in “transparent and shameless dissembling” – that certainly IMO looks like it’s the case here.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking it’s about time to subpoena a few folks from the IRS to testify before the House Ways and Means Committee, maybe some for the second or third time.\u00a0 And if and when they try to plead the fifth, the committee’s lead counsel should tell the first couple of them who do that the following:\u00a0 “Use immunity.\u00a0 Now spill – or you’re going to jail tonight for contempt instead of home.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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