Reason – by Peter SudermanThe Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it can’t provide emails sent between 2009 and 2011 that were requested by congressional investigators because of hard drive crashes.
The agency said that emails stored on dead drives were lost forever because its email backup tapes were recycled every six months, and employees were responsible for keeping their own long-term archives.
The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005,according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for “automatic data processing services.” Sonasoft’s motto is “email archiving done right,” and the companylists the IRS as a customer.
In 2009, Sonasoft even sent out a Tweet advertising its work for the IRS.
The exact details of the service that Sonasoft provided to the IRS aren’t clear. But the company advertises its email archiving solution as “ideal for small and medium businesses, government agencies, school districts, nonprofit organizations using Microsoft’s Exchange Server.” And a document posted on its website describing its services says that its system “archives all email content and so reduces the risk of non-compliance with legal, regulatory and other obligations to preserve critical business content.”
Sonasoft connection and IRS contract details first noted on Morgenr’s Twitter account.
http://reason.com/blog/2014/06/20/the-irs-had-a-contract-with-an-email-bac
“The information is out there all you have to do is let it in.”
Its at the ISP!!!!
The Internet Service Provider is where all e-mails go..so Hard drive is irrelevant
soon some one the government is after , will show that this is such a fake out, when the “perp” destroys their hard drive or computer and the Feds laugh saying we have it right here , all we have to do is subpoena Google or Yahoo etc..
“…email backup tapes were recycled every six months, and employees were responsible for keeping their own long-term archives.”
And who was responsible for hiring irresponsible employees in the first place?
What a load!
I’m sure Darryl Issa knows that the emails are located at the ISP, Google or Yahoo for the finding.
My question is why are we spending money on this (mock) trial in Congress? What Bill do they know is in the (pipeline) that they want to get passed as a result of this Lois Lerner trial (on display for the public). What are they telling us is coming? What are they actually trying to tell us?
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