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Tuesday, July 22, 2014

The IRS Scandal, Day 439

What Are The Chances? (An IRS Love Song):

(Hat Tip: Glenn Reynolds.)

Wall Street Journal, New Information Deepens the Mystery of the Missing IRS Emails:

The mystery of the missing IRS emails has deepened.

An IRS official told congressional investigators in an interview last week that — despite what agency leaders thought previously — some of the missing IRS emails might still exist on backup tapes.

Those tapes were thought to have been recycled several years ago, destroying the data.

Washington Post:  6 Questions About the IRS’s Missing Emails, From IT Experts:

Did the IRS intentionally lose e-mails to cover up potentially incriminating communications relating to the agency’s targeting controversy, or did the records go missing because of bad technology management?

As for the latter question, few organizations are in a better position to make an assessment of the situation than the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers, which deals with these types of issues on a regular basis.

The group, which runs the only worldwide certification program for IT asset managers, released six questions on Monday that it thinks lawmakers and federal investigators should ask about the missing e-mails of former IRS official Lois Lerner, a central figure in the targeting affair.

  1. What happened to the IRS’s IT asset managers who appear to have disappeared at a key juncture?
  2. Where is the documentation to prove that the IRS wiped or destroyed Lois Lerner’s hard drive?
  3. Were the drives destroyed by an outside vendor or firm? If so, by who, and can they verify the destruction?
  4. What are the IRS’s specific policies and procedures on document retention when hard drives are damaged or destroyed?
  5. What is the IRS’s disaster-recovery policy?
  6. Where are Lois Lerner’s Blackberry e-mails?

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Comments

Questions 2, 3, and 4 were answered on Friday.

Posted by: Publius Novus | Jul 22, 2014 6:22:05 AM