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irs targeting – It's A Tea Party Y'all http://itsateapartyyall.com God Bless America...and it's hard working citizens who are ready for their voice to be heard. Thu, 09 Jul 2015 22:40:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 More Hard Drive Drama From the IRS; Why Does Their Story Keep Changing? http://itsateapartyyall.com/more-hard-drive-drama-from-the-irs-why-does-their-story-keep-changing/ http://itsateapartyyall.com/more-hard-drive-drama-from-the-irs-why-does-their-story-keep-changing/#respond Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:51:01 +0000 http://itsateapartyyall.com/?p=661 The big question here is…why does this story keep changing?

It was revealed yesterday that Lois Lerner’s hard drive was “scratched” (whatever that is supposed to mean) and the data on it was still recoverable. But, that the IRS did not try to recover it, even though that was recommended by in-house IRS IT experts, who felt they should outsource the recovery project.

The IRS instead chose to “shred” (again, what that is supposed to mean), instead, according to a court filing the IRS made to House Ways and Means Committee investigators. They chose this even though they had already been informed that there was an investigation underway into Lerner? Seriously?

Investigators noted that it is unclear whether the scratch was deliberate or accidental.

“It is unbelievable that we cannot get a simple, straight answer from the IRS about this hard drive,” said Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI). “The Committee was told no data was recoverable and the physical drive was recycled and potentially shredded. To now learn that the hard drive was only scratched, yet the IRS refused to utilize outside experts to recover the data, raises more questions about potential criminal wrong doing at the IRS.”

So first they have the emails, then they don’t have the emails, then they might have the emails… back and forth and back and forth. Just more in a long line of questions about the IRS’ handling of these emails.

Why would they even THINK about destroying the hard drive when they knew Lerner was being looked into unless they (1) had something hide, (2) are completely incompetent as an agency, which is scary considering their role in the implementation of the health care law and their intrusion into our personal financial lives, or (3) both.

Can you even imagine if you went into an IRS audit with record keeping and excuses like this!

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The IRS Wants to Destroy What? More Hard Drives – You Have To Be Kidding Me! http://itsateapartyyall.com/the-irs-wants-to-destroy-what-more-hard-drives-you-have-to-be-kidding-me/ http://itsateapartyyall.com/the-irs-wants-to-destroy-what-more-hard-drives-you-have-to-be-kidding-me/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:54:46 +0000 http://itsateapartyyall.com/?p=654 IRS Destruction of Hard Drive Bids

The IRS notified contractors yesterday that it needs help in destroying at least another 3,200 hard drives.

The IRS states in the contract paperwork, “After all media are destroyed, they must not be capable of any reuse or information retrieval.”

The agency is expecting to need to have destroyed at least 65,464 magnetic tapes, 5,856 floppy disks, 708 reels, and 3,225 hard drives. The IRS has amassed half a million pieces of electronic storage media, some with personally identifiable taxpayer information. More than 375,000 pieces have already been destroyed. The rest await destruction.

“Due to system changes, a significant amount of electronic portable media containing [personally identifiable information] and potentially sensitive but unclassified data such as taxpayer return information is being collected at IRS facilities and locked in secure storage areas awaiting destruction,” a statement of work attached to the solicitation said.

What is actually a routine job, meant to protect sensitive taxpayer information, comes off as totally ironic and laughable in light of the IRS hard drive problems surrounding the targeting scandal that is currently under investigation.

In case you are interested, the contract paperwork can be found here.

Given the issues surrounding the missing and destroyed hard drives in this investigation, it makes one wonder why they don’t wait on destroying thousands more…just to be on the safe side, you think?

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IRS Changes Story on Lost Emails and Hard Drive Crashes http://itsateapartyyall.com/irs-changes-story-on-lost-emails-and-hard-drive-crashes/ http://itsateapartyyall.com/irs-changes-story-on-lost-emails-and-hard-drive-crashes/#respond Tue, 22 Jul 2014 14:40:26 +0000 http://itsateapartyyall.com/?p=635 Hard Drive

In a never ending battle of are there backups of emails or not, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrel Issa (R-CA) released the transcription of testimony taken last week which shows that the IRS may just be changing it’s story on whether Lois Lerner’s emails are lost or not.

During the transcribed interview, which occurred on Thursday, July 17, with IRS Deputy Associate Chief Counsel Thomas Kane, who supervises the IRS’s targeting scandal document production to Congress, testified that new information now makes him unsure whether email backup tapes containing the Lerner emails in question actually exist or not.

This does not match up with a memo that was sent on June 13, to Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) by the IRS, which said that the IRS “confirmed that back-up tapes from 2011 no longer exist because they have been recycled.”

According to the release of the testimony by Kane to a Committee investigator:

Investigator: You stated at the time that document was produced to Congress, the document, the white paper in Exhibit 3[the June 13 memo], that it was accurate to the best of your knowledge. Is it still accurate?

Kane: There is an issue as to whether or not there is a – that all of the backup recovery tapes were destroyed on the 6‑month retention schedule.

Investigator: So some of those backup tapes may still exist?

Kane: I don’t know whether they are or they aren’t, but it’s an issue that’s being looked at.

This is the same testimony where we learned that additional IRS employees had also suffered IRS crashes, as we reported yesterday.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has asked for the committee to end the criticism of Koskinen and ask no further questions. In a letter sent to Issa on Monday from Cummings, he objected to the decision to call IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to testify at a hearing on Wednesday, which would make it the third time Koskinen will have appeared before the committee in the past month.

Cummings has been at odds with the IRS investigation since the start, announcing within 30 days of the start of the investigation that it was all over and nothing more needed to be done, which of course was not true. He, himself, has been implicated in being a apart of the targeting scandal, with some accusing him of trying to shut the investigation down so that his role in the targeting would not come out.

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