Days after IRS officials said in a sworn statement that former top agency employee Lois G. Lerner’s computer memory had been wiped clean, the agency put out word to contractors Monday that it needs help to destroy at least another 3,200 hard drives.
The Internal Revenue Service solicitation for “media destruction” services reflects an otherwise routine job to protect sensitive taxpayer information, but it was made while the agency’s record destruction practices remain under a sharp congressional spotlight.
Congressional investigators of the IRS targeting of conservative groups have been hampered by the unexplained destruction of emails and other records of Ms. Lerner, the former head of the IRS tax-exempt division and a central figure in the scandal.
The loss of Ms. Lerner’s hard drive also raised broader questions about why the tax agency never reported the missing records to the National Archives and Records Administration, as required by the Federal Records Act.
While those questions remained unresolved, IRS officials signaled plans to destroy tens of thousands of additional electronic records.
“After all media are destroyed, they must not be capable of any reuse or information retrieval,” IRS officials stated in the contract papers.
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“Days after IRS officials said in a sworn statement that former top agency employee Lois G. Lerner’s computer memory had been wiped clean….”
They mean it was SCRATCHED!
One little point:
Hard drives don’t get scratched by themselves.
There’s nothing in there near them to ever scratch them.
You have to take then out and scratch them manually.
Then, to choose to shred hers even though it could have given up its data is highly suspicious.
Koskinen ”testifies” again today.
I wonder how he’ll spin this little doozey.
If the information was recoverable (one would assume she had other data on her computer besides emails directing illegal targeting of opponents of socialism), why WASN’T it recovered and transferred to her new hard drive?
This does not take the resurrection of Sherlock Holmes to see what has been going on here. Duh.
This is a “dog ate my homework” argument after one has inserted said homework into raw hamburger meat and handed it to their dog. There is no possible way for them to have “discovered” that the hard drive was “scratched” without someone pulling it from the computer and removing the cover. (Once the cover were open it would be simple to take a screw driver to the drive platters.) There are required protocols in government maintenance shops that require the names of everyone involved, every step of the way to be on the maintenance documents. Subpoena those records and get those person’s butts into the investigative committee’s chamber.