Ace:
I have had it.
Delaware state officials have told Congress that they likely destroyed the computer records that would show when and how often they accessed Christine O’Donnell’s personal tax records and acknowledged that a newspaper article was used as the sole justification for snooping into the former GOP Senate candidate’s tax history.
The revelations to Sen. Chuck Grassley’s office came Tuesday as the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration, the government’s chief watchdog for the Internal Revenue Service, formally reopened its investigation into the matter by re-interviewing Ms. O’Donnell.…
Mr. Grassley’s staff was told that a Delaware state investigator asked for and received permission from his boss on a Saturday to access Ms. O’Donnell’s tax records based on a local newspaper article about a civil lien. The lien, it turned, out was issued erroneously.
Unless they had a Computer Forensics Investigator purposely “destroy” the records, (Which is a criminal act in itself for said Investigator,) the evidence very well may still be there, hidden to the layman but recoverable by Computer Forensics. Even if they formatted the drive it may be possible to recover the files. If this computer is on a network, the file access evidence may be easily recoverable from the main server(s) and posibly server back-up drives. These computers should be immediately seized as criminal evidence.
The cover-up is worse than the crime. All those involved State workers who admit to knowing about the destruction of the evidence, should be arrested and charged with the appropriate cybercrimes, obstructing justice, willful destruction of evidence, willfully withholding evidence from a congressional investigation, and anything else they can think of.