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| For over a year and a half now, the House of Representatives has been investigating | |
| the IRS to see if they singled out Tea Party groups for political persecution. | |
| A large part of that investigation are incriminating emails that the IRS is now saying have disappeared. | |
| Is it credible that Lois Lerner and now six other IRS officials would lose all of their emails due to a computer disk crash? | |
| Now, some people might find that credible because that's happened to them with their personal computers, but we're not talking about personal computers. | |
| You found one? | |
| Did I? | |
| It looks like this one is deducting for medical payments covered by insurance. | |
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| The IRS has policies, procedures, and technology that you don't have on your personal computer. | |
| We're told that the electronic records weren't archived for very long, but the IRS's own record-keeping requirements for us treats electronic records the same as paper records, and requires that we keep records for three to seven years, indefinitely, if fraud is suspected. | |
| But IRS policy says that official e-mails are federal records, and they're required to be printed and stored separately and permanently. | |
| And the e-mails don't just reside on a hard disk. | |
| These e-mails pass through servers, and the IRS has a huge IT department to ensure that data is backed up and preserved. | |
| And reporter Cheryl Ackeson reports that an IRS official told her that e-mail is backed up with something called a RAID. | |
| Arrayed is a redundant array of independent disks. | |
| In other words, two physical hard drives are put together in one enclosure. | |
| Information written to one is also written to another. | |
| Now, what that means is that although a single hard drive might have a mean time between failure of five years That would give you a probability of about 1 in 78,000 that this would fail. | |
| When you put them together in a RAID configuration that's mirrored for security, you wind up with a mean time between failure of 500 years. | |
| You wind up with a probability of about 1 in 8 billion billions. | |
| In other words, it's not credible, even if they weren't mirrored, that all seven of these would fail and lose the most critical time period that they're looking for. | |
| I say the IRS officials need to be held to the same standard that they hold the rest of America to. | |
| For example, they should be guilty until they can prove that they're innocent. | |
| They should be required to retain data for seven years, just as we are, with no limit for criminal activity. | |
| Lawless learners should be compelled to self-incrimination, just as we are. | |
| And we should shut them down financially. | |
| Not just cutting their budget by 15%. | |
| The emails in question relate to Lois Lerner and other IRS officials conspiring to punish political opponents with criminal charges. | |
| But there's also a criminal conspiracy to cover up illegal activity. | |
| And as an IRS official has pointed out, laws have been broken during an alleged cover-up that are much easier to prove than the original act. | |
| Some poor IT schmuck, if you get him under oath, will fold like a cheap suit. | |
| If you remember back to Watergate, the articles of impeachment didn't come after Richard Nixon for breaking into an office. | |
| It came after him for covering up information about those who did, and for using the IRS against political enemies. | |
| Now, if the House Republicans don't prosecute, they are implicit in this criminal conspiracy | |
| to cover up. | |
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