Special Reports & Tweets - 20140620_SpecialReport_Alex Aired: 2014-06-20 Duration: 04:20 === Credible Email Loss? (03:45) === [00:00:00] For over a year and a half now, the House of Representatives has been investigating [00:00:14] the IRS to see if they singled out Tea Party groups for political persecution. [00:00:19] A large part of that investigation are incriminating emails that the IRS is now saying have disappeared. [00:00:26] Is it credible that Lois Lerner and now six other IRS officials would lose all of their emails due to a computer disk crash? [00:00:34] 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. [00:00:43] You found one? [00:00:44] Did I? [00:00:45] It looks like this one is deducting for medical payments covered by insurance. [00:00:48] This, we suspect, is how a great many people think of ADP. [00:00:54] Automatic Data Processing. [00:00:56] The newest tax tool of the Internal Revenue Service and a new dimension in tax administration. [00:01:04] The IRS has policies, procedures, and technology that you don't have on your personal computer. [00:01:10] 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. [00:01:27] But IRS policy says that official e-mails are federal records, and they're required to be printed and stored separately and permanently. [00:01:37] And the e-mails don't just reside on a hard disk. [00:01:40] These e-mails pass through servers, and the IRS has a huge IT department to ensure that data is backed up and preserved. [00:01:49] And reporter Cheryl Ackeson reports that an IRS official told her that e-mail is backed up with something called a RAID. [00:01:57] Arrayed is a redundant array of independent disks. [00:02:00] In other words, two physical hard drives are put together in one enclosure. [00:02:05] Information written to one is also written to another. [00:02:08] 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. [00:02:20] 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. [00:02:28] You wind up with a probability of about 1 in 8 billion billions. [00:02:35] 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. [00:02:43] I say the IRS officials need to be held to the same standard that they hold the rest of America to. [00:02:48] For example, they should be guilty until they can prove that they're innocent. [00:02:53] They should be required to retain data for seven years, just as we are, with no limit for criminal activity. [00:03:00] Lawless learners should be compelled to self-incrimination, just as we are. [00:03:05] And we should shut them down financially. [00:03:08] Not just cutting their budget by 15%. [00:03:10] The emails in question relate to Lois Lerner and other IRS officials conspiring to punish political opponents with criminal charges. [00:03:21] But there's also a criminal conspiracy to cover up illegal activity. [00:03:25] 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. === Covering Up Crimes (00:49) === [00:03:34] Some poor IT schmuck, if you get him under oath, will fold like a cheap suit. [00:03:39] If you remember back to Watergate, the articles of impeachment didn't come after Richard Nixon for breaking into an office. [00:03:45] It came after him for covering up information about those who did, and for using the IRS against political enemies. [00:03:53] Now, if the House Republicans don't prosecute, they are implicit in this criminal conspiracy [00:03:59] to cover up. [00:04:08] You've experienced and heard about the benefits of super male vitality. [00:04:13] Now, the new formula has arrived. [00:04:16] Introducing the new Super Female Vitality.