After placing the investigation on hold due to software issues, Treasury deputy inspector general Timothy Camus stated, “There is potential criminal activity.” He continued, “the facts as we understand them can and have changed on a daily basis.”
The first narrative from the IRS was that the drive was irreversably damaged before being destroyed in 2011…however, this wasn’t the case. It was only ‘scratched’.
An error of the IT specialist(s) investigating the drives.
But last year, investigators with the House Ways and Means Committee interviewed technical experts at the IRS who said that the hard drive was merely scratched and not irreparable.
“The Committee was told no data was recoverable and the physical drive was recycled and potentially shredded,” then-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp said just days after Manning’s July 18 affidavit was filed.
“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,” Camp continued.
Source: dailycaller.com
So far hundreds of back up tapes have been discovered containing over 30,000 Lerner emails. And, according to Fox News, investigators said the IRS had not even asked computer technicians for the back up tapes, even though a subpoena directed to do so.
“It looks like we’ve been lied to, or at least misled,” said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla. stated.
Perjury has been committed.
The IRS should look into hiring entertainers…maybe it would improve their song and dance.
“According to the Specialist, prior to joining the Internal Revenue Service, from 2004 to 2005, formal Microsoft training was completed through Lions World Services for the Blind, a certified Microsoft training and testing center,” Manning stated.
The employee, who was hired by the agency in 2007 and has been promoted three times, began working on Lerner’s hard drive on June 13, 2011, according to the affidavit.
According to the IRS’s website, the agency has had a partnership with Lions World Services for the Blind — which now goes by the name World Services for the Blind — since 1967.
“The IRS and LWSB provide training programs for various entry level positions. From Collection Representative positions to Computer Programmers. This relationship has resulted in over 1000 persons with disabilities being employed by the IRS. In 2003 forty-six outstanding candidates were trained by Lions World for placement in IRS positions,” reads the agency’s website.
After an unsuccessful attempt to preserve or recover data on Lerner’s hard drive, it was removed and her laptop was replaced with a new one, Manning stated.
The computer was sent back to Lerner and the hard drive was sent to a forensics lab. When the lab could not find any information on the hard drive, it was sent back to the user and network branch. It was then “degaussed,” or wiped clean with a magnet, Manning stated.
IRS officials initially claimed that Lerner’s hard drive was irreparably damaged before it was destroyed in 2011.
But last year, investigators with the House Ways and Means Committeeinterviewed technical experts at the IRS who said that the hard drive was merely scratched and not irreparable.
“The Committee was told no data was recoverable and the physical drive was recycled and potentially shredded,” then-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp said just days after Manning’s July 18 affidavit was filed.
“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,” Camp continued.
Ways and Means’ press release also states that the experts’ claims conflict with a “a July 18, 2014, court filing by the Agency, which stated the data on the hard drive was unrecoverable – including multiple years’ worth of missing emails.”
Manning did not return The Daily Caller’s request for comment.
send her ass to jail for perjury…then charge her with the other stuff