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  • Posted by RevJay4 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Phew, now I know there is someone else who's looking down the road. And, I'm not completely over the edge in my thinking.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 11 years ago
    Of course. That information is now on a need-to-know basis. And we don't.
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  • Posted by RevJay4 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Good point. This is obviously the attitude of the alphabet agencies of this administration.
    Moving ever closer to the tyrannical model of government. As the pressure builds on the administration to produce evidence which will prove malfeasance, I fear Martial Law will be declared and then the fight will be on to keep our nation and the Constitution.
    Maybe, its just me.
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  • Posted by RevJay4 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Totally agree. Had to be intentional.
    I'm waiting to hear that some real American, not appointed stooge, at the IRS has come forward with copies of the "lost" emails. I keep hoping.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 11 years ago
    What a load of BS, what about the e-mail server????? Even more interesting....why are the republicrats in congress too stupid to ask this very basic question?
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  • Posted by johnpe1 11 years ago
    hey, if this crap is contagious, should we not ask
    the CDC to help? Oooohhhhh NOOooooooo, itsa
    nother fed agency! Mister Bill, it's Mister Hands!!! -- j

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  • Posted by NealS 11 years ago
    Who's next, the Pentagon? Let's see now, the VA, the State Department, the IRS, the EPA, and even the White House. No one has ant records of anything. Perhaps we need to shut down this broken down government and just start over.
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  • Posted by Mitch 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    It is possible that they setup the system in such a way that e-mail are stored locally, i.e. smtp and not mapi. You wouldn't need Exchange then, kind of the point of an Exchange server. No one does this and could easily be determined.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, to be accurate, with Outlook they can be transferred to the local harddrive. That would not be the default for gov't systems, and there are public records laws that would dictate that these e-mails would need to be recorded and backed up to a location that is retrievable. Thus, they were either violating the law in not maintaining their records properly, or they are obstructing justice by deleting public records. Either way, they're in deep doo doo.
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  • Posted by Mitch 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    The excuse is juvenile at best, her e-mails nor the EPA e-mails are contained on the user’s hard drive. The data is located on the Exchange server in the data center, only a catastrophic failure could wipe the e-mail for all users of the system. Selective deletion of two years of e-mails for a single user is deliberate, no questions about it. The e-mails exist somewhere, ether a backup, archive service or recipient e-mail boxes; it is bullshit excuse. They need to unplug all Exchange servers and personal PC (possible cached e-mail files in old profiles) and send them all to an IT forensics expert for recovery. If the Republicans had a backbone, this would have already been done. Hell, even deleted e-mail are not truly deleted from the system, just marked as tombstoned to be overwritten as space is needed or reorganized the SQL tables. This argument is akin to a child making the argument that their homework wasn’t done because their dog ate the home work but the child doesn’t have a dog and the teacher knows it.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Sorry man, I did pick it up. I was being very sarcastic about the duality of law we have in our country today. So my sarcasm did not come through as it would have in the spoken word.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 11 years ago
    The only time I have had consistent failures in purchased computer media (blank DVD's) was when they were "government archival standard."

    That said, the "public servants" involved in this case are liars who should be impaled on the White House lawn in plain view from the oval office.
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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    I know that, and am not that stupid or reckless. My facetiousness must not have come through in written form as well as it would have in spoken form.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    The IRS bought redundant drives, and tape backup systems. A mirrored Raid 5 array with 6 drives would need to have 4 fail at the same time to loose data. it could rebuild the data from the last 2 drives to the other 4 drives. Add on to that a tap backup and you have a snapshot in time backup every month or so.

    I mean how do you loose data with systems like that in your data server farm?
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 11 years ago
    Something tells me that I'd be in jail if the IRS came looking for info on my hard drive and THAT was MY excuse for it not being there.
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  • Posted by XenokRoy 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    It is illegal for anyone other than a government entity to do any variation of a ponzy scheme. The federal government may apply the principle to stocks, bonds or hard drives at will. If you try it you will go to Jail as an example to the rest of us that some have privilege and some do not.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 11 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Tass. The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union.

    That's what we've got: the Telegraph Agency of the Autonomous Capitalist Oblast of America, now part (as Obama would like to think) of the Union of Sovietized Peoples of the World.
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