re: IRS computers crashed 10 days after House committee sent letter asking...

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As I have said before I worked for DoD for 30 years. Believe it or not most agencies are way behind in technology. Many many agencies are using Windows XP still. Most agencies do not keep emails on a server past a certain time frame. Is the timing suspicious? Yes it is. But the explanations I've heard about destroying crashed hard drives, not keeping emails on servers unfortunately jibe with my career experiences.

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Then please explain how they have the technology, money, resources, manpower to track down a person who hadn't paid taxes on a $300 gambling win from 6 years prior?

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not keeping emails on servers unfortunately jibe with my career experiences.

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Mine also. Some companies direct you pull all emails older than say 3 years off the exchange server into a pst file, then delete all the unimportant ones. If you didn't put those pst files on an alternate drive, they could possibly be lost if you had a computer problem. I'm not an Exchange guru, so I don't know what the server actually does when you pull an email from your account into a personal folder.

I understand about recycling HDs, but in my experience you didn't "recycle" them to get the $0.04 worth of aluminum in the case. You "recycled" them to prevent the possibility of someone reading the info off them later. Here's Best Buy's pitch.

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The PD-4 is designed to physically destroy hard drives in order to prevent persons from being able to "spin" the hard drive up to retrieve data. The PD-4 will automatically bend, break and mangle the hard drive including the data platters - where the data is stored. Once destroyed, the data will no longer be retrievable.

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I would like to know what the data recovery guys saw when they tried to read her HD. I wonder if Sandy Berger was on the IT recovery team.

I wonder if Lerner has her pst files on a thumbdrive somewhere like I always did. If Monica Lewinski hadn't kept that blue cocktail dress, she would have been just another bimbo eruption. I'm just saying if this IRS was really coordinated at the White House, such a thumbdrive would be worth a Presidential pardon.