Who would have thought? After all this time, that 30,000 of Lois Lerner's emails would suddenly be "discovered" on disaster recovery backup disk driver?
In a standard Friday Night Document Dump (FNDD), the IRS has released a new batch of Lerner emails, subsequent to a lawsuit by Judicial Watch.
"Judicial Watch announced today that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
admitted to the court that it failed to search any of the IRS standard
computer systems for the “missing” emails of Lois Lerner and other IRS
officials. The admission appears in an IRS legal brief opposing the
Judicial Watch request that a federal court judge allow discovery into
how “lost and/or destroyed” IRS records may be retrieved."
See here: IRS admits to court it hasn't searched for missing lerner emails
This admission by IRS begs the reaction: Are you kidding me, this is computer operations 101?: "IRS attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency’s
servers for missing emails because they decided that “the servers would
not result in the recovery of any information.” They admitted they had
failed to search the agency’s disaster recovery tapes because they had
“no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of
recovering” the missing emails. And they conceded that they had not
searched the government-wide back-up system because they had “no reason
to believe such a system … even exists.”"
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