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标 题: 众议院对IRS说: 把你的硬盘拿过我们看看
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 17 18:00:49 2014, 美东)
House Oversight Subpoenas Lois Lerner’s IRS Computer Hard Drive
June 17, 2014 - 5:11 PM
By Michael W. Chapman
(CNSNews.com) – Because the IRS told Congress late last Friday that former
IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer had apparently crashed and her emails
from January 2009 to April 2011 were now lost, the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee issued a subpoena today for that computer hard
drive, other electronic devices, and all communications and documents
related to that PC crash.
“After a year of beating down efforts by the Obama administration and its
allies to obstruct an investigation into targeting, the IRS now says it lost
perhaps the most critical evidence,” said House Oversight Chairman Darrell
Issa (R-Calif.) in a June 17 statement.
“When [IRS] Commissioner Koskinen testified before the Committee in
February, he made no mention of this,” said Issa. “It was only earlier
this month, during an interview with a Justice Department official, that the
Oversight Committee learned about the existence of subpoenaed 2010 Lerner e
-mails that the IRS had not produced.”
“While this apparently forced the IRS to cough up an admission, we still do
not have answers about how and why the IRS tried to deceive Congress about
these missing e-mails,” said Issa. “This subpoena seeks those answers.”
Lois Lerner was the director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Unit. When
news broke in May 2013 that the IRS had been delaying approval of the tax-
exempt status applications of numerous Tea Party and conservative
organizations since at least early 2010, Congress started to investigate the
matter.
Lerner was called to testify twice before Congress about the scandal but she
pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination both times. Lerner
resigned from the IRS in September 2013 after an internal review board
concluded she should be removed for “neglect of duties.”
In May 2014, the House of Representatives voted to hold Lerner in contempt
of Congress.
Since May of last year, House investigators have requested documents on the
Tea Party tax-exempt applications, as well as related communications,
including e-mails from Lois Lerner and other IRS officials. At least three
congressional committees are investigating Lerner’s role in the scandal.
In a letter to the Senate Committee on Finance last Friday, June 13, IRS
Director for Legislative Affairs Leonard Oursler disclosed, “the IRS has
determined that Ms. Lerner’s computer crashed in mid-2011. See Attachment E
. At that time, the IRS Information Technology Division tried – at Ms.
Lerner’s request – multiple processes to recover the information stored on
her computer’s hard drive. (See 6.13-Wyden-Hatch-Response.pdf)
“However, the data stored on her computer’s hard drive was determined at
the time to be ‘unrecoverable’ by IT professionals,” reads the letter. “
Attachment F. Any of Ms. Lerner’s email that was only stored on that
computer’s hard drive would have been lost when the hard drive crashed and
could not be recovered.”
When asked about the hard drive and the lost emails on Tuesday, June 17,
White House spokesman John Earnest said, “You’ve never heard of a computer
crashing before?”
Asked by a reporter if that was a reasonable claim, Earnest said, “I think
it’s entirely reasonable because it’s the truth and it’s a fact, and
speculation otherwise I think is indicative of the kinds of conspiracies
that are propagated around this story.”
On Monday, June 16, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed IRS
Commissioner John Koskinen to testify on June 23 about the IRS losing the
unknown number of Lerner/IRS e-mails covering the period January 2009 to
April 2011.
That subpoena “also comes on the heels of the IRS’s repeated empty
promises of compliance with oversight,” said the committee in a statement.
For the subpoena issued today, the Oversight Committee is, among other items
, requesting the following:
All back-up tapes, external drives, thumb drives, or other storage media
the IRS used to capture, archive, back up, or otherwise record e-mails sent
or received by Lois Lerner from January 1, 2009, to September 23, 2013.
All hard drives, external drives, thumb drives, and computers Lois G.
Lerner used from January 1, 2009, to September 23, 2013.
All electronic communication devices the IRS issued to Lois G. Lerner
from January 1, 2009, to September 23, 2013.
All electronic files, including, but not limited to, .pst files,
relating to the IRS e-mail account Lois G. Lerner used from January 1, 2009,
to September 23, 2013.
All documents and communications between or among IRS employees and
employees of any Executive Branch entity referring or relating to the IRS’s
production of documents to Congress from May 10, 2013, to the present.
On a related note, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp called
upon the White House and President Barack Obama to provide his committee
with "all communications between Lois Lerner and any persons within the
Executive Office of President for the period between January 1, 2009 and May
1, 2011."
Camp said he's also requested "all communications" between Lerner and anyone
working at the Treasury Department, Justice Department, Environmental
Protection Agency, Federal Election Commission, and the Occupational Safety
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发帖数: 1729 | 2 民主社会好，证据可以公然销毁。
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: 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
: 发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
: 标 题: 众议院对IRS说: 把你的硬盘拿过我们看看
: 发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jun 17 18:00:49 2014, 美东)
: House Oversight Subpoenas Lois Lerner’s IRS Computer Hard Drive
: June 17, 2014 - 5:11 PM
: By Michael W. Chapman
: (CNSNews.com) – Because the IRS told Congress late last Friday that former
: IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer had apparently crashed and her emails
: from January 2009 to April 2011 were now lost, the House Oversight and
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发帖数: 1025 | 3 销毁不了，NSA那都有一份备份。
所以大家都在演戏。
【在 l*********g 的大作中提到】
: 民主社会好，证据可以公然销毁。
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