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The dog ate the IRS's homework.

The rash of government hard drive failures continues:

The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/14/lois-lerners-former-fec-colleague-has-emails-go-missing-too/
 
dismal said:
The rash of government hard drive failures continues:

The Federal Election Commission recycled the computer hard drive of April Sands — a former co-worker of Lois Lerner’s — hindering an investigation into Sands’ partisan political activities, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Sands resigned from the Federal Election Commission in April after she admitted to violating the Hatch Act, which bars executive branch employees from engaging in partisan political activities on federal time and at federal facilities.
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/14/lois-lerners-former-fec-colleague-has-emails-go-missing-too/
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I love this Hatch Act. You can't engage in partisan political activity on Federal time. What in the fucking hell has the Republican controlled Congress been doing since January 2011?
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
dismal said:
The rash of government hard drive failures continues:



http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/14/lois-lerners-former-fec-colleague-has-emails-go-missing-too/
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I love this Hatch Act. You can't engage in partisan political activity on Federal time. What in the fucking hell has the Republican controlled Congress been doing since January 2011?
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The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in partisan political activity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
 
dismal said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
I love this Hatch Act. You can't engage in partisan political activity on Federal time. What in the fucking hell has the Republican controlled Congress been doing since January 2011?
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The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials of that branch, from engaging in partisan political activity.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act_of_1939
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Well that clears that up.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
barbos said:
So, despite multiple proclamations from local IT geniuses that email loss is routine occurrence, IRS had perfectly perfect email backup and storage. They just got rid of it when shit started to hit the fan, very convenient I must say.
oh, wait, Sonasoft said they whey are not storing IRS emails.
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You're missing the fact that the e-mail loss is emergent behavior, not what anybody planned.

Policy: Store everything on the server, put nothing of importance on local hard drives as they are not backed up. Hard drives are for programs only. (Even in an environment with only dozens of people that's how it worked.)

Reality: The server storage was inadequate, people moved old e-mails to local storage. Local drives sometimes crashed, thus those backed-up emails were lost.

The workers were put in a catch-22.
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They destroyed their emails.
 
The mystery is over:

The House late Monday night adopted proposals by voice vote to cut funding for the Internal Revenue Service.

Rep. Paul Gosar's (R-Ariz.) amendment to the fiscal 2015 Financial Services appropriations bill would cut funding for the IRS by $353 million. Specifically, Gosar's amendment would cut that funding from the IRS enforcement account and use it toward deficit reduction.
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I wonder who benefits the most from a lack of enforcement?
 
Horatio Parker said:
The mystery is over:

The House late Monday night adopted proposals by voice vote to cut funding for the Internal Revenue Service.

Rep. Paul Gosar's (R-Ariz.) amendment to the fiscal 2015 Financial Services appropriations bill would cut funding for the IRS by $353 million. Specifically, Gosar's amendment would cut that funding from the IRS enforcement account and use it toward deficit reduction.
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I wonder who benefits the most from a lack of enforcement?
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$353 million. How was the value chosen?
 
dismal said:
The IRS has a $2.4 billion annual IT budget and they gave Lois Lerner 150mb of e-mail space and a(n allegedly) rickety harddrive.

To put this in perspective, this high tech device has 50 times the storage capacity they gave Lois Lerner:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4V21JJ8774

$0.99 on newegg but probably cost you a milli or two if you're the IRS.
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Man, dismal has a point. Spend $2.4 billion on IT for the only person that works at the IRS. Seems like a ripoff to me.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
dismal said:
The IRS has a $2.4 billion annual IT budget and they gave Lois Lerner 150mb of e-mail space and a(n allegedly) rickety harddrive.

To put this in perspective, this high tech device has 50 times the storage capacity they gave Lois Lerner:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4V21JJ8774

$0.99 on newegg but probably cost you a milli or two if you're the IRS.
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Man, dismal has a point. Spend $2.4 billion on IT for the only person that works at the IRS. Seems like a ripoff to me.
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Ooh, Jimmy that was a really awesome rebuttal.

Except for the fact that anyone who knows jackshit about IT costs is going to be completely dumbfounded that an organization can have a $2.4 billion IT budget and give its employees 150 mb of email space and defending it would make anyone look like a shameless hack.
 
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