Sources: Lois Lerner's emails likely gone forever (The IRS email system runs on Microsoft Outlook)
By RACHAEL BADE | 6/18/14 9:59 PM
EDT Updated: 6/18/14 11:34 PM EDT
Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s
crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the
lightening rod in the tea party targeting controversy will never be found,
according to multiple sources.
“We’ve been informed that the hard
drive has been thrown away,” Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the top Republican on the Finance
Committee, said in a brief hallway interview.
Two additional sources told
POLITICO the same late Wednesday, citing IRS officials.
It may just be standard government
procedure, but the revelation is significant because some lawmakers and
observers thought there was a way that tech experts could revive Lerner’s
emails after they were washed away in a computer crash in the summer of 2011.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa
(R-Calif.), for example, subpoenaed her damaged hard drive earlier this week,
when he asked for “all hard drives, external drives, thumb drives and
computers” and “all electronic communication devices the IRS issued to Lois G.
Lerner.”
“IT experts have weighed in and
said yes — we can get those” emails, said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La.) earlier
Wednesday.
The latest news suggests such
professionals may never get the chance to try again — and the IRS has even said
its criminal investigators who specialize in rebuilding hard drives to recover
hidden information from criminals were unable to restore the data back in 2011.
But this is only likely to further enrage Republicans, who are fuming over the
matter and suspect Washington
officials drove the selective scrutiny.
The IRS told congressional
investigators on Friday that the emails of Lerner, the former head of the tax
exempt division that was found to have singled out conservative groups for
additional scrutiny, were lost from 2009 to 2011 in a computer hard drive crash
in early summer 2011. IRS chief John
Koskinen will face angry Republicans at a hearing on Friday.
The time frame is significant
because the tea party targeting began in spring of 2010, and Republicans think
if there was a smoking gun connecting the Obama administration to the IRS
treatment of conservative groups, it could be found during that period.
“We believe the standard IRS
protocol was followed in 2011 for disposing of the broken hard drive. A bad
hard drive, like other broken Information Technology equipment, is sent to a
recycler as part of our regular process,” an IRS spokesman said in response to
a query from POLITICO.
On Wednesday, the White House
retorted that for the time frame in which Lerner’s emails are missing, there
are no direct communications between 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. and the now-retired Lerner.
Earlier this week, Ways and Means
Republicans said as many as six IRS employees involved in the scandal also lost
email in computer crashes, including the former chief of staff for the acting
IRS commissioner.
That’s because before May 2013,
the IRS backed up emails only for six months on a tape, then recycled the
tapes, so they essentially threw out the data. Many agencies do the same,
transparency experts say.
The Treasury Inspector General for
Tax Administration, which wrote the May 2013 report that uncovered the practice
of IRS workers singling out some applicants for tax breaks with the words “tea
party” for added scrutiny, is currently in possession of Lerner’s laptop and
her new hard drive, according to an IRS letter.
The IRS has been able to retrieve
about 24,000 of Lerner’s emails sent to other IRS employees by recovering them
from other agents who received, sent or were copied on the emails.
However, Koskinen has acknowledged
that the IRS wouldn’t be able to find emails Lerner sent outside the agency.
Lois Lerner
Lois
Lerner was the head of division on tax-exempt organizations for the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS).
Note: John A. Koskinen
is the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and a director at the AES Corporation.
Roger
W. Sant was the chairman & co-founder of the AES Corporation, and is married to Victoria
P. Sant.
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President Obama
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Rossotti is the chairman for the AES Corporation, a
director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), a director at Booz
Allen Hamilton, and was a commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
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Allison Jr. was the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of the Treasury for the Barack Obama administration, and a director at the Atlantic Council
of the United States
(think tank).
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States (think tank), and Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
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chairman for the Foundation to Promote
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(think tank), the Aspen Institute
(think tank), the International Rescue Committee, and Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
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is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Roger W. Sant.
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Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a managing
director at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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is the EVP & general counsel for Booz
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is a member of the President's Export
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Wilderotter is Denise M. Morrison’s
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and was an SVP for the Microsoft
Corporation.
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The IRS email system runs on
Microsoft Outlook.
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Wince-Smith is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and was a member of the IRS
Oversight Board.
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is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
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Holsman Fore is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and a trustee at the Aspen
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Crown is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank).
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Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
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Rossotti was a commissioner for the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), is a director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), the chairman for the AES Corporation, and a director at Booz
Allen Hamilton.
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is the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and a director at the AES Corporation.
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Wilkins is the chief counsel for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the Barack
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Department of State secretary John
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is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Roger W. Sant.
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W. Sant is married to Victoria P. Sant, and was the chairman & co-founder of
the AES
Corporation.
John A. Koskinen
is a director at the AES Corporation, and the commissioner for the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS).
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Naim is a director at the AES Corporation, a senior
associate, International Economics Program for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and was a board
member for the International Crisis
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member for the International Crisis
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& Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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III is a co-chair for the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation, and the co-founder & technology adviser &
director for the Microsoft Corporation.
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The IRS email system runs on
Microsoft Outlook.
Victoria P. Sant
is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Roger W. Sant.
Cameron F. Kerry
is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the U.S. Department of State secretary John F. Kerry’s brother, and was an associate at Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr.
William J.
Wilkins was a partner at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and is the chief
counsel for the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) for the Barack Obama administration.
Lois
Lerner was the head of division on tax-exempt organizations for the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS).
John A. Koskinen
is the commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and a director at the AES Corporation.
Roger
W. Sant was the chairman & co-founder of the AES Corporation, and is married to Victoria
P. Sant.
Victoria P. Sant
is married to Roger W. Sant, and an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
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trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American
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participant (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and was a managing
director at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Charles O.
Rossotti is a director at Booz Allen Hamilton, the chairman for the AES Corporation, a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States
(think tank), and was a commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Robert S. Osborne
is the EVP & general counsel for Booz
Allen Hamilton, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
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is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
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Security Agency (NSA), and reportedly collects data from Microsoft Corporation.
The Latest on Lois Lerner’s “Lost” Emails, With a
Bombshell At the End
The IRS email system runs on
Microsoft Outlook.
Mary Agnes
Wilderotter was the SVP for the Microsoft
Corporation, is Denise M. Morrison’s
sister, and a member of the Belizean
Grove.
Belizean_Grove
is the equivalent to the male-only social group, the Bohemian Club.
Deborah L.
Wince-Smith is a member of the Belizean
Grove, and was a member of the IRS
Oversight Board.
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