tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511955047151145854.post7925829965778032676..comments2024-02-07T00:13:08.642-08:00Comments on Not One More Gun Law: Laws Are For The Little PeopleCharlie Foxtrothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15585447523050711767noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511955047151145854.post-26435492795930926052014-06-19T14:46:41.372-07:002014-06-19T14:46:41.372-07:00Agreed. I'd add that the Obama administration...Agreed. I'd add that the Obama administration is also showing a considerable amount of contempt for the American people. To think that the press will be able to provide infinite cover and that the people won't eventually question and/or be able to figure things out....<br /><br />I already understand he thinks he's the Smartest Man in the Room, but c'mon! He must think us a nation of first-class idiots!Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09378629103793458871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511955047151145854.post-54929625913721130322014-06-19T11:32:40.811-07:002014-06-19T11:32:40.811-07:00Thanks for the excellent explanation.
It does see...Thanks for the excellent explanation.<br /><br />It does seem like this is the latest step in a coordinated effort to hide, obfuscate, and cover-up the e-mail evidence trail. <br /><br />I've had my Outlook file corrupted in a computer crash at work. Our "Propeller Head" (his term ;)' ) was able to immediately restore the .pst file from a mid-day backup. He told me of the daily/ weekly/ monthly scheme they use for the backups. Impressive. Everything is backed up multiple ways and nothing ever gets thrown away: Some of the backups where in long term off-line storage. There's too much danger of lawsuits. There's also the government's laws mandating the preservation of e-mails. <br /><br />The saga of "Lost" IRS emails is a shaggy-dog story of the first water. In my opinion, it illustrates the contempt this administration has for the rule of law, the Constitution, and any limits on executive power. . Charlie Foxtrothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15585447523050711767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8511955047151145854.post-88312431777935728242014-06-19T10:20:18.498-07:002014-06-19T10:20:18.498-07:00Lerner's hard drive destroyed? Criminal, but ...Lerner's hard drive destroyed? Criminal, but not part of the bigger issue.<br /><br />Two years' worth of potentially-incriminating e-mails are just "gone," and the explanation is that "sometimes stuff just happens."<br /><br />Working in IT, I can verify that sometimes stuff indeed "just happens," but that's why information systems have redundancies, backups, and archived files. E-mail systems run on exchange servers, and an organization the size of the IRS should have several exchange servers or server clusters supporting each other; the users' workstations just access the data on the servers and maybe download a local copy, and if a server fails, the other servers carry the load until it's replaced.<br /><br />Lerner's computer crashed and the hard drive was destroyed? Big deal. It only had a local copy downloaded from the servers. Pull it out of the archives on the server/cluster.<br /><br />If it's missing from the server/cluster, there's only one explanation: "someone" removed it. This is bigger than Lerner's e-mails. Public agency communications - criminality/liability notwithstanding - are public record. Deleting them is a criminal offense unto itself, but deleting them in the face of a Congressional investigation is an even larger offense. This is not something Lerner could have done herself; it'd take an IT/e-mail administrator to manage this.<br /><br />Just my thoughts, as an anonymous IT worker....Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09378629103793458871noreply@blogger.com