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What an interesting timeline.
June 4, 2011: House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp sent a letter to the IRS asking if they were engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups.
June 14, 2011: Lois Lerner announced that her computer's hard drive crashed, destroying files and emails.
Sept. 8, 2011: The IRS cancelled their longtime contract with the email-backup firm Sonasoft.
June 14, 2011 - June 12, 2014: While Congress requests and subpoenas Lerner's emails over and over, the IRS keps very quiet for three years, not mentioning whether the 2011 hard drive crash deleted any of them. The IRS simply promises again and again, that it will provide all of Lerner's emails.
June 13, 2014: The IRS announces that Lerner's hard drive crash deleted ALL the emails between her and outside agencies such as the White House, from the peiod being investigated.
June 16, 2014: The IRS announces that six other people being investigated, some of whom frequently visited the White House during the period being investigated, also had hard drive crashes, and that their emails are gone too.
Naw, I don't see any reason to suspect a connection between any of these events, do you?
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IRS Fired Email-Archiving Firm After Lerner Crash | The Daily Caller!
IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerners Computer Crash
10:28 AM 06/22/2014
Patrick Howley
Political Reporter
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerners computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials computers allegedly crashed.
The IRS signed a contract with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, California, each year from 2005 to 2010. The company, which partners with Microsoft and counts The New York Times among its clients, claims in its company slogans that it provides Email Archiving Done Right and Point-Click Recovery. Sonasoft in 2009 tweeted, If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldnt you choose them to protect your servers?
Sonasoft was providing automatic data processing services for the IRS throughout the January 2009 to April 2011 period in which Lerner sent her missing emails.
But Sonasofts six-year business relationship with the IRS came to an abrupt end at the close of fiscal year 2011, as congressional investigators began looking into the IRS conservative targeting scandal and IRS employees computers started crashing left and right.
Sonasofts fiscal year 2011 contract with the IRS ended on August 31, 2011. Eight days later, the IRS officially closed out its relationship with Sonasoft in accordance with the federal governments contract close-out guidelines, which require agencies to fully audit their contracts and to get back any money that wasnt used by the contractor. Curiously, the IRS de-allocated 36 cents when it closed out its contract with Sonasoft on September 8, 2011.
Lois Lerners computer allegedly crashed in June 2011, just ten days after House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups. Two months later, Sonasofts contract ended and the IRS gave its email-archiving contractor the boot.
IRS official and frequent White House visitor Nikole Flax allegedly suffered her own computer crash in December 2011, three months after the IRS ended its relationship with Sonasoft.
June 4, 2011: House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp sent a letter to the IRS asking if they were engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups.
June 14, 2011: Lois Lerner announced that her computer's hard drive crashed, destroying files and emails.
Sept. 8, 2011: The IRS cancelled their longtime contract with the email-backup firm Sonasoft.
June 14, 2011 - June 12, 2014: While Congress requests and subpoenas Lerner's emails over and over, the IRS keps very quiet for three years, not mentioning whether the 2011 hard drive crash deleted any of them. The IRS simply promises again and again, that it will provide all of Lerner's emails.
June 13, 2014: The IRS announces that Lerner's hard drive crash deleted ALL the emails between her and outside agencies such as the White House, from the peiod being investigated.
June 16, 2014: The IRS announces that six other people being investigated, some of whom frequently visited the White House during the period being investigated, also had hard drive crashes, and that their emails are gone too.
Naw, I don't see any reason to suspect a connection between any of these events, do you?
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IRS Fired Email-Archiving Firm After Lerner Crash | The Daily Caller!
IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerners Computer Crash
10:28 AM 06/22/2014
Patrick Howley
Political Reporter
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerners computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials computers allegedly crashed.
The IRS signed a contract with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, California, each year from 2005 to 2010. The company, which partners with Microsoft and counts The New York Times among its clients, claims in its company slogans that it provides Email Archiving Done Right and Point-Click Recovery. Sonasoft in 2009 tweeted, If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldnt you choose them to protect your servers?
Sonasoft was providing automatic data processing services for the IRS throughout the January 2009 to April 2011 period in which Lerner sent her missing emails.
But Sonasofts six-year business relationship with the IRS came to an abrupt end at the close of fiscal year 2011, as congressional investigators began looking into the IRS conservative targeting scandal and IRS employees computers started crashing left and right.
Sonasofts fiscal year 2011 contract with the IRS ended on August 31, 2011. Eight days later, the IRS officially closed out its relationship with Sonasoft in accordance with the federal governments contract close-out guidelines, which require agencies to fully audit their contracts and to get back any money that wasnt used by the contractor. Curiously, the IRS de-allocated 36 cents when it closed out its contract with Sonasoft on September 8, 2011.
Lois Lerners computer allegedly crashed in June 2011, just ten days after House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups. Two months later, Sonasofts contract ended and the IRS gave its email-archiving contractor the boot.
IRS official and frequent White House visitor Nikole Flax allegedly suffered her own computer crash in December 2011, three months after the IRS ended its relationship with Sonasoft.