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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is no such thing as a "lost email"
In regards to the lost emails of Lois Lerner, the Republicans are having hissy fits that her hard drive crashed and she lost all her emails. In other words, if she sent me an email, that was lost on her crashed hard drive. Howevr, it is still on my hard drive. If you sent Lois Lerner an email, your email was lost on her hard drive also. But it is still on your hard drive. The emails were not lost.
If the Republicans truly wanted to see her emails, they could check her address book and request all emails sent to those in her address book. If they truly wanted those "lost emails", they could get them fairly easy. They are not "lost".
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,067 posts)of whatever email account she used. It's very hard to lose email.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)Be there unless they were able to erase them from all those places which is not trivial
Scuba
(53,475 posts)FreedRadical
(518 posts)They seem to have a back-up of everyone's email's.
rockbluff botanist
(60 posts)The emails reside with the millions of the lost Bush emails. All the repugs have to do is find those.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Then her data could be lost. And of course, it could still be reconstructed from other corresponding accounts.
But that doesn't make for good sound bites, does it?
kentuck
(110,916 posts)I guess they may be right.
ipfilter
(1,287 posts)It's possible to lose email but it's rare. Higher ranking people are more prone to lose it because they tend to keep it in .pst files on their PC and not store anything on the server. Most of them do this out of paranoia thinking the people in IT are reading their email. This business with the IRS chief is a little suspect but believable based on my prior experience. This timing is bad for sure.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)propaganda outrages, just like this one, and the lazy stenographers in the media just dutifully jot things down as if it was not so very obvious.
Pure clown train theatre, the media locates that stuff.
IcyPeas
(21,682 posts)However, the I.R.S. says it has recovered roughly 24,000 of the missing emails from the accounts of people on the other end of Ms. Lerners correspondence, in addition to about 43,000 retrieved directly from Ms. Lerners account for the time periods not affected by her computer crash
for the link.
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)and they too lost their emails. LOL.
kentuck
(110,916 posts)I'm not saying it is not possible but why aren't those folks being questioned?
DesMoinesDem
(1,569 posts)I think the probability of so many hard drives of people connected to this investigation crashing in such a small window of time is very close to zero.
kentuck
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Rex
(65,616 posts)NO way did 6 crash at the same time...this is just the GOP hoping their voters are THAT STUPID. And they probably are!
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)in my various IT and office jobs so I've never even thought that my emails could disappear if my computer crashed.
It's just never been a problem because I've used different computers and simply logged onto the network.
Cerridwen
(13,251 posts)with plans to recover a total of approx. 67,000.
A couple of us are discussing it in LBN and how it's being "reported."
One of my replies: http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=832606
The OP - please be sure to read beyond the headline: http://sync.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=832580
LLD
(136 posts)Issa calling O'Connor a hostile witness as if it were a trial, but also to bash IRS. That's all it's about. Playing politics to look good for their audience and nothing more.
The definition of hostile: of or relating to an enemy. They would rather milk this, so they actually don't really care if they receive anymore emails or not. They would rather play politics bashing IRS for a vote. Do nothing congress? They seem pretty good at doing something for their own benefit.