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Another Agency tells Congress: File not found

Oh yeah, sure.....the most Transparent Administration, Evaaa! What say ye?


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS share a problem: officials say they cannot provide the emails a congressional committee has requested because an employee’s hard drive crashed. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy confirmed to the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that her staff is unable to provide lawmakers all of the documents they have requested on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, because of a 2010 computer crash.

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“We’re having trouble getting the data off of it and we’re trying other sources to actually supplement that,” McCarthy said. “We’re challenged in figuring out where those small failures might have occurred and what caused them occur, but we’ve produced a lot of information.” “We have tried to serve a subpoena on your former employee and we have asked for the failed hard drive from this Alaskan individual who now is in New Zealand, and seems to never be returning,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, said Wednesday.

Emails provided by the committee show that EPA told congressional investigators about the hard drive crash months ago. But McCarthy said she only told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) about the problem Tuesday.The NARA enforces the Federal Records Act, which governs federal agencies’ responsibilities to maintain records.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said EPA probably violated the Federal Records Act by not backing up North’s emails.


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This govt is getting far too sassy. They need to be taken down a notch.
 
Wow--eleven straight posts in this thread Maenud-
Jesus Christ!
Unlike the Senate and Sen. Rubio who did git er done.
Guess that tame step-by-step method of Cantor didn't work.
And McDaniel should have used the "Immigration" card on Cochran--Cochran Dems :lamo
 
This govt is getting far too sassy. They need to be taken down a notch.
Sassy is a good reason to throw away hundreds of millions doing nothing.
And since the fire burned out on the "select" committee already, Boehner needed to feed the TEAs some red meat after the Cochran Dems fiasco .
 
Not all Americans lived through the last Republican did they?
Not to mention the tens of thousands Cheney/Bush didn't count on swamping the VA--as you well know.
Well we've lived through Obama, they will live through a Republican.
And of course all the Iraqis killed didn't gin up their hatred for us either right ?
 
I notice the leftists make themselves pretty scarce here. For a while, I thought this was almost entirely a conservative forum. If they do participate, it is usually, nothing more than a few jabs, never a post with content or a link to back up their beliefs. I've pretty much given them an engraved invitation and all they do is invite me outside to duke it out! LOL. Not my style.

They have no ground on which to stand. This is the most corrupt administration in history, and these chumps know it. But they wont say it.


Years from now they will tell tales about how outraged they were. Sure they are.
 
Sassy is a good reason to throw away hundreds of millions doing nothing.
And since the fire burned out on the "select" committee already, Boehner needed to feed the TEAs some red meat after the Cochran Dems fiasco .

Bless your heart you think the IRS fiasco is over? I assure you its not. I wonder how many more years you need to figure out this is just the beginning.
 
Questioning? On here they are dead silent! They cannot defend Obama's unconscionable actions and the aren't even giving it a try.


Well its different here.....here its who is the messenger. :mrgreen:
 
This govt is getting far too sassy. They need to be taken down a notch.


Well Issa did say that the guy doesn't appear to be returning. Even when she was testifying.....she put up her desk nameplate. Hon. and her name.

Hon for Honorable......huh? :lol:
 
But you do have to give ear to the poster on this thread who quantified why many Americans aren't more involved. They are trying to survive. And after that you need to address the perfectly capable voters who go to the polls and register their 'none of the above' vote. Everyone needs to be badgering their Congressmen and women to do something about this mess that will be effective and long lasting..

All problems. The country is distracted and asleep to the issues shaping our future. Hopefully the upcoming election will provide an opportunity to effect some meaningful change of course.
 
Well Issa did say that the guy doesn't appear to be returning. Even when she was testifying.....she put up her desk nameplate. Hon. and her name.

Hon for Honorable......huh? :lol:

Lerner will make some lucky lady a fine wife in prison.
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Oh yeah, sure.....the most Transparent Administration, Evaaa! What say ye?


The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the IRS share a problem: officials say they cannot provide the emails a congressional committee has requested because an employee’s hard drive crashed. EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy confirmed to the House Oversight Committee Wednesday that her staff is unable to provide lawmakers all of the documents they have requested on the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska, because of a 2010 computer crash.

issadarrell011614getty.jpg


“We’re having trouble getting the data off of it and we’re trying other sources to actually supplement that,” McCarthy said. “We’re challenged in figuring out where those small failures might have occurred and what caused them occur, but we’ve produced a lot of information.” “We have tried to serve a subpoena on your former employee and we have asked for the failed hard drive from this Alaskan individual who now is in New Zealand, and seems to never be returning,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, said Wednesday.

Emails provided by the committee show that EPA told congressional investigators about the hard drive crash months ago. But McCarthy said she only told the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) about the problem Tuesday.The NARA enforces the Federal Records Act, which governs federal agencies’ responsibilities to maintain records.

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) said EPA probably violated the Federal Records Act by not backing up North’s emails.


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I believe strongly in government personnel right up to the President keeping records and recordings of their activities. Of all their activities. As this is an essential block in keeping government under control, I would hope that the punishment is harsh at the level that lost it and the two levels above, when such information is not available.
 
This govt is getting far too sassy. They need to be taken down a notch.

I love that expression. My mother used to say, 'you need to be taken down a button hole.' You're right. They do. I wouldn't call them 'sassy'. Sassy can be cute. I'd call them 'brazen.' Brazen is never cute.
 
Wow--eleven straight posts in this thread Maenud-

Unlike the Senate and Sen. Rubio who did git er done.
Guess that tame step-by-step method of Cantor didn't work.
And McDaniel should have used the "Immigration" card on Cochran--Cochran Dems :lamo

[NIMBY] carried on counting [not so] quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...”

Roughly paraphrased from Douglas Adams
 
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But nothing on the "Immigration" card that Boehner is preemptively suing over, along with ACA.
But wait--Boehner/TEA doesn't know what he's suing over yet, just that he's suing.
And you're 2-0 today with your GOP USSC.
[NIMBY] carried on counting [not so] quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood...”

Douglas Adams
 
Did you really say that Lerner will make some lucky lady a fine wife in prison?
Lerner will make some lucky lady a fine wife in prison.


I can't imagine Ronald Reagan, born and bred in my state of IL, ever supporting that kind of statement .
 
Did you really say that Lerner will make some lucky lady a fine wife in prison?



I can't imagine Ronald Reagan, born and bred in my state of IL, ever supporting that kind of statement .

Neither, too, would he have supported such an abrasive, in your face style of DGAF attitude towards OBVIOUS corruption.
 
I believe strongly in government personnel right up to the President keeping records and recordings of their activities. Of all their activities. As this is an essential block in keeping government under control, I would hope that the punishment is harsh at the level that lost it and the two levels above, when such information is not available.

I have worked for the feds. An individual worker's mailbox is limited in size. You have to keep deleting emails to keep your stored emails within the preset limits. But every email you send or receive is stored on a large main hard drive, not always in the same town as the employee. If anyone wanted, they could go back and get emails I sent and received in the early 90s. Nothing is permanently stored on an individual computer. This is nothing more than a bull**** punt by a dishonest and corrupt administration.
 
"Andrei, you've lost another submarine?"
 
Neither, too, would he have supported such an abrasive, in your face style of DGAF attitude towards OBVIOUS corruption.
Are you sure you want to go with Reagan not supporting an abrasive, IYF style of DGAF attitude towards OBVIOUS corruption.
Seems to me we had eight years of that with RWR, not that you want to hear any specs.
Hell, those who are fighting over Reagan's mantle today think Amnesty is illegal, until you tell them Reagan did it .
 
But nothing on the "Immigration" card that Boehner is preemptively suing over, along with ACA.
But wait--Boehner/TEA doesn't know what he's suing over yet, just that he's suing.
And you're 2-0 today with your GOP USSC.

“Very deep. You should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people like you.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 
Did you really say that Lerner will make some lucky lady a fine wife in prison?



I can't imagine Ronald Reagan, born and bred in my state of IL, ever supporting that kind of statement .

“This must be Thursday... [NIMBY] never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
Roughly quoted from Douglas Adams

Ronal Reagan is dead. He will not be supporting any kind of statement. :roll:
 
“This must be Thursday... [NIMBY] never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
Roughly quoted from Douglas Adams

Ronal Reagan is dead. He will not be supporting any kind of statement. :roll:

Everyone in your party is trying to hijack the good name of Reagan--he is very alive to your Leaders.
Very few of you Bachmanns have a clue about the man.
Btw, please keep Bachmann on House Intelligence :lamo
 
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