Since when aren't emails stored on hard drives? In any case, the IRS, who demands that we keep records for a minimum of seven years, and can even require proof long before THAT, has an obligation to keep every single email. That, in my opinion, is a piss-poor excuse. Six thousand emails?? That's merely 28 emails a day for a year. I don't even believe it.
I think you need to check the archiving law on that.The IRS does not have a legal obligation to retain every single e-mail regardless of content for any length of time let alone seven years. It is only required to retain e-mails with a certain content for x length of time. If that is the bone you wish to pick then advocate for a change in the law.
The IRS does not have a legal obligation to retain every single e-mail regardless of content for any length of time let alone seven years. It is only required to retain e-mails with a certain content for x length of time. If that is the bone you wish to pick then advocate for a change in the law.
“The [Federal Records Act] requires agencies to make and preserve records of agency decisions, policies, and essential transactions, and to take steps to safeguard against the loss of agency records,” said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, who subpoenaed IRS Commissioner John Koskinen Monday.
The IRS’s own definition of the Federal Records Act makes clear that emails must be saved and documented, according to an instructional page for employees on the IRS website.
“The Federal Records Act applies to email records just as it does to records you create using other media,” according to the IRS. “Emails are records when they are: Created or received in the transaction of agency business; Appropriate for preservation as evidence of the government’s function and activities; or Valuable because of the information they contain.”
Read more: IRS required by law to print out emails for record-keeping | The Daily Caller
And where are you getting your information, Napoleon?
Wrong, Trey Gowdy is a grandstanding asshole. He doesn't want answers, he wants to show off.
Trey Gowdy tears Koskinen a new asshole.
What evidence do you have that any of the e-mails lost meet that requirement? Thats right, NONE. For all you know they could have been itemizing Lois Lerner's recipe for chicken soup.
What evidence do you have that any of the e-mails lost meet that requirement? Thats right, NONE. For all you know they could have been itemizing Lois Lerner's recipe for chicken soup.
Haven't seen a corporation yet that can't provide emails for at least 5 years. Are you saying that the federal government is so incompetent they can't keep the same records? I mean are you really hitching your trailer to that excuse? This is 2014 not 1990.
So long as they are on a government email exchang, they are still required to be archived. I have worked on government systems for about a decade now, and that is the rule regardless of whether or not the email was intended as a personal message. Chicken soup is still legally required to be stored.
That is why, for example, the White House staff started creating extra gmail accounts to handle official business that they did not want exposed on.
Consider for a moment that this is what the IRS still uses to store your tax returns:
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You're right, it isn't 1990, but it isn't 2014 for the IRS either. Their computers are from the 1960s. In fact, they're the same ones featured in this video:
Sorry but can you please cite for us where this same equipment is used to store tax returns from 2013? I find that difficult to believe.
Maybe, but Gowdy needs to go back and hit the law books. He'd have to know what the content of the e-mails were and establish that it was material to the case before even thinking about claiming spoliation of evidence. Even if he managed to do that, it still isn't spoliation because they were lost prior to the investigation.
Wrong, Trey Gowdy is a grandstanding asshole. He doesn't want answers, he wants to show off.
What evidence do you have that any of the e-mails lost meet that requirement? Thats right, NONE. For all you know they could have been itemizing Lois Lerner's recipe for chicken soup.
Koskinen is a condescending dickhead.
Consider for a moment that this is what the IRS still uses to store your tax returns:
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Holy crap. I thought you were joking. They actually do used those computer systems from the 1960's??????