Hard-drive failure?

We knew this was coming, didn’t we? There was no chance at all that the Internal Revenue Service was going to turn over the information Congress wants.

Honestly, I expected that the IRS was just going to say, “No. We’re not giving you that information.” Congress would hold somebody in contempt, President Barack Obama would issue a pardon and the Justice Department would pursue the matter no further. That would have been a lot more straight-up than lying about a hard-drive failure.

There isn’t a snowball’s chance that a single hard-drive failure caused them to lose a couple years’ worth of emails. Right off the top of my head, using the simplest of tools, I could create a system that would make it impossible to lose more than a single day’s worth of email messages. The IRS, with their vast amounts of taxpayer money, could create a system that would make it impossible to lose even a single email message due to a hard-drive failure.

If those messages are gone, they were deleted on purpose by a person ordered to do so.

Randall Jones

Newman Lake