IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerner's HD Crash

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"Lois Lerner’s 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, Sonasoft’s 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."

Just curious what exactly was in these emails. Was it worse than Watergate?

Yes, if the allegations are true, it's worse than Nixon's actions, because Lerner and her acolytes went a bit further than endeavors: "He has, acting personally and through his subordinated and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigation to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner." [1]

[1] Articles of Impeachment against Nixon

http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/impeachments/nixon....

Apart from the intriguing timelines and their political ramifications -- it's strange to imagine that the IRS, of all agencies, would not set up and maintain complete archives and backups. Or would somehow stop doing so.

Bonus question: How many other federal agencies operate like that?

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