I for one would like to know what mitigation studies the IRS conducted to determine the root cause of these clusters of failures.
They're on it. The FBI launched its investigation last year.
That depends on the size of the data set, i.e., how many PCs are included in the group they're considering, the age of the PCs, and the length of time. For example, we learned the original "seven drives" failed over a three year period, from 2011 to 2014. It would probably also be useful to learn what they mean by "crash". For example, is that just drive failures or does it include related problems like corrupted OS and physical damage due to drops, spills, etc?
Not so far as we know, nor does it seem likely. The IRS standard process is apparently to "recycle" drives after they're done with their recovery work. Given that Lerner's drive crashed almost a year before any investigations even started, it seems safe to assume her drive is long gone. I don't know about the other six drives, except the most recent crash was sometime in 2014.
Piss off, asshat. I believe it was either Politico or CNN where I found the more detailed article. I didn't quote it nor did I say your link was inaccurate in this case; I therefore saw no reason to link it. Since this is a brand new story, I expect details will remain sparse until someone like the Washington Post gets their article up. They seem to provide the best depth overall for D.C. politics.
All G-d's chilluns had hard drive crashes, none of which were recoverable and none of which were backed up according to the law. Because convenient coincidence IS now the most powerful force in D.C.
😀 The FBI is already on it, and besides, it never happened!
Hey! Looks like Inconsequential's dumber brother is here. He has nothing to offer but is compelled to shoot off his mouth anyway, wasting Anand's electrons one useless post after another. Let the butt-hurt flow, twit for brains.
Humor is infinitely more useful than is continuously paving the way for tyranny with apologies and irrational rationalizing, dude.
Yes, you are. The simple fact is that previous wing-nut stories based on "partial transcripts" leaked by Republican Congressmen have proven to be lies. Thus, this story should be considered unsubstantiated until we get more solid information, preferably the complete transcript. I'm sorry if that's too complex for your tiny mind to follow.
Really? So the number of drives in the pool doesn't matter when considering the number of failures? The time period doesn't matter? The age of the drives doesn't matter? The information we get from politicians is just as technically useful as that from technical specialists? That's really interesting. Interesting in the sense that only a total hypocrite would suggest that while calling someone else a tool.
Yawn. To put it bluntly, you're outright lying. I've tried throughout to stick to facts, and to get others to stick to facts. Partisan conspiracy loons like you ignore any facts that challenge your party's propaganda, but eagerly swallow whatever they tell you to think, no matter how ridiculous or imaginary it may be,
I'm not really attempting to reason with them. They are ultimately irrelevant, noisy sheep lacking honesty and critical thinking skills. I do find the story itself both interesting and important, however. As I said from day one, IF the IRS truly was acting with partisan intent, it is completely unacceptable. It needs to be exposed and those involved punished. Unfortunately, the nutter clowns and partisan conspiracy tools have so tainted the investigations that I'm concerned we may never get to the whole truth. That mostly falls on Issa, of course, but his legions of raging fan boys has aggravated the damage with their incessant, ignorant screeching.
Or in other words:
I'm currently wavering between "Somebody missed a copy" and "Somebody couldn't stand the heat of making such patently ridiculous claims in public".
