IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerner’s Computer Crash

[Little-Acorn]

What an interesting timeline.

June 4, 2011: House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp sent a letter to the IRS asking if they were engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups.

June 14, 2011: Lois Lerner announced that her computer's hard drive crashed, destroying files and emails.

Sept. 8, 2011: The IRS cancelled their longtime contract with the email-backup firm Sonasoft.

June 14, 2011 - June 12, 2014: While Congress requests and subpoenas Lerner's emails over and over, the IRS keps very quiet for three years, not mentioning whether the 2011 hard drive crash deleted any of them. The IRS simply promises again and again, that it will provide all of Lerner's emails.

June 13, 2014: The IRS announces that Lerner's hard drive crash deleted ALL the emails between her and outside agencies such as the White House, from the peiod being investigated.

June 16, 2014: The IRS announces that six other people being investigated, some of whom frequently visited the White House during the period being investigated, also had hard drive crashes, and that their emails are gone too.

Naw, I don't see any reason to suspect a connection between any of these events, do you?

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IRS Fired Email-Archiving Firm After Lerner Crash | The Daily Caller!

IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerner’s Computer Crash

10:28 AM 06/22/2014
Patrick Howley
Political Reporter

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials’ computers allegedly crashed.

The IRS signed a contract with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, California, each year from 2005 to 2010. The company, which partners with Microsoft and counts The New York Times among its clients, claims in its company slogans that it provides “Email Archiving Done Right” and “Point-Click Recovery.” Sonasoft in 2009 tweeted, “If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldn’t you choose them to protect your servers?”

Sonasoft was providing “automatic data processing” services for the IRS throughout the January 2009 to April 2011 period in which Lerner sent her missing emails.

But Sonasoft’s six-year business relationship with the IRS came to an abrupt end at the close of fiscal year 2011, as congressional investigators began looking into the IRS conservative targeting scandal and IRS employees’ computers started crashing left and right.

Sonasoft’s fiscal year 2011 contract with the IRS ended on August 31, 2011. Eight days later, the IRS officially closed out its relationship with Sonasoft in accordance with the federal government’s contract close-out guidelines, which require agencies to fully audit their contracts and to get back any money that wasn’t used by the contractor. Curiously, the IRS de-allocated 36 cents when it closed out its contract with Sonasoft on September 8, 2011.

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.

 

[Little-Acorn]

This bit of news about SOnasoft having the conttract to back up the IRS's emails, just became public, off couurse (althought the IRS knew it all along, of course).

So, when will Sonasoft employees be brought to Washington to testify to Congress about what email backups were kept during the period under investigation, and where those backups are now?

 

[Care4all]

What an interesting timeline.

June 4, 2011: House Ways and Means Chairman David Camp sent a letter to the IRS asking if they were engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups.

June 14, 2011: Lois Lerner announced that her computer's hard drive crashed, destroying files and emails.

Sept. 8, 2011: The IRS cancelled their longtime contract with the email-backup firm Sonasoft.

June 14, 2011 - June 12, 2014: While Congress requests and subpoenas Lerner's emails over and over, the IRS keps very quiet for three years, not mentioning whether the 2011 hard drive crash deleted any of them. The IRS simply promises again and again, that it will provide all of Lerner's emails.

June 13, 2014: The IRS announces that Lerner's hard drive crash deleted ALL the emails between her and outside agencies such as the White House, from the peiod being investigated.

June 16, 2014: The IRS announces that six other people being investigated, some of whom frequently visited the White House during the period being investigated, also had hard drive crashes, and that their emails are gone too.

Naw, I don't see any reason to suspect a connection between any of these events, do you?

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IRS Fired Email-Archiving Firm After Lerner Crash | The Daily Caller!

IRS CANCELLED Contract with Email-Storage Firm Weeks After Lerner’s Computer Crash

10:28 AM 06/22/2014
Patrick Howley
Political Reporter

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials’ computers allegedly crashed.

The IRS signed a contract with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, California, each year from 2005 to 2010. The company, which partners with Microsoft and counts The New York Times among its clients, claims in its company slogans that it provides “Email Archiving Done Right” and “Point-Click Recovery.” Sonasoft in 2009 tweeted, “If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldn’t you choose them to protect your servers?”

Sonasoft was providing “automatic data processing” services for the IRS throughout the January 2009 to April 2011 period in which Lerner sent her missing emails.

But Sonasoft’s six-year business relationship with the IRS came to an abrupt end at the close of fiscal year 2011, as congressional investigators began looking into the IRS conservative targeting scandal and IRS employees’ computers started crashing left and right.

Sonasoft’s fiscal year 2011 contract with the IRS ended on August 31, 2011. Eight days later, the IRS officially closed out its relationship with Sonasoft in accordance with the federal government’s contract close-out guidelines, which require agencies to fully audit their contracts and to get back any money that wasn’t used by the contractor. Curiously, the IRS de-allocated 36 cents when it closed out its contract with Sonasoft on September 8, 2011.

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.

Little acorn.....

The article SAYS sonasoft had an EMAIL Archive contract from 2005 through 2010....

2010 the contract ended for email, little acorn....(I don't know why you are implying that they ended their email contract with sonasoft right after she got a letter of inquiry from Camp?) sonasoft's contract for archiving the ITS EMAIL ended A YEAR PRIOR to Camp writing his first letter to the IRS.....and her computer crashing. Sonasoft had another contract with them, for "'automatic data processing", which is a separate contract with the irs that does not involve email.

AND NOTE, Camp never introduced a subpoena for her emails back in 2011 when her system supposedly crashed, it was a letter of inquiry, just like Senator Levin's letter of inquiry to the IRS. So basically, Rep. Camp was inquiring with Learner on something like: "why was she focused on a PAC like Karl Rove's as being partisan?" And Senator Levin was inquiring with Learner "why aren't you focusing on PACS like Karl Roves, which could be a partisan group INSTEAD of primarily Charity?"

His subpoena was issued a year ago....not in 2011?

You should not have to twist things in order to make this more of a scandal little acorn....when you all start doing that, then it makes sane people believe, that their actually may not be a there, there......especially if one has to distort the facts on it.

Oh, and their contract ended for their "automatic data processing" (may I repeat, which IS NOT an email contract) , they did not fire them right after the computer crash....

I'd think twice about the Daily Caller, next time around....especially when they are purposely distorting the facts, as they have clear as day done.