Ruh roh IRS required by law to print out Lois Lerner's emails

[tinydancer]

Another broken law in this sorry saga. No doubt about it. The IRS is guilty as charged and must be scared shitless to keep on breaking laws.

So who do you think they're covering for? What are they hiding?

The Internal Revenue Service is required by federal law to keep records of all agency emails and to print out hard copies of the emails to make sure they get saved in the event of a computer glitch.

The IRS recently claimed that it lost 24,000 of 67,000 emails that ex-official Lois Lerner sent between 2009 and 2011, due to a computer crash.

The IRS, which agreed to turn over all of Lerner’s emails to the House Committee on Ways and Means, specifically lost emails Lerner sent to other Obama administration agencies and the White House. Lerner is a major figure in the targeting scandal that has hit the IRS




“Please note that maintaining a copy of an email or its attachments within the IRS email MS Outlook application does not meet the requirements of maintaining an official record,” the IRS stated. “Therefore, print and file email and its attachments if they are either permanent records or if they relate to a specific case.”

Losing all evidence of agency emails, therefore, is a violation of federal law.


IRS required by law to print out emails for record-keeping | The Daily Caller

EDIT TO ADD NOTICE:

This is not an IRS guideline or suggestion or hint. It is a Federal Law.

1.10.3.2.3 (07-08-2011)
Emails as Possible Federal Records

All federal employees and federal contractors are required by law to preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency. Records must be properly stored and preserved, available for retrieval and subject to appropriate approved disposition schedules.

The Federal Records Act applies to email records just as it does to records you create using other media. 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

If you create or receive email messages during the course of your daily work, you are responsible for ensuring that you manage them properly. The Treasury Department’s current email policy requires emails and attachments that meet the definition of a federal record be added to the organization’s files by printing them (including the essential transmission data) and filing them with related paper records. If transmission and receipt data are not printed by the email system, annotate the paper copy. More information on IRS records management requirements is available at http://erc.web.irs.gov/Displayanswers/Question.asp?FolderID=4&CategoryID=5 or see the Records Management Handbook, IRM 1.15.1 http://publish.no.irs.gov/IRM/P01/PDF/31421A03.PDF).

An email determined to be a federal record may eventually be considered as having historical value by the National Archivist prior to disposal. Therefore, ensure that all your communications are professional in tone.

Please note that maintaining a copy of an email or its attachments within the IRS email MS Outlook application does not meet the requirements of maintaining an official record. Therefore, print and file email and its attachments if they are either permanent records or if they relate to a specific case.



Internal Revenue Manual - 1.10.3 Standards for Using Email

 

[HenryBHough]

Tell us all again why government is calling for bids on two sets of gigantic brass quotation marks. Could it be to place before and after the word "Justice" on the sign on the front of their building?

 

[Little-Acorn]

Just means that the Democrats decided the consequences for whatever they're concealing, would be much worse than the consequences for breaking the law about printing out all emails.

 

[Mr. H.]

Report: Lois Lerner's Hard Drive Has Been "Thrown Away" - Katie Pavlich

 

[deltex1]

Another broken law in this sorry saga. No doubt about it. The IRS is guilty as charged and must be scared shitless to keep on breaking laws.

So who do you think they're covering for? What are they hiding?

The Internal Revenue Service is required by federal law to keep records of all agency emails and to print out hard copies of the emails to make sure they get saved in the event of a computer glitch.

The IRS recently claimed that it lost 24,000 of 67,000 emails that ex-official Lois Lerner sent between 2009 and 2011, due to a computer crash.

The IRS, which agreed to turn over all of Lerner’s emails to the House Committee on Ways and Means, specifically lost emails Lerner sent to other Obama administration agencies and the White House. Lerner is a major figure in the targeting scandal that has hit the IRS




“Please note that maintaining a copy of an email or its attachments within the IRS email MS Outlook application does not meet the requirements of maintaining an official record,” the IRS stated. “Therefore, print and file email and its attachments if they are either permanent records or if they relate to a specific case.”

Losing all evidence of agency emails, therefore, is a violation of federal law.


IRS required by law to print out emails for record-keeping | The Daily Caller

Paper copies are subject to hungry dog syndrome.

 

[Zander]

It's a disgrace. These IRS pricks have way too much power.

 

[depotoo]

Just means that the Democrats decided the consequences for whatever they're concealing, would be much worse than the consequences for breaking the law about printing out all emails.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

 

[The Rabbi]

Just means that the Democrats decided the consequences for whatever they're concealing, would be much worse than the consequences for breaking the law about printing out all emails.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Who is going to prosecute someone for not keeping paper copies? Eric Holder's Justice Dept? Dream on. Remember, not a smidgeon of corruption.

 

[depotoo]

Just means that the Democrats decided the consequences for whatever they're concealing, would be much worse than the consequences for breaking the law about printing out all emails.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Who is going to prosecute someone for not keeping paper copies? Eric Holder's Justice Dept? Dream on. Remember, not a smidgeon of corruption.

That's the unfortunate reality in all this.

 

[Zander]

 

[TemplarKormac]

The IRS violated federal law:

36 CFR 1222.34 - How must agencies maintain records?

§ 1222.34 How must agencies maintain records?

Agencies must implement a records maintenance program so that complete records are filed or otherwise identified and preserved, records can be readily found when needed, and permanent and temporary records are physically segregated from each other or, for electronic records, segregable. Agency records maintenance programs must:

(a) Institute procedures for organizing and storing records;

(b) Maintain electronic, audiovisual and cartographic, and microform records in accordance with 36 CFR parts 1236, 1237, and 1238 of this subchapter, respectively;

(c) Assign responsibilities for maintenance of records in all formats within each agency component, including designation of the officials that are responsible for maintenance and disposition of electronic records and management of automated systems used for recordkeeping;

(d) Institute reference and retrieval procedures and controls that:

(1) Facilitate the finding, charging out, and refiling of records, including safeguards against loss during transit; and

(2) Ensure that access to electronic records minimizes the risk of unauthorized additions, deletions, or alterations;

(e) Issue appropriate instructions to all agency employees on handling and protecting records;

(f) Maintain records and nonrecord materials separately, in accordance with § 1222.16;

(g) Maintain personal files separately from records in accordance with § 1222.20; and

(h) Comply with 36 CFR parts 1232 and 1234 of this subchapter when storing records in a records facility.

36 CFR 1222.34 - How must agencies maintain records? | LII / Legal Information Institute

44 U.S. Code § 3101 - Records management by agency heads; general duties

The head of each Federal agency shall make and preserve records containing adequate and proper documentation of the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the agency and designed to furnish the information necessary to protect the legal and financial rights of the Government and of persons directly affected by the agency’s activities.

44 U.S. Code § 3101 - Records management by agency heads; general duties | LII / Legal Information Institute

 

[deltex1]

Now we know where the smidgens went.

 

[tinydancer]

Just means that the Democrats decided the consequences for whatever they're concealing, would be much worse than the consequences for breaking the law about printing out all emails.

Exactly. This goes to the White House for certain now. Check this out. Issa is zeroing in.

Darrell Issa Calls On White House Attorney to Testify On IRS Email Scandal


She got a whopper of a promotion this year. From the article:

Issa wrote a letter to O’Connor, who worked at the IRS in the first months of its conservative targeting scandal in 2013 and was promoted to the White House earlier this year, asking her to appear alongside IRS commissioner John Koskinen at Tuesday’s Oversight hearing. Issa made clear that he thinks O’Connor “knew or should have known” that ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails were missing.



Issa Calls White House Attorney To Testify On IRS Scandal | The Daily Caller

 

[eagle1462010]

Since when have they cared about following the law?

They have openly violated the law already, and I don't see any going to jail for doing so.

The Feds believe they are above the law, or they are the law........

I believe in a flat tax system. Send in your return on a post card and FIRE about 75% of the IRS personnel to end these abuses. This is not the first time they have targeted tax payers in their history.

Let them find jobs in the private world then.

 

[Ibentoken]

Isn't the IRS the agency that's enforcing collections for Obamacare?

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[HenryBHough]

Democrat bureaucrats are above the law.

Period.

Words you'll never hear from Our Kenyan President because they are true and we all know about things he says just before he spits outzzzzzzz: "Period".

 

[mamooth]

No, the IRS is not required to print out every email. That's insane.

Jesus H. on a pogo stick, the ODS afflicted are stupid. Each time I think they can't possibly be as stupid as they appear, they work extra hard to prove that they are.

 

[HenryBHough]

One could spend a lot of time trying to determining whether or not The IRS is required to print anything. Actually, a waste of all that time because even if it's an absolute requirement it's OK to ignore because they're part of the most constitution-hating regime in history. Law simply does not apply and you're a fool to think otherwise.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

IRS employee regulations are not "laws".