IRS Employee Looking for Lois Lerner Emails Was Blind, Literally!

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IRS Employee Looking for Lois Lerner Emails Was Blind, Literally!
February 27th, 2015 - 4:46 pm
by J. Christian Adams

An IRS employee tasked with trying to restore and obtain emails on Lois Lerner’s IRS computer’s hard drive was legally blind.  Stephen Manning, the deputy chief information officer for strategy and modernization at the IRS, submitted an affidavit in the True the Vote vs. IRS litigation regarding the persons and procedures used to attempt to recover Lois Lerner’s hard drive containing emails pertaining to Tea Party targeting.

The affidavit can be read here.  Paragraph 14 describes the educational background of the person searching for data on Lois Lerner’s hard drive:

“According to the Specialist, prior to joining the Internal Revenue Service … training was completed through Lions World Services for the Blind.”



Sources familiar with the litigation confirm to me that the government confirmed that the IRS employee searching for the lost data was legally blind.

It was also revealed today that backup tapes of Lois Lerner’s emails were discovered in an off-site storage facility in West Virginia.  The inspector general of the Treasury Department learned that the tapes existed and drove to West Virginia to retrieve them.  Lawyers for the Justice Department as well as IRS officials have stated under oath or to the federal courts that no such backup tapes existed.  They were “recycled,” DOJ lawyers told the court.

Haven’t we seen this movie before?

Government officials working with leftist organizations decided to target the president’s political opponents just before the president faced reelection.   When the bad behavior is discovered, top officials in the administration and at the Justice Department use their power to hide the truth about the targeting of political opponents.  Officials at the Justice Department fight disclosure of information about the administration’s wrongdoing.  They even deny that tapes exist documenting communications about the wrongdoing by top government officials.  We then learn the stunning news that tapes with all of the information detailing who knew what and when, actually do exist.

Next we’ll hear that the backup tapes in West Virginia have a 17-minute gap.

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The Blind Leading The Find: Lois Lerner’s Hard Drive Was Searched By Legally Blind IRS Employee

Posted By Chuck Ross On 5:47 PM 03/02/2015 In | No Comments



The first IT specialist to inspect the computer hard drive of former IRS exemptions director Lois Lerner was legally blind, according to an affidavit filed last year by Stephen Manning, deputy chief information officer for strategy and modernization at the IRS.

Manning’s July 18, 2014, affidavit pertained to a lawsuit filed by True the Vote against the IRS alleging that Lerner led an effort to target it and similar conservative groups by refusing to grant them tax-exempt status.
 
 

J. Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice attorney writing for PJ Media, flagged the affidavit which provided the educational background of the IT specialist.

“According to the Specialist, prior to joining the Internal Revenue Service, from 2004 to 2005, formal Microsoft training was completed through Lions World Services for the Blind, a certified Microsoft training and testing center,” Manning stated.

The employee, who was hired by the agency in 2007 and has been promoted three times, began working on Lerner’s hard drive on June 13, 2011, according to the affidavit.

 
According to the IRS’s website, the agency has had a partnership with Lions World Services for the Blind — which now goes by the name World Services for the Blind — since 1967.

“The IRS and LWSB provide training programs for various entry level positions. From Collection Representative positions to Computer Programmers. This relationship has resulted in over 1000 persons with disabilities being employed by the IRS. In 2003 forty-six outstanding candidates were trained by Lions World for placement in IRS positions,” reads the agency’s website.

After an unsuccessful attempt to preserve or recover data on Lerner’s hard drive, it was removed and her laptop was replaced with a new one, Manning stated.

The computer was sent back to Lerner and the hard drive was sent to a forensics lab. When the lab could not find any information on the hard drive, it was sent back to the user and network branch. It was then “degaussed,” or wiped clean with a magnet, Manning stated.

 
IRS officials initially claimed that Lerner’s hard drive was irreparably damaged before it was destroyed in 2011.

But last year, investigators with the House Ways and Means Committee interviewed technical experts at the IRS who said that the hard drive was merely scratched and not irreparable. (RELATED: Lois Lerner’s Hard Drive Was ‘Scratched’ Then ‘Shredded’)

“The Committee was told no data was recoverable and the physical drive was recycled and potentially shredded,” then-Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp said just days after Manning’s July 18 affidavit was filed.

“To now learn that the hard drive was only scratched, yet the IRS refused to utilize outside experts to recover the data, raises more questions about potential criminal wrong doing at the IRS,” Camp continued.

Ways and Means’ press release also states that the experts’ claims conflict with a “a July 18, 2014, court filing by the Agency, which stated the data on the hard drive was unrecoverable – including multiple years’ worth of missing emails.”

Manning did not return The Daily Caller’s request for comment.

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