Daily Caller -- 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.
Blog author's comments - Holding those in power responsible when they break the law must happen. The IRS official Lois Learner refuses to testify before congress, her emails disappear; the IRS cancels their contract with Sonasoft, the company saving their emails, it’s all just one big mistake and they are all innocent?
For all this to happen I would guess this goes all the way to the White House. But Lerner knows the AG Eric Holder won’t go after her, that is why she won’t talk to Congress. All the criminals involved in the Obama administration believe they have gotten away with their crime against the American people.
Obama’s assertion that there was “not even a smidgeon of corruption” in the IRS’ attacks on right-wing groups does not reassure me. Did anyone believe him aside from the far leftists? Obama has swept this under the rug just like all the other scandals within his administration.
The now ex-IRS official Lois Lerner's hard drive has been recycled, making it likely that many emails sent to and from Lerner may never be recovered. But, if we are to believe their story about the missing emails someone has to have a copy of a Lerner email that says to her head underlings, "go after the Tea Party groups to keep them on the sidelines for this 2012 election cycle."
Lerner wouldn’t have pleaded the Fifth at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate whether the IRS was targeting nonprofit conservative groups, a scandal that was exposed in 2013, unless she had reason to believe that there was real illegality and it would be tied to her. Below is what she really meant when she stood and took the oath at the House Oversight hearing.
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