Turns out some of Lois Lerner’s emails were backed up, but it was too expensive to extract them or something

Jason Chaffetz uncovered the fact that in 2011, after Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashed, that they had six months of email backed up on a so-called ‘disaster recovery’ tape.

But the problem with those tapes were, according to IRS Commissioner Koskinen, that everything is in a big lump on the hard drive and therefore too costly to retrieve one persons emails:

So what good are the tapes then if it costs too much to retrieve emails? What kind of system is that?


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