IRS Scandal - Lost Emails

[Logan Darklighter]

Amazing that the IRS doesn't have a proper archive system for its emails. But that would take such enormous amounts of taxpayer money that it's a cost-saving measure that they don't. And we should thank them for saving money! 
Uh yeah... about that... 
Reason: The IRS had a contract with an Email back-up company called Sonasoft. In 2009, Sonasoft even sent out a Tweet advertising its work for the IRS.[img]http://cloudfront-media.reason.com/mc/psuderman/2014_06/sonasoft-IRS-tweet.png?h=386&w=650]

More from Reason: 

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said it can’t provide emails sent between 2009 and 2011 that were requested by congressional investigators because of hard drive crashes.
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The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005, according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for “automatic data processing services.” Sonasoft’s motto is “email archiving done right,” and the company lists the IRS as a customer.
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...the company advertises its email archiving solution as “ideal for small and medium businesses, government agencies, school districts, nonprofit organizations using Microsoft’s Exchange Server.” And a document posted on its website describing its services says that its system “archives all email content and so reduces the risk of non-compliance with legal, regulatory and other obligations to preserve critical business content.”

The contract was cancelled a few weeks after Lerner’s computer allegedly crashed and just before other IRS officials’ computers are said to have crashed. 

My. How convenient.