It looks like the Internal Revenue Service was trying to make sure none of its e-mails went missing. Well, that is, at least until right around the time Lois Lerner’s computer allegedly crashed.
The IRS cancelled its contract with e-mail-archiving company Sonasoft after it had spent six years cataloging the organizations e-mails, reports The Daily Caller. This abrupt decision came only weeks following the hard drive crash that allegedly eliminated ex-official Lois Lerner’s e-mails between 2009 and 2011.
According to its website, Sonasoft serves up “e-mail archiving done right.” In 2009, the company even confirmed its relationship with the IRS via social media, tweeting, “If the IRS uses Sonasoft products to backup their servers why wouldn’t you choose them to protect your servers?”
The IRS got rid of Sonasoft at the end of August in 2011, just when congressional investigators began scrutinizing the IRS about the targeting of conservative non-profits. On June 15 of that year, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Dave Camp demanded answers about the organization’s treatment of Tea Party groups. Ten days later, Lerner’s computer self-destructed.
However, if Sonasoft was adequately providing “automatic data processing” for the organization during the time period Lerner’s lost e-mails were sent and therefore did indeed archive said e-mails, don’t the missing messages exist somewhere in the universe from where they can be retrieved?
That’s probably a question IRS officials don’t want the answer to.
