Its not often you'll find me giving Paul Ryan praise

[exploited]

Sounds sketchy. There should be at least a look at what happened here.

The people making this into a big scandal are pretty scummy. But the posters here refusing to acknowledge that Americans deserve a look into it, or that this is sketchy behavior, need a head check.

[The Dude]

[jimmyz]

[jimmyz]

[Ben Huh]

[The Dude]

[Indy]

[The Dude]

[Indy]

Key point being across the board. This has already come out. In a prior "investigation." IIRC, Issa tried to suppress exculpatory information pointing to this (or something else). Remember that? Issa needs to have his scandal, dammit!

And you're following along with this? Jesus.

[uebermann]

This just makes no sense in the IT world. None. User profiles should be backed up on a daily basis either locally or remotely (or ideally both). This is just common practice by pretty much everyone. I can understand the IRS not having them stored locally due to possible security concerns but I really cannot fathom them not keeping profile backups somewhere. Profile backups have been around for nearly forever. FOR JUST THIS REASON. So people don't lose stuff.

And again, for a hard drive to just go out completely and be totally unrecoverable? That is not very common.