On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:25 PM, PeterK <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> House federal records plan would prevent repeat of IRS email scandal -
> Washington Times
>
> From destroyed hard drives at the IRS
> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/internal-revenue-service/> to bogus
> email accounts at the EPA
> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/environmental-protection-agency/>,
> agency record-keeping scandals have stymied congressional investigations
> and are fueling calls for beefed-up enforcement of the federal records laws
> to prevent future tampering with critical evidence.
>
> A House committee on Thursday approved measures that would require federal
> agencies to preserve instant messages and fire workers who destroy records
> — concerns that have come to light in the ongoing IRS
> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/internal-revenue-service/>
> targeting
> scandal centered on former top official Lois G. Lerner
> <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/lois-g-lerner/>.
>
> Source:
>
> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/24/house-federal-records-plan-would-prevent-repeat-of/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
>
>
This is rich... the House is gonna "fire workers who destroy records".

How about we ask those same House members to write down the definition of a
record in the Federal arena?

If they want a "plan to prevent a repeat" they better find a way to
appropriate some SERIOUS funds to develop policies, foster practices,
establish procedures, perform training, and audit compliance.

Multiply that by the number of Agencies and offices across the country and
in some instances, AROUND THE WORLD, they better find A LOT of MONEY!!!

And, if they look at what has happened with things like FBI's "Virtual Case
File" and NARA's "Electronic Records Archive" and countless Agencies failed
e-mail system deployments... they better think LONG and HARD about turning
this over to consultants and contractors, unless they have an extremely
tight scope and hard and fast budgets!!! Things like this tend to 'grow
legs' and get out of control.

Larry
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