Series-2-hard-drive-shredder

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen will appear before the House Judiciary Committee to defend himself against impeachment charges following his role in the Lois Lerner targeting scandal.

 

Koskinen was appointed to lead the IRS after promising to bring transparency and openness to the embattled agency. He has failed.

Lois Lerner’s hard drive met its end in the amoral maw of an AMERI-SHRED AMS-750 HD shredder, according to testimony submitted last year by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

 

In 2011, after an IRS-contracted Hewlett Packard technician serviced Lerner’s laptop and determined the hard drive “more than likely crashed due to an impact of some sort,” and after a different technician in the IRS Criminal Investigation Division noted there was “some scoring on the top platter of the drive,” the hard drive made its way to a recycling facility in Florida operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The testimony states:

“We determined by obtaining the certificate of destruction dated April 16, 2012, interviews with the facility manager, and a search of the facility, that this shipment of hard drives was destroyed using an AMERI-SHRED AMS-750HD shredder. TIGTA agents observed the shredder in operation and noted that the shredder cut the inserted hard drives into quarter-sized pieces, and according to the facility manager, those pieces are then sold for scrap.”

Video footage of the 7.5 horsepower, 2,700-lb. shredder in action can be found here