There are times when I am astonished at the stories the administration will tell. As an IT guy who has a basic understanding of email, I look at the story of Lois Lerner's lost emails on account of a hard drive crash as an obvious lie. We use Exchange at my work. My email is not on my computer, it is on the Exchange server. It is also in the inbox to whomever it was sent. So, unless Ms. Lerner only sent email to herself, one hard drive failure can't destroy any of her emails. Our server has multiple backups in case of failure and the data is backed up to tapes should the building burn down. I was doing this sort of backup 16 years ago, which makes it unbelievable that the IRS isn't doing it today. How many hard drives, servers, and offsite tape backups would have to be destroyed or fail to get rid of Ms. Lerner's emails? A lot more than the one that is claimed. This story is even worse since most people must see that it doesn't make sense. Your average smartphone user can access email on the phone, or on the computer, or even on a tablet. Most know that if their computer crashes, they haven't just lost all their emails.
If these emails really have been lost, it is because someone chose to lose them. That would be a crime. Why commit a crime to hold back these emails? Much like Nixon's tapes, there is something in those emails the administration or the IRS doesn't want revealed. If this same thing happened in a Republican administration, the media would be howling day and night. This cover-up is so obvious as to insult the intelligence of anyone with even a moderate amount of tech savvy.
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