So Lois Lerner went to extraordinary lengths to make sure that the hard drive was unreadable. The IT guys at the CI division said “bad sectors” make the information unrecoverable, so they took an item that was pertinent to an ongoing investigation and destroyed it.
Got it. The IRS made a paper trail, in only this case, unlike any other typical hard drive failure, that showed that the drive was beyond recovery, and then destroyed it and scattered the remnants to the winds.
“We determined you should not have any evidence based on our own in house investigation, documented our efforts to cover our asses and then destroyed it.”
It was important enough to document in a special way, but not important enough not to destroy.
The arrogance is incredible.
And we still don’t know about the emails of the 6 other persons of interest during that same period.
I’ve been away all day, so I’m at the beginning of this thread and don’t know what’s going to come up next, but I thought you gave a great summary.