[LostInBayport]

Koskinen said the IRS took extra measures to try to retrieve the lost emails. The IRS has said technicians sent Lerner's hard drive to a forensic lab run by the agency's criminal investigations unit. But the information was not recoverable, a technician told her in an Aug. 5, 2011, email.

I was not able to listen to the hearings today. Did anyone in that hearing asking the questions - anyone - ask about how the IRS backs up its emails? The clips I heard made all of them, including Ryan and Camp, sound like idiots going on and on about one hard drive.

I can access my email on my desktop, smartphone or a friend's computer. When I log in I can quickly access and search emails going back years! They are not stored on my flippin' hard drive. Surely the IRS has a similar setup where they can access that witch's account and her old emails. I'm not a computer expert, but this has the ring of farce to it.

[EVO X]

I was not able to listen to the hearings today. Did anyone in that hearing asking the questions - anyone - ask about how the IRS backs up its emails?

The IRS Director confirmed press accounts that their Exchange server backups were being recycled every 6 months until the the Treasury Dept. IG investigation started..

[VerySadAmerican]

The hard drive was sent to a forensics lab.

The hard drive was recycled.

Which is it?

[matt04]

I’m sure they do. It us also possible to destroy the evidence, which I suspect they did. Either that or use a private email service, like Gmail.