Total nonsense.
The very notion that the IRS of all agencies would never do backups (daily, weekly, monthly, offsite, and archives), would not have a disaster recovery/business continuity plan that MANDATED full restoration of their data environment, would not have their mail servers clustered, and would not have redundant clusters, is laughable. Not only that, but as others here note, those emails aren’t just in Lerner’s Outbox. They’re also in the Inboxes of all the people she sent them to.
The ONLY plausible explanation if they are indeed “lost” is an orchestrated, high-level conspiracy. Flunkies in IT are not going to have the passwords to do this, it would take Big Shots - high level managers, probably off-site. So, this is not a super-duper high-tech, tin-foil hat alien spaceship type conspiracy, but the old-fashioned kind of gritty, dirty conspiracy that drug dealers and Mafia members participate in. You know, the kind that went on in the Nixon White House
BEFORE HE WAS THREATENED WITH IMPEACHMENT AND RESIGNED SOON AFTER.
So, WHO in the Democratic party is statesman or stateswoman enough to take the “long walk” to the White House????