[IChing]

One has to expect that the emails can and therefore, with pressure brought by congress and/or a special prosecutor, will be "found." So, given the likelihood that they contain a smoking gun, this would in a remotely sane society allow us to expect Obama's ouster. Notice I said remotely sane society....

[Jack Hammer]

The emails have all been deliberately deleted along with all back-ups.

Criminal, but that’s the Obama administration in a nutshell.

[leprechaun9]

Can someone draw an organization chart of where all the members of the administration whose emails have been lost are situated? Have they identified who received the Lerner e-mails?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I hereby would like to exercise my Fifth Amendment rights, for fear that I might incriminate myself...and besides that, my computer crashed.

The dog ate my e-mails.

[ballplayer]

Sorry folks,according to the news today the hard drive and the back up tapes have been RECYCLED according to government protocol,they are gone forever,this is definitely the perfect crime administration!

[ryan71]

Ridiculous claims such as these mean only one thing; this road leads directly back to the “president”.

[rdcbn]

Now, it seems there are no problems with retrieving even the lowliest IRS employees emails.

It’s just the top IRS administrators and political appointees who have the problem.

Naturally, in any huge multi billion dollar formal organization with rigid record keeping and document preservation regulations with stiff penalties for loss of data, the officers of the organization who are the equivalent of the CEO, President, Vice President ect are given tinniest data storage allocations, because they are just not important enough.

Right .....

[don-o]

incoming White House press secretary Josh Earnest indignantly fired back, “I think it’s entirely reasonable. And it’s fact. You’ve never heard of a computer crashing before?”

Only question is, is Josh THAT stupid or does he think we are that stupid? Both could apply, I guess.