[Scrambler Bob]

They are gone because he took them with him.

[r0tten]

You don’t need Snowden. A $10 an hour Geek Squad tech could do it.

[NormsRevenge]

Over 40 years of experience re:data and storage thereof..

Backups,archived or full, incremental, somewhere multiple copies exist.. Of everything.

To hear the NSA is ‘missing’ it too is ludicrous.

And frankly, insulting.. As a taxpayer alone..

Much less as all patriots

What hath the clueless electorate swallowed?

Locoweed, a bane of the herds

Now the order of the day.

[Vendome]

+1

[a fool in paradise]

Snowden was an Obama loyalist until he felt the administration lied to him about closing Gitmo, etc.

He isn’t looking for that kind of scandal.

[molson209]

A 10 year old with tape holding his glasses together could find

[grayhog]

They are hiding right next to Obama’s bitprth certificate.

[Senator_Blutarski]

I worked over 35 years in IT prior to retirement last year. RAID and mirroring technology, backup technology, redundant systems and system rollover in the event of a failure are the current standards in IT. The IRS is fanatical about record retention.

The emails may be gone, but only because they were destroyed. The emails were not "lost".

I'll wager the emails contain the smoking gun that shows Whitehouse involvement. They were purposely destroyed and there is a small team of IRS IT people who know exactly what happened. The Whitehouse strategy is to run out the clock and play the "plausible deniability" game.

Obama plans to run out the clock on his Presidency and then issue pardons on the last day. In keeping with the Chicago way, they perpetrators of the data losses will be rewarded under the table.

Our only hope is a whistleblower.