This will undoubtedly affect a lot of pending Criminal and Civil cases for tax evasion and underreporting of income, etc.
All a bright defense attorney has to do is to make an allegation that exculpatory evidence was included in some inter office e-mails and issue a subpoena for e-mails between Lois Lerner (or any of the other conspirators whose hard drives have conveniently disappeared) and any other IRS employee or investigator regarding their client and when it comes back that the IRS destroyed that alleged evidence, the case may have to be dismissed.
They can’t turn around and say that there never was any such communication, because they can’t find the documents to prove it and instead of just saying they can’t find something, they will have to admit that if there was such exculpatory evidence, that it has been destroyed.
Let the depositions begin.
As you briefly describe, the implications of this are simply massive. The Speaker of the House, the Senate Minority Leader and every GOP member of the House and Senate should appear on the steps of Congress today for a national press conference to decry the lawlessness of this POTUS and his administration ..... oh, wait ....
