[SeekAndFind]

Also see here:

IRS Source: Lerner’s Hard Drive Likely Destroyed. In other words, the e-mails are likely GONE FOREVER.

[MeshugeMikey]

destruction of evidence???

[VeniVidiVici]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Major crimes have been committed.

[Genoa]

I’ll never believe that it all hinges on the status of one hard drive.

[Logical me]

Issa might as well close down the investigation. The communists Democrats hold on America it is impossible to prosecute corruption. America may never recover.

[Paine in the Neck]

It can succeed only if those looking for the emails are incompetent. The emails had to have been transmitted to a recipient. There’s one place to look. The emails would have had to transit at least one server. There’s another place to look. The federal records laws require hard copy. There’s another place to look.

Start subpoenaing IRS IT people. Put them under oath. Break the IT people and they’ll roll on the political cockroaches.

[cripplecreek]

So did the hard drives of all the email recipients crash as well?

[SecondAmendment]

Sen. Hatch's statements prove that the D.C. Republicans are but junior members of the Beltway Mafia.

Any large organization has multiple backups of e-mails, etc on different servers, but the Republicans are instead giving the Dem's cover for CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.

[molson209]

This will go nowhere ,The Criminals are in Charge and if the Tea Party lawyers go after all the agencies Lerner sent emails to , hard drives at each one will also be destroyed

[dirtboy]

So the IRS is telling us they don’t have incremental backups of their email server? That’s not what we were told a few months ago.

[william clark]

The key difference is that Nixon didn’t have the major news outlets covering for him.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The IRS is lying and everyone involved ought to go to prison. If those emails don’t exist, it is because someone went into MULTIPLE servers and deliberately erased them.

[fwdude]

So, the dog that “ate Lois’s homework” has been euthanized and cremated?

Such despicable corruption.

[The Great RJ]

By federal law e-mails have to be preserved in case of any criminal wrong doing. Any private company under federal investigation that just “happened” to destroy a hard drive that contained possible evidence would be in big trouble and charges of obstruction of justice would be flying. With the IRS and this corrupt administration NOTHING will happen. The purported computer crash and destruction of a hard drive that just happened when Lois Lerner was being investigated is just too convenient to be just a coincidence. I would bet that hard drive had correspondence directly with high ups in the White House directing actions against Tea Party groups. There is ample evidence that Democrat members of Congress also illegally had heir hands on these IRS investigations, yet nothing will be done there either. Of course the media will give no time to this story and just parrot whatever their White House manipulators say. Our country has become a banana republic run by a tin horn dictator.

[El Cid]

When the Nation's Media serves as the Praetorian Guard -- we are pretty much stuck with our Caligulas.

The Television and Newsprint media are corrupt to the core.

[RIghtwardHo]

May? Will.

[kevkrom]

IRS Source: Lerner’s Hard Drive Likely Destroyed. In other words, the e-mails are likely GONE FOREVER.

Bull. ****.

Emails aren't stored on computer hard drives - copies, perhaps, but the server still is the master copy. A single computer's hard drive is irrelevant in an enterprise system.

[blueunicorn6]

The news organizations are going to be all over this. If their checks from the Democrats bounce.

[rarestia]

Bull excrement! There’s literally no way these emails are “gone forever.” They want us to think that, but it’s just not true. Every corporation in the country is required to maintain email archives among others. The government is no different, esp. after 8 years of Bush, you KNOW they put archives up everywhere to try to catch Bush and his cabal in some sort of scandal.

[Hoffer Rand]

If you believe the only place these emails were stored was on Lerner’s HD, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.