I love the excuse that there was is no evidence of Lois sabotaging her hard drive because she “tried as hard as she could” to recover, in anyway possible the data on her blown hard drive. So there would be absolutely no reason for her to ever intentionally destroy her data.
Lerner destroyed them and then wanted to confirm with IT that they could not be retrieved. The crash occurred a week after the IRS was alerted by the committee that they were wanted information on the targeting of conservative groups.
Louis tried as hard to recover her emails as OJ tried to find Nicole’s killers.