[Red Steel]

Id like to know the make and model of lerners laptop. Bet the system was about brand new at the time. She was high level. DC bureaucrats dont go without. They get the best of the best. That would show them go be liars again.

Right, highly likely Lerner had new up-to-date hardware.

Personally, I've had a dozen hard drives or so going back to about 1991 and only 1` has crashed. Usually I get a new 'puter before hard drive failure.

[Solson]

$1.8B IT budget and they CHOSE to not spend $20-30M on archival?????

[Norm Lenhart]

I have had comps since the Amiga days. In that time I lost 3. 2 of the same model back to back while installing Win7 on them. Bought them together and they fried immediately one after the other. Obviously a bad production batch.

The original crash that prompted the whole thing lost me a lot of music/hobby. Data was there, just too much grief to retrieve it.

Today my ‘hobby’ has a regular and an SSD for backup. A hobby. To emphasize, a HOBBY.

And the freaking IRS does not have a backup? “Liberals please....”