IRS and the "Lost" Emails

[n david]

This business about the IRS "losing" Lois Lerner, and now 6 other IRS employees, emails is absurd.

First, the IRS expects us to believe that the government which follows every single email, text and phone call can't retrieve these emails?

Or, do they expect us to believe that by some incredible accident ONLY Lerner and these other 6 employees emails were lost. We're talking about the prime suspect in the IRS scandal. I don't know who these 6 other employees are, or what their participation (or lack thereof) was in the scandal.

I've worked in IT previously and it's possible to retrieve data from drives that fail....unless the drive has been maliciously tampered with. If that's the case, then this is more evidence of serious criminal action on part of the IRS and a special prosecutor should be appointed immediately.

I'm surprised the IRS went this route. Obviously one or more of those emails had damning evidence in it, or they wouldn't have gone through the trouble of destroying them, and by doing so, bring even more suspicion on itself.

For anyone to continue to say the IRS isn't a big deal, this should cause them to reconsider.