I'm sure you've heard by now the IRS claim that it can't hand over Lois Lerner's e-mails for a period of time starting in 2011 because "her computer crashed." I know. Tell me another one.
If this was Nixon and the 18-and-a-half-minute gap, you know the mainstream media would be having a conniption fit over it. But it's a Democrat scandal and the media don't care about those, so we're left to ask these questions ourselves.
Here's mine: With an organization as large and theoretically sophisticated as the federal government, isn't it a fairly simple thing to retrieve archived e-mails from a network server? I realize you can adjust e-mail settings to delete messages from the server once they're downloaded to your computer - and in fact, I use that setting with my hosting company Network Solutions - but an organization of any size whatsoever has to be backing up its data and some secure, off-site location, right? You can't run the risk that crucial information is lost just because of the crash of a single computer.
Unless, of course, they intentionally chose settings that would make the e-mails irretrievable precisely because they knew what they were doing was illegal, and they didn't want to run the risk of having the e-mails subpoenaed as part of a congressional investigation.
I seem to recall 2011 was the year the House flipped to Republican control. You don't suppose someone at the IRS said, "Oh s---, if these e-mails ever get subpoenaed . . ."
But those of you who are more IT-savvy than I am, help me out. Is it really plausible that these e-mails are lost and there's no way the government can get them back? Educate us all.
