[tedw]

The IRS loses the emails which could prove the IRS was targeting Conservative groups. It is more than just "convenient".

What would happen to you if the IRS was auditing you and you conveniently lost your tax records?

This is something that Darrell Issa has the power to go after and should. Heads should roll.

Call Darrell Issa's office and ask then to pursue the lost email. If they can't get it from the sender they should go after the all the potential recepients: Holder et. al.

[Huskrrrr]

My dog ate it.

[theoldmarine]

If you claimed you lost your tax records they would file an arbitrary return for you and take everything you have. As David Brat said recently, “the government has a monopoly on violence.”

[FlingWingFlyer]

Somebody needs to go to prison for destroying these emails. A crime has been committed here.

[Huskrrrr]

Somewhere there is a record of the emails, unless everyone involved destroyed their hard drives.

[mojito]

This is clearly obstruction, and it was ordered from the WH.

Another blatantly criminal act from a blatantly criminal regime.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Agreed.

Dems absolutely appear to be “losing” her emails to cover something big up.

This is not just a distraction. In my opinion.

[dfwgator]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You think I just tell ‘em I lost all those tax records when I had a computer crash?

[P-Marlowe]

Never underestimate government incompetence, but how convenient

Never underestimate government incompetence CORRUPTION, but how convenient

There, fixed it.

[Belteshazzar]

Lois Lerner needs to go to jail along with whichever of her enablers are still there at the IRS drawing paychecks. After that there needs to be a house cleaning of every other federal agency.

[blueunicorn6]

Let’s lose their paychecks!

[NEWwoman]

Lost e-mails? No problem. I’m sure the NSA has a copy. ;)

[P-Marlowe]

Gee, Mr. IRS auditor. The dog ate my receipts.

[nhwingut]

The problem with this excuse is that it makes them look even guiltier. Even the KOS clowns aren’t buying this crap. There are too many IT people in this country who can succinctly explain things like servers, redundancy, backups, offsite storage, and the fact that a so-called computer “crash” doesn’t cause one to lose emails, especially only certain ones - like those to the White House. Total joke.

[cripplecreek]

BS the IRS Commissioner testified last month that the emails were archived.

[thesharkboy]

A desperate lie to cover up something really bad. Everybody (except probably for high-ranking members of the eGOP) knows that these emails were backed up and saved in many, many places.

[stanne]

The WSJ prints this on a Saturday

A Saturday in the summer

It’s actually sat and sun together.

No one reads this

[Cheerio]

This is so much BS it makes one's head almost explode!!!

First of all most email servers have multiple backups perhaps starting with a RAID 10 configuration, and secondly there is more than likely a snapshot taken weekly or on some frequency and stored elsewhere as an archive.

THIRDLY, Lois Learner was sending and receiving emails from Congress and other agencies, probably some private PACS. Is the Congress so stupid as to not go after the copy of Lois Learner's email that is residing on those NON-IRS servers? Just because the IRS server was wiped out (HIGHLY DOUBTFUL) the receipient of her email has a copy. GOOD GRIEF, even laymen can understand this.

[what's up]

The IRS scandal is the same stuff that Nixon was going to be impeached for.

The left wing media can’t risk the public understanding the parallel so they refuse to cover it.

[Kenny]

Hold someone accountable! Until we stop letting these creeps hide behind their giant bureaucracy they will keep breaking the law until we have no law.