"How convenient" is exactly what I thought when I read that story a couple of days ago.

It's either utter hogwash or utter incompetence i.e. no regular backups, no attempt at forensic data recovery from a "failed" drive etc.

If they want to maintain that story I imagine we'll start hearing backslappers such as:

1. There is no regular backup policy at that department

2. That department does not use Exchange or some other centralized/managed mail store

3. Per rigid IRS policy, once her hard drive was deemed to have failed it was degaussed and shredded prior to disposal

It's one way to turn a political issue into a technical issue - which politicians will do every time, if they can.

Makes me wonder how anything can live in the Potomac - the bottom of that river must be paved with hard drives and backup tape cartridges.

>Hope they subpoena some I.T. managers to break through this hogwash
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>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-lost-lois-lerners-emails-in-tea-party-probe/