Lois Lerner's IRS E-Mails - the Saga Continues

"The Internal Revenue Service told Congress Friday it has lost a trove of emails to and from Lois Lerner, a central figure in the agency's Tea Party controversy, sparking outrage from congressional investigators who have been probing the agency for more than a year," reports Fox News.  "The IRS said it cannot locate many of Lerner's emails prior to 2011 because her computer crashed during the summer of that year."

Scott Johnson @ powerlineblog.com posted two comments related to this news story. The first is an anonymous email he received from a Department of Justice lawyer:

I’m a DOJ lawyer, so you obviously cannot use my name or any identifying information. But the idea that a “hard drive crash” somehow destroyed all of Ms. Lerner’s intra-government email correspondence during the period in question [2009-2011] is laughable. Government email servers are backed up every night. So if she actually had a hard drive fail, her emails would be recoverable from the backup. If the backup was somehow also compromised, then we are talking about a conspiracy.

Keep up the good work.

PS.

I’m serious about your keeping any identifying information out of the media. Things are very, very bad.

The second draws a historical connection between Lerner's missing emails and President Richard Nixon's missing 18 1/2 minutes of Oval Office tape recordings:

The charge that Richard Nixon “endeavored” to misuse the IRS made its way into the second of the three articles of impeachment voted against him by the House Judiciary Committee. Nixon’s efforts to misuse the IRS were futile. They went nowhere. Nixon and his henchmen desired the IRS to “screw” their political opponents, but their efforts were a pathetic failure.

Nixon henchman Jack Caulfield astutely complained that the IRS was a “monstrous bureaucracy…dominated and controlled by Democrats.” As we have come to see, Caulfield was on to something...