re: Ok, walk me through IRS email situation...

The BEST case scenerio for the O Administration is that the IRS is shown to be beyond incompetent, technically impotent, controlled by out of control people who have no regard for following policy, when the policies are hopelessly outdated and irrelevant.

In a nutshell, e-mails were removed from the server due to size limitations, downloaded to the employee's computer, which then crashed, and the hard drive was found to be "irrecovable" and recycled/destroyed, i.e, gotten rid of.

Combine that trail of events with a policy that says "official" e-mail must be printed, with the determination of "official" being made by the person involved in the e-mail.

I think you have two issues here:

1) Did someone outside the IRS tell the IRS to target the groups?

2) Was there a coverup, or was this simply horrible incompetence?

Anyone that has ever dealt with the IRS knows that horrible incompetence is certainly an option?

Did she not print the e-mails because she didn't want a copy of them, or, cause she was too stupid to know she should have?

Did the IRS not try harder to recover the hard drives because they knew there was stuff on there that might have caused issues, or because their crack IT team really thought that if they could not recover it, the data could not be recovered by anyone?

At some point, the GOP needs to turn the attention away from this singluar issue, and instead, focus on a massive, massive rebuild of the IRS.