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

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The hard drive will only contain data that was stored on her computer but never left via email.

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Not true at all.

They use the same setup we use here at my office. They use an Exchange server with people having their mailbox on the server and an archive file (PST) on their computer. Once their mailbox hits Exchange's default 500MB limit, an automatic message is generated from the server to the user telling them they are over the limit.

User calls the helpdesk, helpdesk walks them through moving enough emails to the archive file that it brings their Exchange mailbox below te 500MB limit.

So yes, it's quite plausible that when her drive crashed she lost all of her old emails. The direction of focus should now be on:

1. Does the IRS do backups of their mail server? If so, how long do they keep those backups?

2. Was Lerner's computer brought in at any time between 2009 and the time the HDD crashed to be backed up and re-imaged?

3. Does the IRS mail server logs go back to 2009? If so, pull the records for whom she emailed and who sent email to her from the DOJ and WH then go subpoena those peoples' emails.

4. Does the IRS use a virtual desktop environment? If so, do they have backups of the user VM's? If so, how far back do they go?

5. Hard copies of all of her DOJ and WH correspondences should have been made and kept. Where are they?

6. Carter Hull's testimony implicated William Wilkins. What's the status of his emails?