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

From your link....

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Emails considered an "official record" of the IRS couldn't be deleted and, in fact, needed to also have a hard copy filed. Those emails that constitute an official record are ones that are loosely defined under IRS policy as ones that were "[c]reated or received in the transaction of agency business," "appropriate for preservation as evidence of the government's function or activities," or "valuable because of the information they contain". The letter sent to the senators suggests that it was up to the user to determine what emails met those standards. It's not clear if Lerner had any hard copies of important emails.

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So now AT BEST Lerner broke IRS policy by removing and/or not keeping hard copy records of her communications regarding agency business. Clearly stated by IRS policy that emails considered an "official record" of the IRS couldn't be deleted and, in fact, needed to also have a hard copy filed.