Let’s think about this. What large employer doesn’t use a server based email system? It doesn’t matter what happened to the drive on her computer, the data resides on the servers. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if the entirety of her working data were on the server.

They will get it away with it because the President & Justice Dept have the practical power/will to protect them. Congress does not have the will to effectively pursue the issue. Corruption is so rampant across the three Federal branches that this specific incidence of merely IRS corruption is trivial. Laws are for the little people.

Note especially that Congress does NOT have subpoena power, under the U.S. Constitution. Subpoena authority is a “judicial” power only — the Constitution quite clearly states that all judicial power of the United States is vested in one Supreme Court.
Historically, Congress simply granted itself subpoena-power … in blatant violation of the Constitution. Nobody cares about that — but Lois Lerner is somehow a really big deal. yawn

Bob

The White house put in a system during the Clinton administration to automatically capture all emails to satisfy the numerous requests from Congress. It happens that IRS was not set up that way, probably because there are too many employees. But would Ms. learner know that there was no capturing of her emails? And surly there would be redundant copies of her emails in email chains on other people’s computers. Lastly, the congress got thousands of Ms. Lerner’s emails. To take as given that evidence would be confined to just the small sample of her emails is really dumb!