'09 to mid 2011 are poof gone. so lucky. luck keeps on going. rather than the irs being scanned daized by lerner and wanting to protect the american people and pushing for a special prosecutor, lerner has the irs teaming up for her and blaming the crummy hard drive for the missing emails. think about it is that the irs would do for you if the hard drive crashed during audit? defend you? no of course not. they would make your life hell. i'm betting lerner's lawyer will cry the blues saying he wishes the hard drive had not crashed that the lost emails would exonerate her. i don't know but, but i wouldn't buy that there are reports that lerner was emailing back and forth with the fec about the tea party and sharing confidential information. that's against the law. she is a lawyer. she knew it by the way, if i were lerner's lawyer, the mere chance those missing emails may get recovered from some recipient email's account would scare the pants off me. but right now, unless something else surfaces, lois lerner, who took the