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Way, is there anyone elses hard drive that is missing? is there anyone elses emails that were going to have trouble recovering of the 80 people we are investigating at the irs? only then did the irs commissioner find out there were six other peoples hard drives that had been damaged and unrecoverable. so i would think if i were running the investigation, those would be natural follow-up questions you would ask. i think its gross inat the expense. >> i guess i mean what are the odds that the key ...

Disk without informing the national archives, they violated the law. the national archives has now opened an investigation completely separate from ours into this series of wrongful destructions. >> and i have got the letter here from the archives. >> paul webster. >> dated june 17th. okay. was it deliberate or accidental or incompetent? however you want to say it was this deliberate destruction? >> i had a conversation with the archivists. his people train all of government on what to do. if yo...

Two years of lois lerners e-mails and other documents. what kind of coverage did that get? >> lets put this in perspective. absolutely nobody believes that story. everybody believes there is something very bad that went on there. how do they cover it? cbs morning gave it a story. cbs evening news, no coverage. abc morning, no coverage. abc evening news, no coverage. nbc today, no coverage, "nbc nightly news," no coverage. >> did they get to it today? friday, they buried it. by monday, it was eve...

>> are lerners e-mails really gone forever? joining me is text expert, curt the cyber guy simpson. a lot of questions here. youre going to hear more about it this afternoon. can these e-mails be gone forever if theyre on a server? >> how come they dont lose my tax bill? its outrageous to think these are gone forever. i dont think weve seen the end of the story. i think were seeing the beginning of it. the drive that was like this that would have been on her desktop -- >> this is the hard drive? ...

Especially when six other higher ups had magically their e-mail crash? >> maybe when he said there is not a smidgen of corruption, maybe he meant all the evidence is gone. >> yeah. >> because it is. >> oh, we dont have that, because lois lerner, she took the fifth. so we dont have any information. we now cant find the specific e-mails in the time frame we really want to deal with as all americans deserve the right information and the truth, cant get it. the technical department there who -- crim...

Disk without informing the national archives, they violated the law. the national archives has now opened an investigation completely separate from ours into this series of wrongful destructions. >> and i have got the letter here from the archives. >> paul webster. >> dated june 17th. okay. was it deliberate or accidental or incompetent? however you want to say it was this deliberate destruction? >> i had a conversation with the archivists. his people train all of government on what to do. if yo...

Of the office as it relates to conservatives being targeted prior to an election season. this should matter for everybody, whether youre conservative or not because if your politics are being used and held against you by the federal government in one of their departments, you would just want to know. so theyre looking for these e-mails. but guess what? youre not going to find them because the hard drive was destroyed, or recycled or thrown out. >> you had darrell issa on the program and he was t...

Did that meeting produce one? do we know that? >> reporter: to the republican leaders, it certainly did not. they came out and said they learned very little from the president. theyre expecting that strategy. they did not get that at yesterdays meeting. bill: thank you, ed. ed henry will watch for secretary hagel at the white house this hour. thank you for the information there. martha: significant information. and also this big story today that we are all over. the irs saying that it lost two y...

Redact the 6103 information. it was the on the reason they couldnt immediately give them to congress. our recourse now? we have got to explore that with chairman issa. i know hes furious about this. the chairman has issued a subpoena for the actual hard drives themselves. martha: they are stone warming you. short of whose going to do it? eric holder is going to send somebody in there and say i want you to turn over these hard drives now. well investigate them. well see the issues you were subpoe...

Do you buy this even a ity bitty. the irs claims two years critical two years. emails lost. computer crash information gone for good is that possible or plain bologna. computer expert joins us. okay, david, can i tell you that its awfully convenient that these emails are missing. so, is it possible? >> i mean, is it possible? yes. when it comes to todays computer and technology, its very unlikely. we have backups for the backups and hard drives to take sure these types of data losses dont occur ...