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Try that one with the IRS and see how it works out...

I'd not call somebody breaking campaign laws, numerous IRS codes dealing with security, records keeping, and who knows what else a tempest in a teapot. As a conservative who was on the crosshairs of the IRS in this same timeframe, with EVERY financial record I made over years gone through with a fine toothed comb, an exam that cost me over $20,000 in accountant fees alone, a year and a half of sleepless nights, ulcers and through it all I knew that I had done nothing wrong at all. But "this" person can sit at a microphone and say "I'll plead the 5th", and we are supposed to say "OK, nothing here" and go on down the road???? A Tempest in a teapot???

A supervisor in one of the strongest arms of government, one that can ruin a persons life, put them in jail, confiscate their property, bank accounts and pay, all WITHOUT ever going before a judge???

I'm completely confused by your statement. I know people are saying that Bill Clinton was impeached and still walked, but Bill did not use the IRS and FBI to persecute his enemies, he only made out in the Oval Office. Richard Nixon resigned because he was caught with his fingers in the cookie jar using governmental agencies to harass his enemies - sound familiar. Learner conveniently "lost" 2 years of emails and now it appears she discovered another method of interdepartmental communication that did not leave a trail of evidence, which when she discovered this exclaimed "Goodie!".

Richard Nixon lost 18 minutes of tape, not two years. Richard Nixon was snagged by a recording system that was installed for his own use and was not a mandated records system. Lois Lerner appears to have circumvented a system that existed to insure that there would be a trail of records. A system created to expressly insure that what occurred would not happen and somehow it wasn't limited to one computer - 6 other people all directly involved in this mess all experienced the same failure within a day or two of each other. One computer might happen, a couple computers in different offices might fail, but 6 computers, all on the desks of people emailing each other in the same division all had the same failure?? No Way!

In addition to the odd group failure of these computers, it seems that they all also did not perform the required back ups to the central computer. I'm NOT a IT person, but my own home network makes weekly backs of every computer to a networks storage device. All automatically unless I disable it on a computer. This requires a knowledgeable act. It cannot be done by accident. If I can do this at home, don't it seem right that the IRS could manage to do the same thing? And if Learner turned off her legally mandated backups on her computer and 6 of her close work partners all did the same thing, don't you think it might just be more than a tempest in a teapot?