Don't think the "we're your overlords and we say Lois's hard drive crashed" line is gonna hold water

Looking more like a blatant coverup all the time:

The IRS has “no excuses” for the latest twist in the saga of its missing emails, says an expert in electronic discovery.

“Whether it’s incompetence or deliberate obstruction, the IRS has no excuses for having handled this so poorly,” said Bruce Webster, partner at Provo, Utah-based IT consulting and expert witness firm Ironwood Experts.

House investigators said Tuesday that a hard drive belonging to Lois Lerner, the former agency official at the center of the department’s targeting scandal, was just “scratched,” not irreparably damaged. The IRS had described the hard drive’s data as “unrecoverable.”

The hard drive, which was recycled, contained roughly two years of missing emails seen as relevant to the investigation into the scandal.

Data, however, can be easily retrieved from scratched drives, according to Webster. “This happens all the time,” he told FoxNews.com. “There are little storefront companies in just about every major city that can do this and there are forensic companies that can restore files and even do higher end recovery of data.”

Webster explained that, even when a drive’s file directory is damaged or destroyed, information still can be recovered from the magnetic disk where data is stored, known as a drive platter.

Maybe someday the United States of America, with its reverence for justice and freedom, can be restored and the IRS can be abolished and Lois Lerner can be frog-marched on worldwide television to the hoosegow.