after the irs public report was delivered on june 13 to congress and the treasury, inspector general for tax administration, it was determined last week that several additional custodians may have experienced hard drive failures during the search period. it s not unusual for computers anywhere to fail. especially at the irs in light of the aged equipment irs employees often have to use, in light of the continual cuts in the budget these past four years. since january 1 of this year, for example, over 2,000 irs employees have suffered hard drive crashes. it s important to remember that a hard drive failure does not automatically mean that all or even any emails have been lost or cannot be reconstituted. we are still assessing what effect, if anything, computer failures had on the emails of any of the custodians, although some custodians apparently lost no emails at all. the question is, what emails outside the agency, prior to april 11, 2011, are not in