For those who have never experienced the pleasures of electronic discovery, 30,000 emails ought to take one person about 3 months, or 50 folks about a couple of days to screen and tag. Long email strings are a bit slower, but proper electronic sorting can offset that.
And there is the rub. It all depends on the search strings they decide to use.Like with Comey and the Weiner emails he went through over the weekend.He decided what specific terms to search for and came up with "nothing".