[Billthedrill]

“The Federal Records Act applies to email records just as it does to records you create using other media,” according to the IRS. “Emails are records when they are: Created or received in the transaction of agency business; Appropriate for preservation as evidence of the government’s function and activities; or Valuable because of the information they contain.”

Oops. Now we have the official policy, and it doesn't sound good for the poor unfortunate victims of a fantastically unlikely series of hard drive failures. Obstructing justice and altering evidence are crimes.

[kevkrom]

I think this is one of those cases where the cover-up isn’t actually worse than the crime, but that may be the most we can get them on. Kind of like nabbing Capone with tax evasion.