[Huskrrrr]

Somewhere there is a record of the emails, unless everyone involved destroyed their hard drives.

[Kackikat]

We are dealing with a bunch of arrogant misfits, who will play games until the last card is dealt and America closes it’s government doors, and is foreclosed upon by China and other lenders.

[Baynative]

Most of the kids at the mall can find them with their phones in a matter of minutes!

[Seaplaner]

Somewhere there is a record of the emails, unless everyone involved destroyed their hard drives.

I would love to hear from some forensic IT experts on this.

[Hulka]

Indeed.

Sender has record and the receiver as well.

[stockpirate]

The government has redundant system backups, they are not on a PC hard drive.

[BerryDingle]

Somewhere there is a record of the emails, unless everyone involved destroyed their hard drives.

Exactly! Tech support could bring those e-mails up in minutes, so could the web administrator(s).

[fhayek]

Someone mentioned in a different thread that there if you ‘lose’ a document that was subpoenaed for evidence in a trial, the opposing side is granted everything that they alleged to be in that document to be true. I imagine that applies to civil cases, but can that apply here as well?