[don-o]

Getting things back can be troublesome but email archives are the easiest to get back.

I had said before yesterday's hearing that they needed the head of IT sitting next to Koskinen. I did not watch every minutes, but I have not seen that they really drilled down on SOP of data retention. There were several opening for precise followup of his answers, but most of the committee seemed determined to follow his own script.

Frustrating.

[AppyPappy]

The whole thing is just BS. They are relying on the clueless-ness of Congress.
Backups are multi-layered and there is a long retention time. If this were a Republican WH, the media would be bringing out experts to dismiss this scenario.

[RummyChick]

Did anyone ask about the servers, back up tapes, etc?

If someone doesn’t start asking then this whole thing is just for show.

Paul Ryan had more than one opening but was more concerned about getting his speech into a sound byte.

[nhwingut]

There were several opening for precise followup of his answers, but most of the committee seemed determined to follow his own script. Frustrating.

Agreed. One point was when the IRS dope said he wasn't sure "if hard drives had identifiers or serial numbers." lol. Of all computer parts, the hard drive contains the most serial numbers and identifiers. This is the most critical of all computer parts. They could have made him look like a fool and destroyed his credibility on anything else he said.