I’ve been saying this on every board I’ve been on, the government is required to archived. If the emails are lost, it’s on purpose. Some techie at that company was told to DoD erase and then destroy that hard drive.
When you write an e-mail, it goes to your server to be sent to the person you e-mailed. Your server keeps a copy of that e-mail, and of all your e-mails – sent and received. When you create all the folders in your e-mail program that you use to save e-mails in...these are also stored on your server.
I use Gmail, so my server is a Google server. These servers are large machines, and they most often run the Unix operating system.
Unix has several features for doing regular backups – both incremental ones and full backups. The standard operating procedure for any IT Systems Administrator is to create automatically – daily incremental backups and once a week did a full backup. Back then, store them to tape, and these tapes were then archived for future use if needed.
Lois Lerner’s e-mails exist on those backup tapes from her server. Focusing on her computer’s hard drive when emails are concerned is a RED HERRING.
Lois Lerner’s hard drive is not the only source for her e-mails. They exist on her server in the archived backups.
GO GET THEM !!