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 !!
Still, if some IRS dude or dudette calls the archiving company and says “lose those backups”, their GONE. Disk, tape or stone tablet, their gone. Wouldn’t be surprised if a body doesn’t turn up.....
Investigate the company that did the archiving.
Good summary of how normal e-mail operations are performed. The crash of Lerner’s and other conspirators are red herrings for the naive.
If it was your job to make the emails and their ‘footprints’ disappear, can it be done?
Also the ‘dead drive’ may be a red herring.
After much time and effort ther recover ‘not so much’.
Now that they have had time to rewrite the old emails.
Can it be done?
What about allknowing NSA?
They keep copies of everything, subpoena the records and see wasaaap!