I suspect there were a good number of strategically situated hard drives that somehow managed to be “scratched”.
Funny how that happens.
Anyone who emailed her or whom she emailed seems to have suffered an irrecoverable harddrive crash and did not archive their messages as required by law.
Does not pass the smell test.
Anyone who was in the chain of communication had a “backup” of her emails (she wasn’t just sending them to herself).
Even if they were “no longer on the server”, they were still in other peoples’ mailboxes. Until the order came down from within to destroy the damaging information.