Yes they could be on the other end - but - you have to know who these people are in order to recover them. Without a record of where these Email went there’s no way to know where to go to recover them.
Without a record of where these Email went theres no way to know where to go to recover them.
Congress has the tools and the authority to get to the bottom of this if they so desired:
see Inherent Contempt-
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/opinion/04tue4.html?_r=0