[hoosiermama]

Would they still be retrievable from the hard drive of the computer?

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Would they still be retrievable from the hard drive of the computer?

In a word, no. Military standards for electronic erasure of data require that the actual sectors occupied by the data be repeatedly rewritten with alternating "1010" binary patterns followed by "0101" patterns. This process is repeated for a number of passes dependent on the security level involved. The procedure is done (or supposed to be done) to guarantee that no recognizable data remains on the HD after it's erasure and preclude it's subsequent retrieval.

Regards,
GtG

[ebiskit]

Those hard drives are wiped clean, broken thoroughly and acid poured on them, thats at least the procedure those guys on the EP3 used before it was forced down by a Chi-com jet at the beginning of W's admin. I doubt they are even still existence. I still think the AD guys are holding some explicit info that corroborates their story on numerous points or they would not be coming out in the first place. You don't take the Arkansas Mafia to the hoop unless you have irrefutable facts.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

All important government hard drives were reformatted as Bush was sworn in, in January, 2001.