I manage IT services for small business clients. It would be impossible that a single PC “crash” would delete exchange/outlook emails, especially, and conveniently, only for two years and only for outbound correspondences. Does not happen. Has never happened in history of computing. And this is for Joe’s Auto Repair. Not the IRS, which uses enterprise servers, mirrored hard drives, fault tolerance, backups, offsite storage (for years). This is absolute BS! Lois Lerner personally deleted these emails from her sent folder. Which is a crime. Even so, the IRS has copies/backups.
All good technical points, but that overlooks the political strategy. The statement is the beginning of a bogus executive privilege argument which will turn into a lawsuit which won’t be resolved until after the 2016 election.
Dems figure if they win in 2016, it won’t matter as ‘fundamental change’ will be complete. If they lose, they will be able to rely on the MSM to parrot a ‘let’s move on’ strategy. No question the ‘turn the other cheek’ Pubbies would fold in the latter case.