Turn the drives over to the FBI. Send a FBI IT tech over to discover their data backup.
I used to work for the federal government: they are not completely gone.
Congress is in the bag for this admin, most of us already know this by Boehner inactions.
The hard drive isn’t the issue.
If Person A sends an e-mail to Person B in another company, then the e-mail can be recovered from:
Person A’s computer.
Company A’s server.
Company A’s backup of Person A’s e-mail box.
Company A’s backup of Company A’s server.
E-mail server nodes along the way of transfer from Company A to Company B.
Backups of e-mail server nodes along the way of transfer from Company A to Company B.
Person B’s computer.
Company B’s server.
Company B’s backup of Person B’s e-mail box.
Company B’s backup of Company B’s server.
This idea that somehow an e-mail can be completely lost is ludicrous and any politician who claims it should lose their job for basic stupidity.
Maybe they remember people saying that Nixon should have burned the White House tapes. If the emails are gone for good it's because they were deliberately destroyed, meaning there was incriminating evidence in them. It also means that Obama is confident that he can get away with destroying the evidence.
Maybe they remember people saying that Nixon should have burned the White House tapes. If the emails are gone for good it's because they were deliberately destroyed, meaning there was incriminating evidence in them. It also means that Obama is confident that he can get away with destroying the evidence.