As a SAN admin/Systems Admin, I can tell you without a doubt that the emails still exist. They need to get some professionals in there, to examine the off-site backups, and Virtual Volume Physical Copies/VV Snapshots ( of which they could have thousands ) and find them. Until they actually call in the pros, and stop talking to people who really have no clue, this investigation is just a joke.
Yep, get their own pros in there with unlimited access to retrieve them. Then indict the officials who are stonewalling for obstruction of Congress.
How long would something like that take?
As a person who has worked with gov't and gov't contractor IT before, I can believe they lost the data and don't know how to get it back. Entirely through some kind of malfeasance probably, but not specifically due to a cover-up...I still remember one classic case where the backup ran every day, but when DR time came around there were no files to restore. The log showed that every backup taken for the last two years had failed because the tape drive was not properly mounted, heheh. But the job ran, that's what was measured.
If they didn't hire professional sysadmins, or ignored the issues - that's also malfeasance. It's contributory - and that claim about spoilation of evidence made by the TTV attorney has legs.
“As a SAN admin/Systems Admin, I can tell you without a doubt that the emails still exist. They need to get some professionals in there, to examine the off-site backups, and Virtual Volume Physical Copies/VV Snapshots ( of which they could have thousands ) and find them. Until they actually call in the pros, and stop talking to people who really have no clue, this investigation is just a joke.”
This is exactly what bothers me — why aren’t they bringing in the REAL professionals?!
Even the Republicans just make stupid statements, instead of getting a court order to search for those records and let a few dozen REAL IT professionals loose to go after that data.