WHAT HAPPENED TO LERNER’S REPLACEMENT HARD DRIVE?
When a HD crashes and needs to be replaced (either with a new HD or another computer with new HD), normally files including emails are recovered and transferred to the new HD. If the hard drive had files that couldn’t be recovered, the backup system would be used to rebuild files and then a transfer of these files to the new HD would be performed.
After transfer, the new HD should have files on it for the most recent 6 month period before the date of IT servicing. Here’s the kicker—Lois Lerner and ALL IRS EMPLOYEES should have other backups/record of their files (either hard copies and/or electronic) because they know the backup system only goes back 6 months. If this weren’t the case, nobody at IRS would have any record of communications beyond 6 months! IT’S NOT REASONABLE (POSSIBLE) THAT ANYONE AT IRS WOULD HAVE MORE THAN 6 MONTHS OF DATA LOSS (INCLUDING EMAIL)!
There is also an IT department/service “paper trail” for all this.
Not to mention e-mails are NOT a point to point transmission. They go to a “post office” so to speak. Now, for most E-mails, there are two post offices. One for the sender, and one for the reciver. I could believe that the emails, given their nature, all went through a single post office (server) since they are likely from the same domain.. but are they?
Lerners domain is likely a irs.gov for her email. Zero’s would likely be a whitehouse.gov or something like that.. could it be the same server? ya, but unlikely..
All these machines have back ups, all these machines have raid (redundant array (of) inexpensive drives) and it’s very very very very rare that there is not also another form of back up.
The administration is buying time and trying to kick the can. he can’t start the pardons yet.