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.
I agree that it’s a delay tactic, among other things.
My major point is that they goofed in claiming a TWO YEAR time period. The longest period that ANYONE at IRS can reasonably lose data is SIX MONTHS and not two years.