If they were running exchange, those emails were backed up, and are on media or a drive array somewhere. They could probably be fully restored within minutes.
I’ve worked with places that have crazy mailbox size quotas, which requires the users to not keep emails very long, or save them to .pst files, but even THEN, those emails would still be backed up from Exchange most likely before deletion/user archival. The user’s .pst files are indeed often kept on the user’s computers, but are usually saved within a redirected/networked folder which resides on a file server, that’s ALSO backed up. Even IF the .pst file IS on the user’s local drive and it “crashed”, most of the time data can be recovered from a failed drive.
For those emails to not be recoverable, they would need to have one of the most pathetically sloppy IT departments in the history of the government, terrible business practices, and some of the worst luck I’ve ever heard of. It simply didn’t happen the way we’re being told.
“...For those emails to not be recoverable,they would need to have one of the most pathetically sloppy IT departments in the history of the government,terrible business practices,and some of the worst luck I’ve ever heard of. It simply didn’t happen the way we’re being told.”
As part of our pressure on congress, etc, we should ask,
“a) If the head of the IRS loses records and gets away with it, and
b) if the IRS can’t keep from losing records ,
then why should we trust OUR records to them; why are they still in business?