Wonder how “sanitized” these newfound e-mails have become?????
As an IT engineer for the last 20 years, I can tell you with 100% certainty that I would lose my job if I could not produce an archive from the last 7 years. I’m allowed to take a few days to produce, as we often have to send away for tapes from Iron Mountain; but that data is understood to be recoverable. We’ve been able to go as far back as 10 years in some rare instances if tapes were not overwritten or were archived with scratch tapes.
This business about the government not being able to produce documents from just 6 months to 1 year ago is absolute bunk and borders on criminal withholding of evidence.
....now that the backups have been sufficiently scrubbed.
IRS = Dean Smith’s “4 Corners” offense.
Reminds me of minutes of deleted cassette tapes from the White House, during Richard Nixon.
IRS: “Now that we’ve had sufficient time to flush all of the incriminating e-mails, we found the back-ups!”
Delay tactic. There are no backup tapes, or at least none will ever be produced. Let’s not get our hopes up on this.
Like almost everything our government leadership does that comes under scrutiny, I don’t care which party, we will never know the truth.
I hope they find somebody better at producing phony emails than who they found to produce a phony birth certificate.
Start prosecuting the people that were responsible for ensuring that these documents were properly archived as per federal law. You’ll be amazed what you would learn.