Do you know how long it would have taken to review 15,000 emails? Even if you had seven guys sitting there....figuring between them about 250 per day...you’d be talking about ten days of lawyer costs....this would amount to at least $150,000 minimum. Someone should ask how they paid for this lawyer work.
They were using key words....not a big deal.
Well, actually, the lawyers then outsourced it to a computer, which is why they job they did was so pathetic.
I don’t have any sympathy for the excuse that it would have taken too long, though. That’s why you’re supposed to use the government system and not your own private server.
Release all of the emails to the Internet and it will be done very quickly AND FOR FREE. Lots of sharp folks here on FR and the Internet who could write scripts.