Think about this a little bit. What would be the single most serious mistake that an IT company could ever do to a customer?
That's right ... delete their information without authorization. What IT employee in his right mind would delete information on a server many months after any communication with the customer. Even if a several months old request existed, who would act on such a request months later without verifying that authority still existed to delete?
Wouldn't an employee with any concern for his future employment check with higher-ups to determine whether some countermanding order from the customer had been received.
This employee is lying and covering up a conspiracy to obstruct justice, plain and simple.
I posit that you are correct.
Not to worry, Wiki-leaks has them.
Reminds me of the Saturday Night Live Skit “Pepsi Syndrome” where they send in the unsuspecting cleaning lady played by Garrett Morris to mop of the radioactive spill from the reactor...
“many months after any communication with the customer”
Correction: the deletions happened immediately after a conference call with Hillary and her lawyers, and there was another conference call immediately after they were completed.