Watching this whole mess unravel, I’m still amazed the committee hasn’t called in some technical experts to provide them the basic information on how e-mail systems work and why this IRS baloney is such a laughable lie.
BTW, technical expert = any sharp community college graduate with a few of the basic Microsoft Certifications with some experience on Exchange Server. This does not require a Ph.D. in Computer Science, IMO. After the kid with the MSCE/MSCP explains it to them, they ought to see the need for a few J.D. holders to form a Special Prosecutor’s office.
They know the hard drive story is BS. They don’t want to bring in techies to tell them otherwise, because they like this story and plan to use it themselves sometime in the future.
Lots of low info people think the hard drive story is how it happened. The pols want to keep this one for future use.