I glad to see that this question was finally addressed by our generally less than computer savvy GOP Congressman. Fortunately we at least have Chavez and Gowdy.
I suspect that Koskinen is also technically challenged and he has probably been feed a line about tape backups. Yes, there probably was a tape backup. But there was also, undoubtedly, a server backup or two or three that they could have easily used to restore the Lois Lerner Emails to her fresh new clean hard drive.
They apparently didn’t think of that.
Does anyone believe that story?
Does that fact lead anyone to question whether that hard drive of hers failed or was deliberately trashed, probably by a very, very savvy technical type?
Surely there are computer programs that will mess up a hard disk beyond recovery. I’m just guessing. If anyone knows that for sure they should comment.
So I’m betting on sabotage followed by a decision to not back up the Emails from a server. Deliberate destruction of evidence.
I was waiting for someone to ask if Lois Lerner ever left the office area where her computer was that eventually crashed. I mean, the chick has to take biz trips, and undoubtedly brought a laptop with her. Did she ever access her email while on the road? Having said that, does it mean that her office computer was set up as a virtual server where ALL HER email traffic was stored? Of course not, as her emails were stored on another server or two...or three located elsewhere.
This is the biggest load of horse$hit I’ve ever heard.
This “hard drive jive” is for the consumption of the low-information voters, plain and simple. Nothing to see here, move along now.
It is very hard to delete email as it can be in other folks email, it can be archived, it can be journaled, it is on weekly tapes, monthly tapes, email db logs. It is hard to beleive the feds purposely only keep 6 moñths of tapes.