If you read the whole article you will come to this gem:
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Sergi also told the judge of the steps they IRS took to recover 25,000 of the missing Lerner emails by sifting through the archived emails of other employees she would have corresponded with.
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Sifting through emails must be really, really tedious. Indexing them and searching for Lerner, Lois however could take several milliseconds.OK, maybe even a few thousand milliseconds. How dumb do these people think we are?
How dumb do these people think we are?
Apparently very dumb. But these judges are not buying it. They are putting the pressure on the IT department to see if all required procedures were followed. There has to be a paper trail. Anyone who has worked for the government knows this, especially when it comes to government computers.