This could put the IRS in the clear...When the judge says that they testified under oath that the emails are unrecoverable, the case is over...
The judge didn’t say produce the emails, or else...Seems he just wants it on legal record that there are no more emails...
Seems he just wants it on legal record that there are no more emails...
I think the judge’s intent is to see what procedures and actions were taken to recover the emails and dispose of the hard drive. Someone had to authorize the destruction of that hard drive.
There had to be an attempt to recover data off of that drive, or Lerner never would have been able to operate her office with just a new hard drive. The IT department would have had to reconstruct the data on her hard drive off of the backup tapes.
If they could recover any data off the tapes to reconstruct her new hard drive then why weren’t the emails recovered also.