despite the law explicitly mandating it do so.
What law, there is no law anymore in the age of Obama. The law is what the Oligarchs say it is.
If you walked in the front door today, with a court order demanding they delete the records ...
How many BATF agents, lawyers, and bureaucrats would fight you?
how many would follow the law?
How many would (deliberately) break the law and retain the records anyway - As in their offsite “backup” servers. You know, the ones Hillary did not have.
Would you get back out of the door without handcuffs?
It’s OK, they’ve coaxed Lois Lerner out of retirement to help BATFE get back into compliance with “the law.”