Does anyone remember what happened when Congress was investigating the Internal Revenue Service and wanted the email of Louis Lerner? “I’m sorry, they are lost.” They stayed lost for over two years and were mysteriously recovered after that. In her case she was being investigated for manipulating a system that granted tax exempt status to certain organizations. She favored those who were politically aligned with her party. Everyone in Information Technology in the IRS knew there were backups and they knew where they were.
Now, the FBI has suddenly lost 5 months of relevant emails in another Congressional investigation, this time over similar political shenanigans. The difference this time is that they have a plausible story for why they lost them, and presumably the backups too. They learned from the previous probe that it is not good enough to just assert the loss.
I used to have a forensics group that could find email where it was lost. They could find things criminals used to extort money and those were pretty well hidden. I know they could figure out where these emails are. The FBI has some of the best forensics people in the world and they are saying they can’t find email that were internally generated. There must be something in those emails that is really interesting.
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