Not true at all.

They use the same setup we use here at my office. They use an Exchange server with people having their mailbox on the server and an archive file (PST) on their computer. Once their mailbox hits Exchange's default 500MB limit, an automatic message is generated from the server to the user telling them they are over the limit.

User calls the helpdesk, helpdesk walks them through moving enough emails to the archive file that it brings their Exchange mailbox below te 500MB limit.

So yes, it's quite plausible that when her drive crashed she lost all of her old emails. The direction of focus should now be on:

1. Does the IRS do backups of their mail server? If so, how long do they keep those backups?

2. Was Lerner's computer brought in at any time between 2009 and the time the HDD crashed to be backed up and re-imaged?

3. Does the IRS mail server logs go back to 2009? If so, pull the records for whom she emailed and who sent email to her from the DOJ and WH then go subpoena those peoples' emails.

4. Does the IRS use a virtual desktop environment? If so, do they have backups of the user VM's? If so, how far back do they go?

5. Hard copies of all of her DOJ and WH correspondences should have been made and kept. Where are they?

6. Carter Hull's testimony implicated William Wilkins. What's the status of his emails?

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Posted by jdd48

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Member since Jan 2012

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Posted on 6/19/14 at 1:59 pm to Bard

Even if the hard drive crashed, it's almost an impossibility that entire server backups as well as individual mailbox backups do not exist, period. I would be willing to be that the federal government is archiving EVERY e-mail that leaves or enters their e-mail servers, and holding every one of those e-mails for several years. It's hard to envision a scenario where my small business has a better DR/backup plan than the federal government.

On another note, does anyone think that excuse would work for Americans being audited by the IRS? That you lost your hard drive and all backups that contained your records, therefore you should be excused?