I didn’t know that Symantec had that contract TChad. Former Clinton Counterespionage, and then, when he wasn’t retained, Cyberespionage Advisor, worked for Symantec for a while. His name escapes me, but I heard him talk at Symantec, and found him slick, but not knowledgeable. He is one of those political spooks, more politics than content.
No one could selectively delete email from an Exchange database without leaving log entries in half a dozen places. Further, if POP/SMTP servers were used, IP addresses of senders and receivers are separately recorded, less the messages themselves. Any real investigation would entail retrieving and identifying all Lerner’s mail recipients and subpoenaing the emails. Issa seems to have run cover for Obama on many occasions, not lease of which was Fast & Furious. Someone suggested that Issa, whose parents are Lebanese, may have dibs as ambassador to the Caliphate.
As you point out, and I can confirm, there are no Exchange databases without at least one shadow set. Two shadow sets is the norm, and three, because it is the IRS, are likely. Even the shoestring operation behind Free Republic has a backup, as we have learned when there were hardware failures. No government employee should have messages stored locally. Lois could leave her laptop in her car, or a janitor could pick it up, or one of John Brennan’s database experts could access her desktop system. Of course Brennan’s people had the contract to support the State Department’s database, which is how they cauterized just Obama’s State Department records. That was a single collection of records since Obama was a junior senator. Lerner’s contacts must have consisted of tens of thousands of records, and impossible to remove without disrupting records cross-referenced to thousands of other IRS employees. Every single operation on the database is logged to allow the change to be reversed if necessary. This, like most other topics involving destruction of our republic, is full of easily detected lies. But since the executive is corrupted, including the Justice Department and Military, nothing will come of it.
The many many logs generated when a server is accessed, and further records when someone authorized to access a database does so, and such access requires connections to two and probably three geographically separate systems make the expunging of just the tracks left by one user, Lois Lerner, next to impossible. Her mail sent to internal recipients would also be on her assigned Exchange server, but many of her messages were likely sent to NGOs or offices with local Exchange servers. Silence was almost certainly commanded of all her correspondents, probably by Eric Holder. No one will talk, and probably with good reason.
No one will talk, and probably with good reason.
It is hard to hold a conspiracy together. Issa should let it be known that whistleblowers will be given immunity.