I wouldn't try that in traffic court.
That email is backed up from a network drive every night, with a copy on the hard drive. It’s a .PST File. If servers were upgraded, the file along with the PST files of everyone in that group would have been backed up and then restored onto the new server. Since that server, especially in this day and age would have been replicating to another server there is another copy.
So, if the local drive crashes, the .PST file would be restored. If it wasn’t on the server, it would be on the replicated server.
A worst, the drives (probably H) would be backed up nightly to tape with a certain retention period before it is recycled.
In other words, I am calling BS on the IRS.
One last question. They keep mentioning 6 additional people lost files. Did their local drives also crash? The odds of that are, let’s just say Dell SAS drives have an MBTF meantime before failure at 1.6m hours. Unless there was a bad batch and coincidentally the 6 people impacted are all involved in this scandal had their drives all fail at the same time, it is nearly impossible for this to happen.
My advice? Every month, bring this up. Have a press conference with a reminder on how corrupt the Obama government is. Keep committees quiet, with just enough info going out to keep Fox News sated.
Win control of the Congress and Senate and on January 20 2014’ start the removal process for Obama, Holder, and the entire lot of them. Take Sunsteen and the other 31 Marxist Czars and have them arrested for sedition.
This way no one can say its racist.