[WILLIALAL]

What about other work product that would have been lost; why has that not been discussed?..........

This is a very important point. Lerner, if her hard drive did actually crash, would need a new computer almost instantly, just to function and fulfill her day to day responsibilities. You just don’t get a blank computer and continue to run your office from that point. She must have had 10’s of folder filled with documented data that she would need to have recovered and placed on her new computer to be able to have her office function.
So obviously the lost data was available on a server somewhere. Obviously it was recovered and reloaded on her computer, almost immediately, not months later. Her email folder would have been an almost invaluable piece of that data. Almost invalualbe. It would be one of the first things anyone would want recovered and reloaded on their computer, and yet we are to believe they were able to recover all her other data but not the email folder?
This is an important area that needs to be investigated.
Maybe the Federal judges putting pressure on the IT people at the IRS will shed some light on this.

[Mycroft Holmes]

...So obviously the lost data was available on a server somewhere...

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Since about the mid '90s most companies with an actual IT department required all of their users to place all work product on their "T" drive which was mapped to a server on the net. This way, if a user's machine crashed a new one could be provided immediately, be mapped to the appropriate server/directory and be up and running with no lost data right now. Anybody not doing it this way is just stupid. Not out of the question when talking about our benevolent masters.

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[antidisestablishment]

It is a violation of Federal law to keep emails (or any other records) on a hard drive. All federal IT systems run on centralized servers with redundant backup systems. This entire scenario is not only unbelievable, but illegal on its face.