[nhwingut]

So, this means that the US government’s official IT policy does nothing to store and protect older emails?

It's clearly done on purpose. Supposedly they have a policy that calls for printing out official business emails. Which is ambiguous at best. And it's at the agent's determination. If it's incriminating do you think the agent is going to print it out? Right! And secondly, the idea, in this digital age and government green agenda (when storage is so cheap), they'd print out on paper instead of digitally storing it is so laughable. Oops, spilled coffee on it.

Bottomline, the IRS is nothing but a legal criminal organization. And we know that destroying evidence is task #1 of most organized crime operations. This wasn't a policy that slipped through the cracks. They are always getting sued. And what better protection than having no evidence.

[Kozak]

I would like to see someone introduce legislation that citizens cannot be held to a higher standard of documentation then the government agency they are dealing with.
If the IRS only has to maintain 6 months of records then any citizen dealing with them can only be held to the same standard....