I just had to respond to this bullchit about not having the emails. My expertise is DR...Disaster Recovery for computers that crash and burn. I have been in this business for 20+ years and have worked for some of the largest computer firms in the world doing my specialty of recovering "lost" data. The data isn't lost, nor is the backup system "too onerous to search".
I architect and build these systems for the government at various facilities around the country, and can tell you if there was a backup of her computer...which there is most likely multiple backups...generally 3 times a day...EVERY day..those emails are available and easily searched and recovered. ALL government systems are backed up 7 days a week 365 a year. Many...especially laptop/desktop machines are backed up a minimum of 3x a day with snapshots that are redundantly saved on both disk and tape, and quite often as an ADDITIONAL safety precaution, duplicated for a 3rd copy "just in case" and sent to a remote facility for offsite storage. Just an fyi...IF the data is on tape...it is there FOREVER...or until the tape is over written or destroyed, so the recovery process is still possible 10-15-20 years later.
Email is one of the most critical tools used within business as it affords efficiency and easy recall of information and communication between people or groups of people. Most enterprise level facilities ( the government is one) have redundant failovers for their exchange servers so there would probably be as many as 4 copies of those emails. So losing these emails...and "too onerous to search" is a bunch of political crap.
