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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Justice Dept. is silent about why it has failed to preserve Comey emails in FOIA case
2018-08-03
[Daily Caller] The Department of Justice has refused to take any steps to preserve work-related emails former FBI Director James Comey had on a personal account that The Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch requested under the Freedom of Information Act, the conservative watchdog will file in court Friday.

"There is nothing but complete silence about why the FBI has failed to take steps to preserve records responsive to DCNF’s request," Judicial Watch attorney Michael Bekesha will write in the filing before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Judicial Watch and TheDCNF filed a joint lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act on April 25 seeking records, including emails, Comey produced regarding meetings and conversations he had with then-President Barack Obama, then-Vice President Joe Biden and a variety of other political figures.

Following the Justice Department Inspector General’s June 2018 report, which disclosed that Comey used a personal Gmail account for official FBI business, both groups sought a preservation order to assure no records related to their FOIA requests were lost or destroyed.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  Gmail will be backed up ALL Over the place..
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-08-03 14:54  

#3  If you have an SSD even a format can leave lots of data behind.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-securely-erase-hard-drives-hdds-and-solid-state-drives-ssds/

you'll need to use the SSD manufacturers secure erase tool.

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WRT a personal email they'll be multiple copies of the sender and receiver and also the server on them should have backups or if the mail server is hosted that will have tape backups and probably kept for 7 years

Can't find simply means didn't look.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-08-03 14:48  

#2  I was under the impression that everything was backed up in case of catastrophic emergencies.

I also know you have wipe a hard drive with a pattern of 0 and 1 to guarantee the info on it is unrecoverable (I worked with high end Servers and Intelligence community demanded this functionality). If that is not done info can be recovered even if 'erased' or overwritten a number of times.

Something has never seemed right about all these missing emails.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2018-08-03 10:03  

#1  ...."There is nothing but complete silence about why the FBI has failed to take steps to preserve records responsive to DCNF’s request,"

He's a worthless, lying bastid, but he's our worthless, lying bastid, therefore we must protect him.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-08-03 06:54  

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