So they went from an environment that had backups to one where the backup was manually copying a mail on different servers.
That is supposed to be progress ?
Shooting is too good for these morons. The whole White House should be nuked from orbit.

"Well, I see you're a graduate of Regent University. Do you have any previous experience running an Exchange server?"
"Uhh... no."
"Well then, are you a loyal Republican?"
"Yes!"
"You're hired!"

journaling isn't a manual process you turn on journaling and an external system processes and archives the information sent/received by that mail server.

My only guess it that claiming stupidity of lost e-mail carries a lesser fine than what the truth would carry.

The funny part is the attorneys will never question the right people who can answer what really happened with the e-mail.

You mean "destroyed evidence" I presume.


Delibrate or otherwise it seems that every single Government agency and their contractors around the world are totally unable to manage the basics in IT. Everything from lost personal data, lost laptops, crap online implementations, blown budgets, to "disappearing" emails and non-existent backup. Congratulations clowns.

I would think the email equivalent of "the dog ate my homework" is something like "a worm ate my mail-server"