Topic: Email Archiving

The FBI report concludes that Hillary Clinton did not personally delete emails to avoid FOIA requests, instead trusting her legal team to handle the process. Technical details reveal that her first private server, installed in 2007, was an Apple Mac Mini running OS X Server. The report also notes the use of BleachBit to wipe archives and the physical disposal of old server hardware.

Hillary Clinton's explanation for using a private email server is criticized for its technical inaccuracies. The hosts argue that the mainstream media is too "idiotic" to ask basic questions about server backups and NSA archiving. Clinton's claim that federal employees are solely responsible for deciding what to archive is presented as a deceptive narrative that ignores how government systems actually function.

The investigation into missing IRS emails belonging to Lois Lerner is scrutinized. Technical experts (referred to as "dudes named Ben") explain that the IRS used SonaSoft's SonaVault, a system designed specifically to prevent data loss from hard drive crashes, making the official "crashed drive" excuse highly improbable.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified that the agency limits employee email storage to 6,000 messages due to server capacity and budget constraints. Representative Darrell Issa challenged this claim, pointing to the agency's $1.8 billion IT budget. The discussion explores the technical absurdity of a major federal agency being unable to afford modern archiving solutions that are standard in the private sector.

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen faces intense questioning from Congressman Paul Ryan regarding the loss of two years of emails. The discussion highlights the technical implausibility of the hard drive failures and the existence of SonaSoft, the agency's email archiving contractor.

The IRS's claim that it lost years of Lois Lerner's emails due to a "computer glitch" is contrasted with the strict data retention requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. While private sector executives face up to 20 years in prison for failing to maintain email archives, the IRS Commissioner John Koskinen suggests that retrieving the subpoenaed documents would take years. The hosts argue that the government is exempting itself from the very transparency laws it imposes on corporations.