Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffrey Epstein case missing

Re:Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffr... by LinuxBender on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:00PM (#25086723)

Government email? Personal email? If government, there will be backups and anti-tampering. There would also be copies on servers that involved anyone in the email threads.

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Re:Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffr... by cwkoss on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:26PM (#25087044)

I bet US intelligence agencies have this capability for governmental email addresses.

Though they shouldn't have this capability.

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Re:Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffr... by LinuxBender on Friday November 13, 2020 @03:55PM (#25087368)

They actually should but not because of technology. It would just be a subpoena or an order, if it comes from the right group. Government records are retained for a minimum period of time. If records are missing, then investigators need to find out why. It is not clear to me however if this is personal or government systems we are talking about.

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Re:Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffr... by javagram on Friday November 13, 2020 @05:00PM (#25088036)

NSA or CIA spying on Americans in the USA is illegal, so they really shouldn’t have access to the official emails.

Government emails are supposed to be retained by the National Archives and Records Administration, not by an intelligence agency.

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Re:Alex Acosta’s email inbox during critical period of Jeffr... by LinuxBender on Monday November 16, 2020 @09:01AM (#25111686)

Agreed. I worded that poorly. That is why I am saying the intelligence agencies won't have it. They would use policy to get the data, which ultimately translates into a court order. Failure to comply with the order would alert investigators to a bigger problem.

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