Thinking they won't be able to explain much of any of this away without looking more inept than a bunch of functionally illiterate 5th graders. Email by definition is not a single-source (computer) material so even suggesting that they '12-gauged' the problem wouldn't have made it gone. I really doubt that the world is so upside down that the government employs incompetent IT people while the best ones work for the smallest schools in remote pars of Alaska. Crashed computers don't easily keep their secrets safe.
