“it’s shocking they didn’t make a record of their illegal behaviors”
It is shocking because they did it after the investigation had started, which is monumentally stupid.
You can destroy any records you want at any time, unless there’s an investigation underway or you have good reason to believe one will be starting. At that point, you’re destroying evidence.
Must be the evidence was more damning than the SCT of destroying evidence
No, it’s shocking that the destroyed evidence after being explicitly instructed not to.
Make destroying evidence a worse offense than the crime (or as a de facto admission of guilt) and sanction them accordingly.
It is for us plebs, look up adverse inference
$10 says they’re backed up somewhere.
A company like Google has redundant backups in their veins.
Just sayin.
Don’t Be Evil!^TM
Just tell DOJ the guy in charge of server backup and retention didn’t know what they were doing. Worked for Hillary.