If the policy was to recycle backups after six months and the emails in question are dated earlier than that, then there's no scandal. Shouldn't they have reviewed the retention policy at the start? Or are they claiming that certain people still had their emails on their desktop PCs and decided to delete them when they realized they might be investigated? Because that's a whole separate charge. Simply saying that they destroyed emails in accordance with IRS policy makes this a non-story, IMO.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
