E-mails are particularly hard to get rid of. Copies remain on the sending and receiving computers. Copies remain on the mail servers they pass through, and these servers usually have back-up archives.
For example, part of the evidence against Iran/Contra conspirators Oliver North and John Poindexter came from 5,000 e-mails which they had tried to delete but which were recovered from server back-up archives.
The Blair government is facing allegations about the sale of honours by his Labour government, and recovered e-mail messages may figure prominently in this ongoing scandal.
What have you said in an email that you shouldn’t have?
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