[stomachmonkey]

Good question.

Been waiting for that lightbulb to go off.

Every email that is sent or received has for an indeterminate amount of time at minimum one counterpart on the other end.

We have 30k emails missing.

There was a copy of each one of them somewhere for some period of time either in an inbox or sent items.

Since the crux of the complaint is the possibility that classified information was passed through her system it's pretty much a given that were that true X number of them would exist in a Fed archive.

The Fed can not legally delete them at will and the systems are backed up.

So really all anyone needs to / needed to do was search, starting with State as it's most target rich, the archive for emails sent to or received from her private account.

Match whatever you find with what she handed over and if there are unaccounted for matches it can be assumed those might be among the 30k.

At minimum you should be able to parse the log files for the Fed servers and still find evidence of bi directional exchanges that are not accounted for by "physical" copies.