We're all saying it... Why not try and do something about it?
We've heard tons of times about how the hard drives were lost and for every story about that we have at least 10 IT pros (myself included) that comes along and says that the emails should and probably are still on the server that facilitated the e-mail exchange.
Let's review those servers for the emails instead of going on this endless goose chase going after emails that we are being told don't exist.
Petition the Government to bring up the records on the servers instead of asking the people why their hard drives went missing.