Upgrades Are Not Always A Good Idea
As more comes out about the lost presidential emails, it is worthwhile looking a the system decisions that got us here in the first place. It is interesting to note, that when the email retention laws went into effect during Clinton’s term, they were able to build an automatic, tamper resistant archiving scheme in under a year.
It is also interesting that when the Bush administration decided to upgrade the system, the archiving system became manual and lost the tamper resistance. The advantage of mismanaging every single aspect of your presidency is that when stuff like this comes up, we have to assume poor planning, rather than more nefarious causes. Nixon was an amateur.