New Orleans - Members of the Louisiana Technology Council, a group hired to perform a "forensic review" of city hall emails believe someone intentionally tampered with a computer server to remove Mayor Nagin's emails.
The emails in question involve all correspondence send and received from the mayor from the time he took office until June of 2008. That's when there was a catastrophic failure occurred on the server and the city moved to a new server.
Louisiana Technology Council, in it's forensic investigation was able to recover the mayor's calender, but so far, none of the emails.
Asked whether it was intentional, a spokesman says yes. A spokesman pointed out that an average person couldn't do this, only a highly technical person would be able to remove that kind of information.
LTC says there is no way the missing emails were a result of the server being damaged. There were 59 old mailboxes on this server. All other emails on this old server were recovered except for the mayor's.
The FBI has contacted LTC and the company is cooperating.
