It doesn't really even sound like they "missed" it. I.e. from the article: > The judge said the CDC, along with all other Department of Health and Human Servic

It doesn't really even sound like they "missed" it. I.e. from the article: > The judge said the CDC, along with all other Department of Health and Human Services agencies, had adopted a National Archives protocol known as Capstone that calls for senior officials’ emails to be preserved permanently and sets retention periods of between three and seven years for messages in the accounts of lower-level employees. CDC maintained it only signed on to part of the Capstone approach, but Contreras said the agency appeared to have embraced the whole plan and then abandoned part of it without permission. That is, there seems to be enough ambiguity there, especially in that last sentence, suggesting the CDC reasonably thought they were acting lawfully.