I have pretty extensive experience with government email systems and you can bet "poorly". So I would not be surprised if their entire email infrastructure is h

I have pretty extensive experience with government email systems and you can bet "poorly". So I would not be surprised if their entire email infrastructure is horribly out of date (think Exchange 2000). That said, government organizations tend to have good backups, retention, offsite storage of tapes via some service like Iron Mountain, etc. So yea, I agree, I am not buying it either.