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I am not sure what the deal is with the DOJ e-mail system but having worked for large corporations, I know that the mail boxes get backed up every night to tape, and there are rotations of tapes, some are kept for 30 to 60 days, some tapes are kept for 6 months. Some are archived longer... financial institutions for instance are required to keep e-mail records involving transactions for 7 years. There is usually a system called "legal hold" for making sure e-mails wih critical legal information don't get deleted.
I don't know how long DOJ keeps backups of their e-mail system - maybe they don't keep e-mails backups more than 30 days, but Issa could subpeona the IT department head/director for the electronic documents.
I think it would be interesting first of all to see how far in the past they have the mailboxes backed up, and to see the reaction of Holder to the request.
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