Enron data retrieval

[Carl Remick]

There seems to be a lot of techno savvy on the LBO list, so I'd like to pose 
this question:  How difficult would it be to reconstruct electronic and 
paper Enron files that Arthur Andersen destroyed?  My impression is that 
federal security and intelligence agencies have data-retrieval technology 
that could do this relatively easily.

To me the great mystery of this affair is why Andersen would compound its 
existing legal problems by engaging in further criminal activity -- file 
destruction -- that would probably prove futile and definitely destroy 
whatever remained of the firm's reputation.  In the House hearings 
yesterday, John Dingell characterized Andersen's actions as "either 
criminally stupid, or stupidly criminal or both."  But all jokes about 
bean-counters aside, it's hard to imagine a Big Five accounting firm could 
be that stupid.  How damning can those files be to drive Andersen to such 
desperate actions?

Carl

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