The Washington Post:
The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.
The 2005 study -- whose credibility the White House attacked this week -- identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).Waxman said he decided to release the summary after White House spokesman Tony Fratto said yesterday that there is "no evidence" that any White House e-mails from those years are missing. Fratto's assertion "seems to be an unsubstantiated statement that has no relation to the facts they have shared with us," Waxman said.
The competing claims were the latest salvos in an escalating dispute over whether the Bush administration has complied with long-standing statutory requirements to preserve official White House records -- including those reflecting potentially sensitive policy discussions -- for history and in case of any future legal demands.
Waxman said he is seeking testimony on the issue at a hearing next month from White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, National Archivist Allen Weinstein and Alan R. Swendiman, the politically appointed director of the Office of Administration, which produced the 2005 study at issue.
Another official in that office on Tuesday challenged the study's credibility in a court affidavit, contending that current White House employees have been unable to confirm the veracity of the analysis or to recreate its findings. Waxman's disclosure provides the first details about the study's findings.
We saw this one a mile off. Why are people so amazed? I mean, in 2006 the Democrats take Congress and the next thing we see is a TRUCK filled with shredding machines driving up to Cheney's offices. This is the group that studied Watergate to see how NOT to make mistakes. Not to avoid breaking laws, mind you, but how NOT TO GET CAUGHT.
Cheney has wiped his fingerprints off of every thing he's ever touched. I'm sure he's behind this oh-so-mysterious email erasure thing....
Update 1/19: Steve Bates of The Yellow Doggerel Democrat cites an AP article and says:
Read the entire article for a sample list of some dates for which emails are known to be absent. Remember as you read that the government is legally required to archive all its emails. There's a system in place to do so. There is simply no way this quantity of emails can have gone missing accidentally.
Why is there any American anywhere who does not see that the current White House is one massive criminal enterprise?
15 comments:
you have a loan troll
8-)
as for vanishing emails
can i have a glimmer of hope that like at work -- an email is never really deleted
Poor loan troll... into the trash...
But just think, as with all things internetly tubal, the comment will float forever in the ether....
I think it was Sen. Patrick Leahy who said to just let any teenager lose in the White House servers and s/he'd be able to find the 'missing' emails with no problem...
There's a lot of scrubbing that goes into deleting all that stuff. Of course, its amazing that all the backup tapes were recycled...
What happened to all the outside e-mails used, too
They just can't say,"OOPS!" on this one. There's no dog large enough to have eaten all those emails AND the backup tapes....
And ye will know them by the trail of the mail servers
;>)
And the denial of service thereof...
Verily, the ways of Caesar are full of guile and his paths are paved with lies. Believe not the stuttering fool of a leader nor the words uttered by the man of his right hand...
What they did is they encoded it all, see, and cleverly replaced letters with numbers, so like GWB became 7-23-2 and Fred F Fielding...oh nevermind.
Is this where everything ends up equaling 23?
POEE subscribes to the Law of Fives, but 2+3=5 and POEE also recognizes the holy 23.
POEE: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric (Principia Discordia)...
Uh... you make me google the WEIRDEST stuff, Michael!
Aka, How I found Goddess and what I did to her when I found her. It's good reading, I recommend it.
not junk mail
It is hilarious/ truthful/ silly/ and delightful. Thanks.
lo, and if ye reade the whole thingge to the very ende ye shalle find a prize of very little observable value.
Forsooth, I didst not achieve the ending but wilst attempt thus anon...
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