The dog ate my homework

And the hard drives of every computer and server in the administration, the little scamp!

Steve Bates of The Yellow Doggerel Democrat notes:

A federal magistrate has ordered the White House to answer a simple question: does it, or does it not, have backups of White House emails between 2003 and 2005. The judge, John Facciola, ordered a lower court judge, Henry Kennedy, to issue a court order requiring an answer..

The White House's response to CREW's requests:

"CREW has yet to provide any basis for their assertions -- be it their original assertion, or their new claim. We are aware that some e-mails may not have been automatically archived in the past, but they may be available on backup tapes. Unlike what the liberal group CREW has asserted, we've never been without a backup system. The Office of Administration at the White House has been maintaining and preserving backup tapes for the official email system."

-Scott Stanzel
White House Spokesman

Has anyone checked those mysterious man-sized safes said to be in Dick Cheney's office?

Here's Jack Cafferty's take: