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White House Tape Recycling Possibly Erased Emails
Pojut points us to a Washington Post story which details the White House's admission that it routinely recycled backup tapes from 2001 to 2003, possibly destroying e-mail records from that time period. While the tapes are being analyzed to determine if any of the data can be recovered, the White House also indicated that some e-mail through 2005 may not have been preserved. We discussed the beginnings of this investigation a few months ago. From the Post:
"During the period in question, the Bush presidency faced some of its biggest controversies, including the Iraq war, the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson's name and the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes. White House spokesman Tony Fratto said he has no reason to believe any e-mails were deliberately destroyed."
Let me see your e-mails from 2001-2003.
"Let he who is without sin throw the first stone."
Weren't White House e-mails reconstructed from erased tapes in the Paula Jones lawsuit?
Malice is the goal, stupidity is the mechanism, malice is the result, and stupidity permits it. It's an amazing little cycle they have going on there.
... are we for or against log conservation ?
I guess some politicians discovered that it was not that convenient...
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Not all information being backed up is vital information even in the white house. There is a lot of mundane information being passed back and forth that should be deleted over time. Email are a very insecure form of communication so (even back in 2003) Keeping Email Backups without hind sight seemed like a waist of time because it was almost all no priority stuff "Meeting at the Oval Office at 3:00pm" or "hey check out this funny joke" Having a year or two backup of this stuff is quite silly. For a considered low priority insecure form of communication... Including getting millions of peoples rants to the president. Back in the old days someone would have written a letter and it would have been destroyed by shredding it and/or incineration. Lets keep politics out of it or any irrational hatred of a person and or his policies, and think of it on an IT level here. Emails back in 2003 were considered junk messages. Backups kept were for cases of system crashes so they can restore data as it was left off, and maybe a year or two back in case something was deleted and needed to be retrieved.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
It was never established that he 'destroyed' the documents, he was accused of attempting to remove them.
Strange that you would see this as worse than the destruction of all email records from the EOP over a period of several years. Or maybe not so strange. You were pretty wuick to attribute a partisan motive to me, looks to me like you are projecting like mad here.
Projection is a major Bushie trait. The man who started a war of choice in Iraq calls Iran a threat to world peace.
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