White House Email Follies

Presto Vivace forwards a link detailing a recent House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the White House missing emails mess. David Gewirtz's report, carried in OutlookPower and DominoPower (in 6 parts, keep clicking), makes for scary reading. "If, in fact, the bulk of the White House email records are now stored in bundles of rotting PST files, all at or above their maximum safe load-level, that ain't good in a very big way... I object to using the inaccurate and inflated claim of excessive cost as a reason to avoid compliance with the Presidential Records Act."

Comments

Lotus Notes?

[sunderland56]

I find the fact that the US Government runs on Lotus Notes more scary than the fact that they don't have any sort of backup strategy.

I bet if you go over to the IRS, those guys have a rock-solid backup going back many years.....

Solution

[Cuppa 'Joe' Black]

Someone just needs to 'leak' that one of those archived emails contains a transcript of Osama bin Laden endorsing Barack Obama for president. Then stand back because we are all going to be sprayed with WH archived emails.

Re:Mod this guy up

[Anonymous Coward]

Elect a President who is a failure (Business, Baseball, Economics, & English) and see what happens. He's the Gym Teacher president

Those who can't do Teach, those who can't teach, Teach Gym.

Re:What?

[NeverVotedBush]

I think it's more likely that G.W. doesn't use e-mail because he can't find the "sendification" button.

Re:What?

[NilObject]

Certainaly it wasn't powerpoints on intelligence reports.

Based the general stream of diarrhea coming from the White House (especially this past week), I'll wager $500 that it's torture/bondage porn.

Re:Mod this guy up

[jlowery]

Those who can't do Teach, those who can't teach, Teach Gym.

Those who, cant Use Punctuation; post to Slashdot