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White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed
wanderindiana brings us an update on the White House missing emails mess, which we have discussed before. It seems the hard drives of many White House computers are gone beyond the possibility of recovery. Is it unusual in your experience for, say, a corporate IT department to destroy hard drives by policy? "Older White House computer hard drives have been destroyed, the White House disclosed to a federal court Friday in a controversy over millions of possibly missing e-mails from 2003 to 2005. The White House revealed new information about how it handles its computers in an effort to persuade a federal magistrate it would be fruitless to undertake an e-mail recovery plan that the court proposed."
And unlike the rest of you alarmist, tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy theorists, I will actually provide the documentation to support my claim:
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) document SP 800-14, "Generally Accepted Principles and Practices for Securing Information Technology Systems" (September 1996), section (3.4.6)
Privacy Act of 1974
Computer Security Act of 1987
Government emails are public records and it's against the law to destroy them the same way it's against the law to destroy any other public record. It is NOT standard practice to destroy email at the state, local and federal level. There's also evidence Bush and friends used a separate, private email system at commercial ISP to avoid being snooped on the way he is snooping on everyone else. The only thing that's consistent here is Bush telling a lie.
Next thing he'll tell you is that Sadam hid his email with WMD.
Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.
Don't expect any mod points with that kind of attitude.
They were probably congratulating themselves on how well they pulled off 9/11