Whitehouse Emails Were Lost Due to "Upgrade"

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "We now know how the Whitehouse managed to lose about five million emails. It seems that they 'upgraded' their Lotus Notes system, which had an automatic retention and backup system, for Microsoft Exchange, which did not support the automatic system. So they changed it to a manual process, where aides would manually sort emails one by one into individual PST files, which they call a 'journaling' archive system. They're still building a replacement for the retention system. Right when they had one finished, the White House CIO complained that it made Microsoft Exchange too slow, so they hired yet another contractor to build another one, causing a senior IT official to quit in protest. So they still haven't completed the project after almost eight years, and rely on humans to sort millions of emails."

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2000 election lost due to "upgrade"

[davidwr]

Al Gore lost the 2000 election due to an "upgrade" whereby the 538-member Electoral College was replaced by the 9-member Supreme Court.

How far along are we?

[Grendel_Prime]

1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2 Create a gulag
3 Develop a thug caste
4 Set up an internal surveillance system
5 Harass citizens' groups
6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7 Target key individuals
8 Control the press
9 Dissent equals treason
10 Suspend the rule of law

The Dog Ate My Homework

[Phoenix666]

is an excuse that doesn't fly for 5-yr olds. Why should the administration, especially this administration, be allowed to get away with it?

Throw the book at 'em. History would have been happier if Al Capone had gone down for murder, conspiracy, extortion, and racketeering, but at least the income tax evasion charge took him down. That is, I would like to see these people impeached and sent to prison for the rest of their lives for human rights violations, the warrantless wiretapping, or any one of the other egregious crimes they've committed, but I'll settle for them going down for violating Federal law requiring the retention of public records.

Re:One of the deleted emails?

[freedom_india]

Ohhhh don't pin this on Gates.
Not even an idiotic bumbling IT Admin with the IQ of Bush would do such a thing.
I mean, even a freshly minted MCSE, flourecent green, knows how to make proper backups.
Whitehouse is just bullshitting.

Time to jail the top guys there starting with the VP and 'politely' get the truth out of them.

Exchange may be crappy in many ways, but this is a human action and cannot be pinned as an error on anybody.
I mean if the whitehouse can retain jimmy carter's speeches and small writings and notes and publish it to insult him, it can certainly retain 5 million emails.

Tell cheney one of the 5 million emails contain his passcodes to his entitlement of shares and dividends to halliburton, and without them, all his past earnings and future earnings are kaput.
You will see the emails appear before Bush takes another vacation.