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Bush's Electronic Archives Threaten To Swamp National Archives

Posted by timothy on from the if-you're-smart-this-can-all-end-well dept.

ColdWetDog writes "The New York Times reports that the soon-to-be-disbanded Bush / Cheney White House threatens to overload the National Archives with close to 100 Terabytes of data. This includes the Barney Cam and even 'formats not previously dealt with.' By way of comparison, the Clinton White House dumped less than a single terabyte into the archives. Of course, Mr. Cheney, always the Good Citizen, tried to help out when he 'asserted this month in a court case that he had absolute discretion to decide which of his records are official and which are personal, and thus do not have to be transferred to the archives.' Glad to see that somebody over there is trying to clean up the cruft for posterity."

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  1. Cheated by sugarmotor · · Score: 0, Troll

    The American people are being cheated, once again.

    Stephan

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  2. Re:100TB by ta+bu+shi+da+yu · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's not very impressive that the centre of Freedom In The World censors the Internet. The word I'd use is "ironic".

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  3. Fascistic states of America by louzer · · Score: 0, Troll

    So they want to erase history now.

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  4. Re:Formats not dealt with? by GigaHurtsMyRobot · · Score: 0, Troll

    No one is asking what Clinton was hiding?... Sad. Even worse, after collecting hundreds of millions from overseas interests, his wife is going to be Secretary of State. Change we can believe in!!