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Trying To Find White House Missing E-mails

Gov IT writes "On Wednesday a federal court ordered all employees working in the Bush White House to surrender media that might contain e-mails sent or received during a two and a half year period in hope of locating missing messages before President-elect Barack Obama takes over next week."

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  1. Re:Contempt of Court by 1u3hr · · Score: 3, Informative
    , but either possibility (purposely deleted or accident) seems equally likely to me.

    700 days' worth of email are missing. I think you'd have to work pretty hard to "accidentally lose" that. You might neglect a backup or two. To do it for two years ... well, Bush can just isue himself and his staff pardons to cover it.

  2. Re:And then what? by EsJay · · Score: 5, Informative
  3. Fight or Flight by not_hylas(+) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Review IT architecture of (the late) Mike Connell for the GOP:
    Read the links, Videos with Spoonamore, another GOP IT Guru.

    http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F23%2F2128209

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJi7ViN35O8

    http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Foul_play_not_suspected_in_GOP_0113.html

    http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prosecute_rove/

    You telling me Systems people don't do backups?
    Thought not.

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    ~hylas
  4. Re:Cut GW some slack by AK+Marc · · Score: 4, Informative

    But what about the claim that he was tied to terrorism? The only "tie" they found was that al Qaeda contacted him, asked to train in his country, and Saddam turned them down. Yes, he spoke with them, that was the "tie" to terrorism. He refused to let them in. As for the WMDs, there were lies about yellow cake. Bush stated things in public after his administration was told that information was incorrect. Either false information propogates instantly and corrections take until the media notices, or they knew and lied. No usable WMDs were ever found. They weren't there. He may have had some facilities, but the only WMDs he had were essentially provided by the US and he was never really able to manufacture them effectively on his own. Not that he didn't want to. And yes, Saddam lied to indicate that he did have them. His people probably believed he had them. If he didn't have the appearance of having them, there was the real possibility of invasion or revolt. So Saddam was lying in saying that he had them. But, of course, no inspection ever revealed them and none were found.

  5. Re:Cut GW some slack by maladroit · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where's the 'delusional' mod when you need it?

    How about this lie? : http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/16/Armey_Cheney_misled_me_on_Iraq/UPI-53871221586641/

  6. Re:And then what? by sumdumass · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realize that Nixon was never impeached nor convicted of anything right?

    How can you expect anything you say to be taken seriously when you don't even have basic history right? It isn't like Nixon was another no eventful minor era in the history of the united states. You should at least have a basic understanding of it if your going to open your mouth on it.

  7. Re:Contempt of Court by ericspinder · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why would he need to? There are no penalties over the deleted files.

    From the Presidential Records Act

    Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.

    John Dean had it right when he called it 'Worse than Watergate'.

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    The grass is only greener, if you don't take care of your own lawn.