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Obama Admin Fights Missing White House Email Lawsuit

DesScorp writes "The AP reports that the Obama administration has picked up where the Bush administration left off on the missing White House email issue by trying to have a lawsuit dismissed that would have kept investigating whether or not email was still missing. Two advocacy groups suing the Executive Office of the President expressed disappointment with the Obama administration's actions. Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archive, noted that President Barack Obama on his first full day in office called for greater transparency in government. The Justice Department 'apparently never got the message' from Obama, Blanton said."

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  1. Apparently by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They didn't get the email.

  2. The bailout mascot by ionix5891 · · Score: 3, Funny
  3. Job creation. by plasmacutter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who would have to do the work hunting down the "missing" emails? If the task falls to Obama's staff who weren't even there during the whole Bush thing, then I can't really blame him. If you took on a new job, would you like to be told that rather than focus on the tasks that they were hired to do, instead your staff was going to have to digging around through your predecessors crap to try to find something that may or may not be there?

    they can hire extra IT staff to do the job.

    See, job creation!

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  4. The New IBM PC Jr 9000 by chill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now with tint control!

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  5. Re:who would do the work? by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 2, Funny

    If McCain won the least of our worries would be Bush's emails but the fact the old man will keel over any day and leave a complete dimwit in control of the country.

  6. Re:who would do the work? by bechthros · · Score: 3, Funny

    "and leave a complete dimwit in control of the country." ...again...

  7. Re:Time to end this thread. by tjstork · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being president should not be a job to aspire towards

    My point is that you get the Presidents you pay for.

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