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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It's government corruption

[Anonymous Coward]

The U.S. government is VERY corrupt. Bush administration officials should be prosecuted, not have the complaints dismissed. Read the book House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties. It documents clearly that every time the needs of the Saudi government and the needs of U.S. citizens conflicted, the Bush administration did what the Saudis wanted, and got paid at least $1.4 billion. There are at least 100 other books that document the abuses in other ways.

Do a Google Image search for images of Bush holding hands with top Saudi officials.

openness

[Anonymous Coward]

If we had a completely open government, this sort of problem wouldn't exist.