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22 Million Missing Bush White House Emails Found
ctmurray writes "Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush, and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days' worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that had filed a lawsuit — which has now been dropped — over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record-keeping system. Earlier we discussed the Obama White House's opposition to the lawsuit that led to this discovery." The related links reflect our discussions about the missing emails over two years.
I'm guessing those are the "location of Iraq's WMDs" e-mails.
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We pretty much now know Bush was inept. So Inept Cheney illegally routed information into the Vice presidents office that was only suppose to go to the president, and the president didn't know.
In-fucking-ept.
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Are we to understand that it was the people in Bush's white house that failed, and not "the gubbermint"? Nonsense and tosh!
Clinton's Administration didn't seem to have a problem with archiving e-mails.
I imagine that if Obama's Administration was having problems, we'd know about it by now.
So with that in mind, I'm going to go ahead and say that yes, it was the people in Bush's white house that failed.
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and if it really was unintentional, then they would've taken less than "new administration plus year+" to find them.
Maybe it was an accident, and they found them on some unlabeled backup tape. Maybe it was an accident, and this is the first time they thought of using low-level disk tools to undelete. Or maybe it was intentional, and someone doing the grunt work "forgot" to "accidently delete" the backup tapes (in a whistle-blower kind of way). But the intense secrecy ethic of Cheney-Rove run administration (c'mon, it's true) combined with a "nothing could be gained by telling exactly what happened" reasoning now, we'll never really know.
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If only it were that simple. If the functions that a particular government organization is performing are cut and then are merely transferred to private enterprise, then the opportunity for mischief and mayhem remain, at best, the same.
So if government isn't jailing me for not recycling my plastics, then some private enterprise will fill that role? If government can't execute me for badmouthing Big Brother, then some private enterprise will step up to the task?
Here's where the government bashers and I agree that you are wrong. There simply is far more opportunity for villainy and harm unto others in government than in corporations. And those functions that a particular government organization perform need not be transferred to anyone at all, public or private. If no one checks to see if I'm recycling or saying the right things about Big Brother, then that's ok with me.