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White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever

dcblogs writes "In the first 40 days of President Barack Obama's administration, the White House email system was down 23% of time, according to White House CIO Brook Colangelo, the person who also delivered the 'first presidential Blackberry.' The White House IT systems inherited by the new administration were in bad shape. Over 82% of the White House's technology had reached its end of life. Desktops, for instance, still had floppy disk drives, including the one Colangelo delivered to Rahm Emanuel, Obama's then chief of staff and now Mayor of Chicago. There were no redundant email servers."

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  1. Re:No surprise by Mabhatter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why should we take them seriously at all? The country was in the middle of a war and their party groomed no leader to continue it. The man in the VP chair was physically incapable of doing the job of a President on an ongoing basis should the task have been required... The guy even has artificial organs now.. Just like a "Darth". That President "walked away" from the job when the biggest ACTUAL CRISIS occurred in the last 30 years.

    The MAN failed to hold his office in order to the end. The PARTY failed to plan for the financial and military good of the country. And left us more in Debt than Regan did to win the Cold War.

    The previous guy had 16 years of Executive Branch experience when all hell broke loose.. The new guy had ZERO and at least has done a passable job walking into the middle of things. Which side had 6 years of uncontested control? Which side failed to run a ship that could endure the storm? Remember that in November and NEVER FORGET it.