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Old 01-22-2008, 06:06 PM   #1
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oops... this one isn't going away either...

gotta ask... how does one "not intentionally" delete emails AND the backup tapes for them? ... reminds me of Austin Powers: "Oh! I fell ovah!! Oh! I fell ovah again!!"

rotten to the core... most corrupt administration in history...

White House Has No Comprehensive E-Mail Archive
System Used by Clinton Was Scrapped

By Elizabeth Williamson and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 22, 2008; Page A03

President Bush's White House early on scrapped a custom archiving system that the Clinton administration had adopted under a federal court order. From 2001 to 2003, the Bush White House also recorded over computer backup tapes that provided a last line of defense for preserving e-mails, even though a similar practice landed the Clinton administration in legal trouble.

As a result, several years' worth of electronic communication may have been lost, potentially including e-mails documenting administration actions in the run-up to the Iraq war.

White House officials said last week that they have "no reason to believe" that any e-mails were deliberately destroyed or are missing. But over the past year, they have acknowledged problems with archiving, saving and finding e-mails dating from early in the administration until at least 2005.

Controversy surrounding the Bush administration's policies intensified on Thursday, when the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released details of a briefing by White House special counsel Emmet T. Flood, in which he disclosed that a 2005 White House study had identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more component offices. In the presidential offices, for example, not a single e-mail was archived on Dec. 17, 20 or 21 in 2003 -- the week after the capture of Saddam Hussein. According to the study summary that the committee released, e-mails were not archived for Vice President Cheney's office on four days in early October 2003, coinciding with the start of a Justice Department probe into the leak of a CIA officer's identity, which later led to criminal charges against Cheney's chief of staff.

The committee's chairman, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), has scheduled a Feb. 15 hearing to inquire about the gaps.

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Old 01-22-2008, 06:41 PM   #2
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oh, and...

Missing White House Emails Match Plame Time Frames
t r u t h o u t | Report

At 8 PM on September 29, 2003, former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales received a phone call from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Gonzales received formal notification that evening that the DOJ had launched a criminal investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson. Curiously, the Justice Department, which at the time was headed by John Ashcroft, officially launched the investigation on September 26, 2003, but Ashcroft waited more than three days before notifying Gonzales and the White House, whose high-level staffers were reported to be responsible for disseminating Wilson's affiliation with the spy agency to the media just two-and-a-half months earlier.

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The details the White House provided in last week's federal court filing about its email retention policy and the recycling of backup tape calls into question the integrity of the leak investigation conducted by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, particularly as it relates to Karl Rove, in that it appears Fitzgerald may not have obtained all of the evidence in the case because the "recycled" backup email tapes may have contained further documents implicating other officials in the leak or, at the very least, discussed the matter.

The story behind the single (Rove/Hadley) email that tied Rove to the Plame-Wilson leak is a complex one. It was (Rove lawyer) Luskin who apparently discovered the email Rove sent to Hadley. Yet, it took more than a year before the high-powered Washington, DC, attorney disclosed this crucial fact to Fitzgerald. And it was disclosed to the special prosecutor only when it became clear Cooper would lose his legal battle and would be compelled to respond to a subpoena demanding he reveal the identity of his source who told him Wilson worked for the CIA. Cooper testified his source was Karl Rove.

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But around the time Luskin said he located the email Rove had sent to Hadley, Fitzgerald had already become suspicious Rove was obstructing his investigation and might have destroyed evidence implicating him in the leak. In late January 2004, Fitzgerald sent a letter to then acting Attorney General James Comey seeking confirmation he had the authority to investigate and prosecute suspects in the leak case for additional crimes, including evidence destruction.

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add this to the list .....

its comical how unprofessional, unethical, and downright unlawful this administration has been.

ha ha.... ha..
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again... i gotta ask, and maybe a staunch Bush League disciple here can clear it up for me with some substance:

if they had nothing to hide -- no criminal leak, no politically ordered attorney firings -- why do White House email records, AND their backup tapes need to be purged?
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Wonder if they used the same "re-cycling service" that the Clinton White House used before/during/and after the Monica Lewinsky "affair"!!!


And, while we're on it: why did Sandy Burglar have to hide Top Secret documents from a classified national data archive?? Why did he have to shove documents down his pants?? He was National Security Advisor!! Why did he need to hide anything????

What was THAT all about????


Did we ever get any truthful answers on that whole deal????


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Wonder if they used the same "re-cycling service" that the Clinton White House used before/during/and after the Monica Lewinsky "affair"!!!
And, while we're on it: why did Sandy Burglar have to hide Top Secret documents from a classified national data archive?? Why did he have to shove documents down his pants?? He was National Security Advisor!! Why did he need to hide anything????
What was THAT all about????
Did we ever get any truthful answers on that whole deal????
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So I guess you have nothing to offer on this latest scandal by George and his crew.. divert, confuse on and on... don't answer the question..
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So I guess you have nothing to offer on this latest scandal by George and his crew.. divert, confuse on and on... don't answer the question..

What's the point? Another witch hunt. For what?? If anybody wants to look at Geo Bush's laundry for dirt, more than enough comparable dirt in Clinton's old laundry is there, if not a lot, lot more.

Who's going to look into the super secret high-tech transfers from the U.S. to China that took place during Clinton's watch??? When are we going to have a Congressional/Senate blue ribbon panel that connects the dots from communist China's high tech gains from the U.S. and Bill Clinton's campaign coffer gains??? A lot of people are still waiting for THAT investigation to get into gear.



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So I guess you have nothing to offer on this latest scandal by George and his crew.. divert, confuse on and on... don't answer the question..
LOL.... he's like a wind-up doll... pull Fog's string and he parrots the same 6 phrases.... just add 'D' batteries...

-- "yeah? well what about Clinton?"
-- "that sounds like evil communist thinking"
-- "these Bush witch hunts will solve nothing"
-- "you're a useless shytbum"
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LOL.... he's like a wind-up doll... pull Fog's string and he parrots the same 6 phrases.... just add 'D' batteries...

-- "yeah? well what about Clinton?"
-- "that sounds like evil communist thinking"
-- "these Bush witch hunts will solve nothing"
-- "you're a useless shytbum"
-- "that's a 'fact' "
-- "you'll learn"


Yes, well, for every problem one needs the correct instrument. Those six are all one needs around here. But you gloss of the subtleties, alas.





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