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kernaljessup
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White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived
05/06/2008 @ 12:46 pm
Filed by Nick Juliano

The White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-released filing concerning millions of e-mails alleged to have gone missing or been deleted.
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"A White House declaration filed late last night ... makes the stunning admission that the White House failed to preserve ANY backup tapes for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003, a period of time during which the U.S. went to war in Iraq," says a release from Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington, a watchdog group suing for public records concerning the disappearance of internal White House e-mails.

Without computer backup tapes from this critical pre-Iraq war period, future researchers may be deprived a vital resource as the delve into the inner workings of the Bush administration as it decided to invade a country that had not attacked the United States and possessed no weapons of mass destruction.

"The harm is that we've lost a huge piece of history," says Anne Weismann, a lawyer for CREW.


Not only does the Bush cabal thinks they can make up history, these SOB's think they can delete it too.
Randys
the harm is we lost a huge bit of evidence
kernaljessup
QUOTE (Randys @ May 6 2008, 06:37 PM) *
the harm is we lost a huge bit of evidence


Exactly. Guffaw!
aspen7698
QUOTE (kernaljessup @ May 6 2008, 03:36 PM) *
Not only does the Bush cabal thinks they can make up history, these SOB's think they can delete it too.



...and that's exactly what they did.
liberalla
QUOTE (Randys @ May 6 2008, 03:37 PM) *
the harm is we lost a huge bit of evidence

I wonder if it's really "not there". I can understand they would prefer to say they 'failed to archive' it, rather than produce the emails. I just can't believe they're truly gone. Someone, somewhere, must have the data and have it hidden away. Buried.

Faade
Big telecoms have it. They have everything. And the Bush cabal is sparing no expense to keep it under wraps. Obama will have to order the presidential records opened all the way back to carter to get to the bottom of this one.
shoeshoe
QUOTE (kernaljessup @ May 6 2008, 03:52 PM) *
Not only does the Bush cabal thinks they can make up history, these SOB's think they can delete it too.

Of course, this is against the law. It's a felony to destroy presidential records.

But will the Wimp-o-crats in congress hold any Republican accountable for this or any other crime?

Of course not.

Because the Democratic Party, as currently led, is nearly as corrupt as the Republican Party, and nearly as useless.
GCurry
This "make me" mentality won't get better until we start lopping off heads.
Ishmael
QUOTE (GCurry @ Sep 22 2008, 10:29 AM) *
This "make me" mentality won't get better until we start lopping off heads.


This is America. We don't behead people. We Hang the Bastards



sacxtra
QUOTE (liberalla @ May 6 2008, 11:14 PM) *
I wonder if it's really "not there". I can understand they would prefer to say they 'failed to archive' it, rather than produce the emails. I just can't believe they're truly gone. Someone, somewhere, must have the data and have it hidden away. Buried.



I doubt it if the hard drives or memory chips were grind into sand. Which make it all the more important to SEIZE this information NOW!!!


Of course this is only my opinion.

It's not like working for the government is the same as protecting you personal belongings from illegal search and seizure, they are not above the law.
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