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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 07:07 PM Jun 2014

2008: Bush Admin 'loses' 22 million emails related to Plamegate, Darrel Issa says 'don't sweat it.'

Apparently, Daryll Issa and the Republicans didn't think it was a 'scandal' when the Bush Administration 'lost' 22 million emails between 2003 and 2005, relating to A) lying the country into the Iraq war, and B) outing CIA agent Valerie Plame in order to punish her husband for exposing the lie about the yellowcake uranium. "Just blame it on a computer glitch, and forgedabbadit" says Issa.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/06/issa-blamed-ibm-software-loss-22-million


What a difference a few years makes. Here Issa defends Karl Rove's use of private email accounts to do government work while in the White House, without Congress getting access to it. *Eyeroll*


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2008: Bush Admin 'loses' 22 million emails related to Plamegate, Darrel Issa says 'don't sweat it.' (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jun 2014 OP
Hey, Rebublicans don't do anything wrong, it all those Democrats asking for information which will Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #1
Please post this as much as you possibly can.. busterbrown Jun 2014 #2
In the interest of accuracy no emails were destroyed. former9thward Jun 2014 #3
Only 3 mos. of 30 mos. worth of email were recovered. OnyxCollie Jun 2014 #14
Too Bad Our Leadership Sucks billhicks76 Jun 2014 #4
Well you forgot.... MaggieD Jun 2014 #5
Thanks TrollBuster! Cha Jun 2014 #6
Thank you for this! Raine1967 Jun 2014 #7
IOKIYAR sakabatou Jun 2014 #8
But, but, but... SoapBox Jun 2014 #9
+1000 kairos12 Jun 2014 #10
But... bearssoapbox Jun 2014 #11
22 million emails missing? 14 embassy attacks? No problem. Initech Jun 2014 #12
This should be kicked to the top Hekate Jun 2014 #13
Your wish is my command aint_no_life_nowhere Jun 2014 #15
Heh - instead of the shoe bein' on the other foot... Plucketeer Jun 2014 #16
On the other hand, Dems were pissed about missing emails back then, hughee99 Jun 2014 #17

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Hey, Rebublicans don't do anything wrong, it all those Democrats asking for information which will
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 07:29 PM
Jun 2014

Prove the wrong doings and they ain't going to give it up.

 

OnyxCollie

(9,958 posts)
14. Only 3 mos. of 30 mos. worth of email were recovered.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 03:08 PM
Jun 2014

The government now can find and search 22 million more e-mails than it could in late 2005 and the settlement means that the Obama administration will restore 94 calendar days of e-mail from backup tape, said Kristen Lejnieks, an attorney representing the National Security Archive.

Stanzel, the former White House spokesman, said that the 94 days of e-mails to be recovered from back-up tapes consist of 61 calendar days already planned in the Bush era and an additional 33 days of recovery that the Obama White House have agreed to recover as part of the settlement of the court case.

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
4. Too Bad Our Leadership Sucks
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 08:50 PM
Jun 2014

We need pit bulls on these panels to point out these hypocritical crimes on the Right. But instead we have weak sellouts like Hoyer, Pelosi, Clinton, Reid etc who are afraid or too complicit to take the fight to them. Grayson we need you!!!

Initech

(100,054 posts)
12. 22 million emails missing? 14 embassy attacks? No problem.
Sat Jun 21, 2014, 11:32 PM
Jun 2014

One happens under Obama and the republicans go apeshit.

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
16. Heh - instead of the shoe bein' on the other foot...
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:16 PM
Jun 2014

it should be jammed down Issa's maw - a smelly size 15EEE at that.

hughee99

(16,113 posts)
17. On the other hand, Dems were pissed about missing emails back then,
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 04:29 PM
Jun 2014

and now many are quick to jump on the "Oh well, these things happen" bandwagon. Hypocrisy kind of works both ways.

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