wh Has No Comprehensive E-Mail Archive: System Used by Clinton (Under Court Order) Was Scrapped

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


For years, the Bush administration has relied on an inadequate archiving system for storing the millions of e-mails sent through White House servers, despite court orders and statutes requiring the preservation of such records, according to documents and technical experts.

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.

The administration's e-mail policies have been repeatedly challenged by lawmakers and open-government groups, in congressional hearings and in court. Two groups, the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, have accused the White House in lawsuits of violating the Federal Records Act because of what they say is its failure to preserve millions of e-mails, a charge the White House rejects.

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and if I'm not mistaken, retention periods are part of the International Standards of Operation (ISO). at the very least for Disaster Recovery procedures.

They didn't want a paper or electronic trail. Their scrapping this smacks of a crime.

They have been give carte blanc to commit any crimes they wish with full knowledge they will never be held accountable.. Accountability is "Off the Table"....And the election coming up will not change that fact. The same Democrats that are there now will stay there and they will use their re-election as proof that America doesn't want Republicans held accountable..America is a Criminal enterprise from top to bottom..What we need is more guns....

criminals acting like criminals. I'm sure it ws just an accident though. :mad:

hmmmm...."the pet goat"?

with a library?

It's almost like they didn't want to preserve a record of their e-mails! But that can't be true, because George W. Bush, the kind of guy you want to have a beer with, said that he was going to restore honor and integrity to the White House, now that the grown-ups were back in charge.

You don't suppose . . . :think:

See, if he didn't have that cort ordered "custom archiving system" installed, then they wouldn't had to rip it all out in the first place.

so you don't/won't have one to set. damn girl get off your freaking ask and dooo something.

I mean he only did the same thing as he did to FEMA............

Get rid of something of Clinton's that worked.

The White House, IN FACT, FAILED TO PRESERVE EMAILS. Rejecting or denying that fact is simply an act of falsehood, again.