White House lost Over FIVE MILLION e-mails in two year period?-CREW

Today, CREW issued a new report, WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White House Emails and Violations of the PRA, and made the shocking new disclosure that the Bush White House has lost over FIVE MILLION e-mails in a two year period. The report also details the legal issues behind the growing controversy over the White House e-mail scandal.

Through two confidential sources, CREW learned that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost over FIVE MILLION emails generated between March 2003 and October 2005. The White House counsel’s office was advised of these problems in 2005 and CREW has been told that the White House was given a plan of action to recover these emails, but to date nothing has been done to rectify this significant loss of records.

Our Executive Director, Melanie Sloan, issued the following statement after learning of the revelation

>>>>snip : http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27603
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I can't believe this number

to rectify the situation. Kind of like Condi's track record. Is there anything that they are held accountable for?

it is time to hit them with the justice scales.

... unaccountable and operating in secrecy. To the question of "If you've done nothing wrong why fear privacy violation?" we can surely point to this as clear evidence of "doing something wrong."

This is Obstruction of Justice in the macro sense and deserves immediate and hard-fisted correction.

involved

Does Congress run this damng country elected officials of the people

or appointed Bozo run it

It was mostly spam. :eyes:

That sounds like a lot of e-mails.

I've worked on large-scale litigation where we had twice that number in a shorter period of time for about 100 mailboxes. Of course a lot of these WH emails are probably spam, notes to/from the wife (don't forget to pick up the dry cleaning) etc., but I'm sure there are/were some gems in there, too.

"PRA Violations: 1) The administration failed to implement adequate record-keeping systems to archive presidential email records; 2) two confidential sources independently informed CREW that the administration abandoned a plan to recover more than five million missing emails; 3) White House staff used outside email accounts to conduct presidential business, ensuring that emails were not adequately preserved. In fact, former Abramoff associate Kevin Ring said in an email to Abramoff that Ralston had told him not to send emails to her official White House account “because it might actually limit what they can do to help us, especially since there could be lawsuits, etc.”

Hatch Act Excuse: The administration has claimed that Rove, Jennings and other staffers use RNC accounts to avoid violating the Hatch Act. This is untrue. The Hatch Act prohibits White House staff from using official resources for purely “political” purposes. “Political” refers to the president’s role as either a candidate for office or as the leader of his party. Email communications regarding presidential appointments for U.S. Attorney and Interior Department positions clearly fall within the PRA as making appointment is an official presidential function and does not relate to the president’s role as party leader."

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27607

No really I did but not 5,000,000 times

Right. . .?

the entire country at risk.

No wonder 9/11 happened and the anthrax murderers and Bin Laden still roam free. No wonder there is a meth lab on every block and the country is broke! No wonder New Orleans wasn't ready.

Miss Woods.

:tinfoilhat:

LOL! You *know* I'm enjoying this too much.

Or have they done that?

indicate that they kept some kind of track of them? How else do they know that there are 5 million missing. Did they count as they deleted?

:eyes:

Hope Leahy brings in the forensics.
This is total obstruction..... and conspiracy.

It's a pittance.

Oh, and a felony.

it's recoverable or there wouldn't have been a plan.

cussing lil boots* up one side and down the other damning him to hell for all eternity. I bet that mail is sitting safe and sound in a file along with my photo and finger prints, labeled subversive watch this one.

:eyes:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=639407&mesg_id=639530

In a nutshell....bull shit