22 million emails found from Bush administration

[Miramonti]

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White House computer technicians have found 22 million e-mails that were believed to have been lost during President George W. Bush’s administration, according to the Associated Press.

The discovery was announced Monday by the National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, which filed lawsuits against the Executive Office of the President, or EOP, over the e-mails in 2007.

The two groups had initially filed a Freedom of Information Act request for e-mails in the wake of a scandal involving the Justice Department, which had fired U.S. attorneys around the country in an apparent political bid to rid the department of prosecutors who didn’t adhere to the White House’s conservative agenda. The missing e-mails were also potentially crucial to the investigation into the Valerie Plame–CIA leak scandal.

The groups eventually filed lawsuits after the EOP revealed that it had lost about 5 million e-mails from its servers between January 2003 and July 2005, because the e-mails had not been archived properly per the Presidential Records Act. Among other things, CREW sought records about the EOP’s e-mail management system, about retained and missing e-mails, and about any audit reports that might have revealed potential problems with the e-mail system.

The newly discovered e-mails were apparently mislabeled [imagine that...] and were recently uncovered by contractors hired by the White House. The e-mails will eventually be made available to the public, after they are archived through the National Archives and Records Administration.

I know other domains were used to circumvent WH servers (ie rnc servers?), but I think this will still be awesome once its sorted thru. :biggrin:


(sorry if its reposted...search didn't yield...and i don't frequent this barrio.)

 

[gingermeggs]

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I know other domains were used to circumvent WH servers (ie rnc servers?), but I think this will still be awesome once its sorted thru. :biggrin:


(sorry if its reposted...search didn't yield...and i don't frequent this barrio.)

We need a hanging judge for this wise and beautiful woman!

 

[Miramonti]

We need a hanging judge for this wise and beautiful woman!

Sweet, I was sure I'd be blasted for reposting.

/relief

 

[Patranus]

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I know other domains were used to circumvent WH servers (ie rnc servers?), but I think this will still be awesome once its sorted thru. :biggrin:


(sorry if its reposted...search didn't yield...and i don't frequent this barrio.)

Those Clinton hard drives turn up yet?

 

[sciwizam]

Those Clinton hard drives turn up yet?

Let me take this to the inevitable.........those Mesopotamian clay tablets.

 

[nobodyknows]

Those Clinton hard drives turn up yet?

You mean the ones were they falsified evidence about WMD's in order to wage a war that sen thousands of our young men and woman to their deaths under false pretenses?

I seriously doubt you be any bigger of a douche if you were trying on purpose.

 

[Patranus]

You mean the ones were they falsified evidence about WMD's in order to wage a war that sen thousands of our young men and woman to their deaths under false pretenses?

I seriously doubt you be any bigger of a douche if you were trying on purpose.

Are you illiterate or did you simply not read the article to see what these emails pertain too?

 

[theflyingpig]

Now we will hopefully be able to shed some light on how WTC7 fell. I'm certain the crucial evidence we've been looking for all these years is hidden away somewhere in those 22 million emails. I'm certain of it. Everyone knows this.

 

[Patranus]

Now we will hopefully be able to shed some light on how WTC7 fell. I'm certain the crucial evidence we've been looking for all these years is hidden away somewhere in those 22 million emails. I'm certain of it. Everyone knows this.

Lets look at this from an IT administrator perspective.

21,999,000 emails that are either spam or chain letters, 1,000 actual business related emails.

 

[nobodyknows]

Those Clinton hard drives turn up yet?

Are you illiterate or did you simply not read the article to see what these emails pertain too?

ROFLMFAO!! What a stooge!!

 

[Patranus]

ROFLMFAO!! What a stooge!!

You are the one that somehow equated emails pertaining to the firing of U.S. Attorneys to emails about the manufacturing of evidence over WMDs in Iraq.

 

[First]

Amazing people would still vote for the last admin after they betrayed the CIA. Nothing worse than outing an agent. George Bush agrees too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvu3Ecnvd74

 

[Patranus]

Amazing people would still vote for the last admin after they betrayed the CIA. Nothing worse than outing an agent. George Bush agrees too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvu3Ecnvd74

And that is why Bush didn't pardon Libby before he left office.

 

[nobodyknows]

You are the one that somehow equated emails pertaining to the firing of U.S. Attorneys to emails about the manufacturing of evidence over WMDs in Iraq.

Damn, I would have swore you posted first in this thread and I commented on your post as sarcastically as you did about the OP's post.

I guess you're one of those who likes to dish it out but can't take it very well.

Either that or it's just "over your head" which wouldn't surprise me. Maybe it's a combination?? Whatever, thanks for the laugh, I can always use a good laugh!

 

[First]

And that is why Bush didn't pardon Libby before he left office.

Yeah, because commuting his sentence was so honorable.

 

[Miramonti]

Are you illiterate or did you simply not read the article to see what these emails pertain too?

Did you read the article? It didn't say what the emails pertain to, only what the interest in them was when requests for them were filed. 22 million over 3 years is going to cover a lot more than 2 subjects. (and that also assumes these are for just 2003-2005 that covers the timeperiod that the whitehouse said 5 million were lost, which isn't entirely clear in the article)

The two groups had initially filed a Freedom of Information Act request for e-mails in the wake of a scandal involving the Justice Department, which had fired U.S. attorneys around the country in an apparent political bid to rid the department of prosecutors who didn’t adhere to the White House’s conservative agenda. The missing e-mails were also potentially crucial to the investigation into the Valerie Plame–CIA leak scandal.

 

[Robor]

Those Clinton hard drives turn up yet?

But Clinton!

 

[dullard]

You are the one that somehow equated emails pertaining to the firing of U.S. Attorneys to emails about the manufacturing of evidence over WMDs in Iraq.

Just to put some facts into this debate that is sadly lacking in facts:

"Monday's settlement allows for 94 days of e-mail traffic, scattered between January 2003 to April 2005, to be restored from backup tapes. Of those 94 days, 40 were picked by statistical sample; another 21 days were suggested by the White House; and the groups that filed suit picked 33 that seemed "historically significant," from the months before the invasion of Iraq to the period when the firings of U.S. attorneys were being planned."

Link here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/14/white.house.emails/index.html

Some of these emails were specifically chosen to focus on the Iraq issue. So, please stop denying that in this thread.

And since I'm a little uninformed, which Clinton hard drives are you talking about? Is it the backup drive that went missing earlier this year when we still have the original data? Or is there another hard drive missing? A missing backup when you still have the original is not nearly the same thing as completely lost data (the situation we had with the missing emails before they were found).

 

[dahunan]

Why were they deleted and missing in the first place?

What were they hiding?

 

[Ausm]

You mean the ones were they falsified evidence about WMD's in order to wage a war that sen thousands of our young men and woman to their deaths under false pretenses?

I seriously doubt you be any bigger of a douche if you were trying on purpose.

I wouldn't underestimate that douchebag because he continues to amaze me.

 

[rudder]

Why were they deleted and missing in the first place?

What were they hiding?

ummm it is the Federal Government we are talking about. This is standard operating procedure for anything. Been going on since crooks and dirty politicians have walked the halls of the white house and gasp dare I say...continues to this day.

 

[Miramonti]

Why were they deleted and missing in the first place?

What were they hiding?

This helped eliminate the risk of being vindicated, a risk that was obviously too great.

 

[Sinsear]

Anything to distract the failures of the Obama administration.

 

[Miramonti]

Anything to distract the failures of the Obama administration.

Like the truth?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

A non politically associated group needs to go through these since neither party can be trusted. Of course put that under "fat chance".