Contractor Tied To Cunningham Bribery Scandal In Charge Of WH "Missing" E-Mails.

[kpete]

Remember MZM, the government body shop whose founder and CEO Mitchell Wade was charged as a co-conspirator in the Duke Cunningham bribery scandal? Well, MZM is among the handful of contractors identified in writing by a White House technology official at a Waxman hearing today as having been hired to deal with White House email - millions of which have gone missing. See page 4/question 5 of this questionnaire (.pdf) http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20080226143915.pdf filled out by Mr. Steve McDevitt, a senior manager in office of the chief information office of the Executive Office of the President administration office from 2002 through 2006.

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007067.html

more:

User Accountability - The approach of simply storing email message in .pst files provides no mechanism or audit trail that tracks changes to data files or the activities performed by users or system administrators.

According to Mr. McDevitt, he brought his concerns to the attention of senior officials at the White House, including “White House Counsel Harriet Miers and members of her staff.”

http://citizensforethics.org/files/Committee%20Report%20on%20WH%20Email.pdf

more:

I keep tripping over more and more goodies with each paragraph I read:

The documents received by the Committee show that the White House was repeatedly warned that its system for preserving e-mails was inadequate…

These risks were reiterated in an internal White House “discussion document” from October 2005. According to this document:

There is operational risk in current email storage management processes. Lost or misplaced email archives may result in an inability to meet statutory requirements…Standard operating procedures for email management do not exist. Automated tools that support the email archive process are not robust. The current version…is prone to failure…Searches of email in response to statutory requirements may not be complete, creating legal and political risk.

http://citizensforethics.org/files/Committee%20Report%20on%20WH%20Email.pdf

[aquart]

1. And they dealt with it precisely as ordered.

I wonder what they would reveal with a bit of waterboarding? Could we set it up in some congressional anteroom? Tape it, of course.

[femrap]

2. That is a really good idea! nt

[Winterblues]

3. creating legal and political risk.

Yep I'm sure they are quaking in their boots

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. “the aspens are all connected at their roots"

Nice post.