CREW: Issues NEW Fact Sheet - There Are TWO E-Mail Scandals

[kpete]

CREW Issues New Fact Sheet: The Facts Behind The White House Email Scandals

Submitted by davidswanson on Thu, 2007-04-19 10:43. Evidence
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/21497

Washington - Following up on the WITHOUT A TRACE report, today Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) issued this fact sheet to clarify the ongoing White House email scandals.

There are two separate email scandals:

- Top White House officials’ use of RNC email accounts and RNC destruction of those emails

- Five million EOP emails missing from White House (EOP) server from period 3/03 to 10/05

RNC Email Scandal:

- Top White House officials, including Karl Rove, used RNC and other outside email accounts to conduct White House business

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- Emails show that officials were aware that if they used outside email accounts, their email messages would not be preserved

- Even though DOJ sent White House a preservation request for records related to CIA leak investigation in September 2003, RNC continued to purge all emails every 30 days until August 2004

White House Email Scandal:

- In late 2001 or early 2002, Bush administration discontinued automatic email archiving/preservation system put in place by Clinton administration (ARMS)

- Bush administration failed to put another system in place that would appropriately and effectively save email records in a records management system

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- White House Counsel was briefed on this and given plan of action to recover missing emails

- White House never implemented plan to recover missing emails (even in face of preservation order from DOJ)

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Bush administration is still not telling the truth:

- Dana Perino has said problem with EOP server occurred when White House switched from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook – this is untrue; emails are missing for a 2½ year period starting in March 2003 and ending in October 2005

[MADem]

1. When did they swap out the White House servers, I wonder? NT

[salin]

2. ask every GOP sympathizer that you know: "What are they Hiding?"

and "How angry would you be were this obstruction of justice happening back in the Clinton WH?"

[Robbien]

3. Have they declared executive privilege for the WH missing emails?

I do remember reading about the executive privilege, or the executive branch privilege, they claimed for the RNC ones.

[EVDebs]

4. Ptech's access to WH and DOJ et al's computer systems...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptech

seems to me to be a great place to start looking for answers. After that, just go to...

"It's all part of a growing ongoing investigation into corruption in defense and intelligence contracts, which already has sent former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to prison and, legal sources say, may threaten others in Congress and the CIA. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

...and use your imagination as to who's currently hiding facts in Gonzo-gate and running cover for the administration. Anyone who wants the missing $2.3 TRILLION to stay missing :

War on Waste
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

""According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.

$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. To understand how the Pentagon can lose track of trillions, consider the case of one military accountant who tried to find out what happened to a mere $300 million.

"We know it's gone. But we don't know what they spent it on," said Jim Minnery, Defense Finance and Accounting Service. "

[bobthedrummer]

6. Some very important points there EVDebs that simply can't be "lost" n/t

[intheflow]

5. So very true.

Kicking to get more recs on the GP. :kick:

[Solly Mack]

7. Piled High Deep