White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived

[rateyes]

Source: Rawstory

The White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-released filing concerning millions of e-mails alleged to have gone missing or been deleted.

"A White House declaration filed late last night ... makes the stunning admission that the White House failed to preserve ANY backup tapes for the period March 1, 2003 through May 22, 2003...

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Missing on purpose. Dammit Pelosi & Conyers, you should have already had these war criminals impeached. :banghead:

[leftofcool]

1. Thanks Nancy

[librechik]

2. oops, we forgot that we were making history? or oops we realized we were criminals

and had to cover our tracks?


NOBODY WILL EVER BE THE JUDGE

[rateyes]

3. I vote the latter. nt

[blm]

4. Gee - but if history would see their mission as the right one they WOULD have assured preservation

of their proudest achievements....right?

Fuck these fascists and any Democrat who has protected them over the years.

[rateyes]

6. Fascist is the word for those bastards. nt

[otohara]

5. Failed on PURPOSE

they can't stop lying, they will have to lie until they die.

[SpiralHawk]

7. "Smirk." - Commander AWOL

[Journeyman]

8. Wasn't it the Church Lady who used to say: "How very convenient. . ." ? . . .

[rateyes]

11. I think it was. And, there are federal prisons in Texas that would

be convenient for Pickles and the twins to visit, too.

[Clear Blue Sky]

9. How convenient...

[shanti]

10. and we continue

to lie down and take it! :grr:

[sellitman]

12. Chutzpah!

Just amazing. Our Democratic leaders can't be bothered to do their jobs and Impeach these Fascists either. The DLC thinks this would tie up the poor goverment too much. What uttter BS!

[Zodiak]

13. The DLC actually covers for them

Their excuses change nearly daily, but the overarching goal remains the same....protect the BFEE.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

14. Oh well, I am sure it was just a lot of "LOLs" and Calendar invites anyhow

[LuckyLib]

15. In the pre-E-mail days, this would be the equivalent of shredding WH documents and correspondence.

Criminal behavior from a criminal enterprise.

[hootinholler]

30. In the post email days it still is! n/t

[Pawel K]

16. As a network administrator that deals with the same server they are lying

those tapes are still around or they were destroyed on purpose. They use microsoft exchagne server for their communications. I've work with this server on a daily basis. If it was configured to archive emails, which it clearly was since they have archived emails from before that period, they somebody intentionally stopped the archive from taking place or destroyed the archive afterwards. There is absolutely no way in hell that this was accidental. But they will get a pass on this from the media and from congress.

[lonestarnot]

17. I just wish someone would say, hugh ugh besides me on the pass!

[yardwork]

18. Thank you for posting this info. I hope that others speak up as well.

We know that the media won't report this.

[PufPuf23]

19. Calling all Techies!

Am I wrong in thinking that regardless of backup tapes, that the emails or many could be recovered from servers and harddrives in general (or for specific individual)? Also wasn't their another abnormality in that RNC email adresses were uused for WH emails? This stinks but so does much of the last 8 years.

[ramapo]

22. Why aren't the techies made to testify?

Somebody knows the policies and procedures in place at the time. There is no way that this was an accidental deletion.

[Nihil]

44. Hmmm ...

> Somebody knows the policies and procedures in place at the time.
> There is no way that this was an accidental deletion.

There only needs to be one person to actually do this, regardless of
how many (probably a very small number anyway) were on the technical
staff at that time.

I wonder how many unfortunate car accidents, holiday misadventures
and suicides there have been in the intervening years ...?
:think:

[debbierlus]

20. Doing what is right for what is right sake is alien to most of Congress

I think people hold the myth that public servants actually serve the public. Most just serve their own interest. Only when the people FORCE them to do the right thing will they do the right thing. And, a large percentage of people in this country haven't a single clue.

The American experiment of democracy is over. Fascist corporations rule the country and the world. They will, of course, the cycle of history repeating. We can only pray their is enough time left for the cycle to swing the other way, and the human race survives in some form.

[ramapo]

21. Makes Rose Mary Woods seem pretty lame

She only erased 18.5 minutes

[damntexdem]

23. Hey, remember 'no one is above the law, not even the President of the U.S.'?

That was a GOP mantra during the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

That must mean that all Republicans in Congress would vote right now to impeach and convict Dubya for breaking the law in order to cover up Administration actions lying us into war, right? LOL!!!

[dave123williams]

24. They are required by law to maintain those records. Criminality in the name of ' Spreading Freedom'

Will these dumbfucks just PLEASE fold up their tents and go back to Mayberry already? PLEEEEEEEEEZE?

[jmowreader]

25. Next week's headline: "White House admits post-war e-mails not archived"

Why the hell would they save the e-mails? If they did, things like...oh, that Saddam was cooperating as fully as he possibly could...might surface. That would be bad.

The pre-war runup was pretty astounding, because it seems that Bush wanted shit you knew Saddam couldn't produce.

[Xipe Totec]

26. The Memory Hole is Real nt

[Solly Mack]

27. lolololol

[Winterblues]

28. Who cares anyway, everyone knows accountability is "Off the Table"

There will be NO Accountability for these Criminals.....

[hootinholler]

29. How Conveeenient!

Insert Church Lady photo here.

-Hoot

[Tesla]

31. There is no way, this is *'s erased tapes for sure

but when is it going to bother people??

[defendandprotect]

41. Funny thing about "bothering people" . . .

You would think we'd all be marching on DC . . .
but evidently what might be worrying some of the GOPPERS is that the gas prices might bring
people to DC to wring their necks! And, truly, nothing like something hitting the pockebook.
It's immediate.

Guantanamo and Iraq are far away ---

[FreepFryer]

32. *cough* bullshit *cough* (n/t)

[Doctor_J]

33. Yet another impeachable offense

too bad no one will have sex with Smirk. Then we'd REALLY have something

[jwirr]

34. Isn't failure to document WH records against the law in and of itself? nt

[jtrockville]

38. Yes. It's a clear violation of the Presidential Records Act.

But so what? That's the least of the offenses this criminal adminstration has committed.

[mitchum]

35. Another "fuck you" to "the little people"

[lovuian]

36. We are going to WAR and a Preemptive Strike War

and we don't keep our EmAILS

They just have NO CREDIBILTY

[creeksneakers2]

37. They all belong in prison n/t

[Thor_MN]

39. They need to publish the names of all email admins and their IT managers

involved.

To not retain these records is criminal. The people involved with the maintenance of these servers should be in prison, but I would settle for never being allowed near a computer again. If I were a hiring manager, I'd be checking names on resumes against that list.

[Nihil]

45. Good luck with that ...

You'll get so bogged down in suit/counter-suit that even a
non-technical lawyer wouldn't touch your case.

(+ see #44 for my thoughts on the subject :hi: )

[defendandprotect]

40. Yeah, but, the TELECOM companies should have copies . . . right?????

By any chance, were they specifically told not to not "catch" any of the GOP material?

[Nihil]

46. Unlikely.

> Yeah, but, the TELECOM companies should have copies . . . right?????
> By any chance, were they specifically told not to not "catch" any of
> the GOP material?

No need to be so inventive about a GOP-specific filter ... not only
would there be no need for the information to leave the servers involved
(i.e., never going across the telecom companies network) but it would
be a serious breach of security if they *did* get a copy as this would
imply that they have access to every single document transmitted ...

No, this is a simple case of "Oops, I deleted it ... how sad" followed
either by a suitable bonus or (more likely) a tragic & unexpected death.

[defendandprotect]

42. To the criminal mind having to say we "forgot" to archive might be better than "earased"-- ???

[liberal N proud]

43. The fact that they didn't archive this stuff tells all

Nixon recorded his conversations because he thought it would be his mark on history. It was just not the way he intended.

These assholes knew anything they said or did would be their mark on history and didn't want the evidence to be used against them

The criminal intent is right in front of everyones nose yet nothing is done about it.

[Tesha]

47. Golly!

Who'da thunk it?

Tesha

[LynnTheDem]

48. Gee, who's shocked & surprised?

[Supersedeas]

49. spitting on the Hatch Act and laughing at Congress as they do