Marcy Wheeler: Disappearing White House E-Mails TIMELINE (Excellent)

[Hissyspit]

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/disappearing-white-house-emails-timeline

Disappearing White House Emails Timeline
By: emptywheel Thursday January 17, 2008 9:49 am

Jeff kicked my arse on a timing-related issue yesterday, so I thought I better lay out the disappearing White House email timing all nice and neat like. Much of the detail on emails relies on some very cool work Jeff did on the emails.

I'll move this over into a permanent timeline after you guys tell me what I'm missing (Jeff, I'm looking at you).

February 26, 2001: Gonzales informs White House staff they must preserve their email.

April 2001: GAO report on problems with ARMS and emails from the VP’s office in the Clinton Administration.

June 4, 2001: Bush announces plan to name CIO to manage and monitor email.

2001, unknown date: Susan Ralston prints off Rove email in response to Enron inquiry, gives that email to Alberto Gonzales, presumably alerting him to Rove's use of RNC servers for official emails.

Late 2001 to early 2002: White House deactivates ARMS system put in place by Clinton Administration to archive emails.

Between 2002 and 2003: White House converts from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange.

March 2003: Starting date of period during which White House has incomplete archives for emails.

July 11, 2003: Rove writes Hadley email immediately after his call with Matt Cooper.

September 26, 2003: DOJ starts an investigation into Plame leak.

- snip -

January 8, 2008: Judge gives White House five days to reveal what emails are recoverable from backup tapes.

January 15, 2008: White House CIO submits statement admitting the White House "recycled" backup tapes before October 2003.


MUCH MUCH MORE AT LINK

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[bleever]

2. Someone swifter than I already posted Gonzo's delay in issuing

the preservation order.

[bleever]

3. Kickworthy.

:kick:

[L. Coyote]

4. Deja Vus in the Archive = Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.

242 post compilation thread: Email-Gate FACTS: Felons, georgewbush.com, gwb43.com , et. al.
Mar-28-07 = http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

What I see in the timeline is a series of events intertwining the White House with Abramoff after the e-mails are being deleted. FBI begins looking into Abramoff in early 2004. From the time line:

May 8, 2004: ... Abramoff-Ralston email using RNC server printed by Greenberg-Traurig ... Ralston using RNC server to bypass public White House server....
June 2004: Senate Indian Affairs .. first subpoena ... Abramoff scandal....

It is fully two years after the FBI is investigating Abramoff when
We the People find out they were destroying all e-mail evidence.
We have John McCain to thank for covering up Abramoff until post Nov. 2004,
and perhaps for aiding the obstruction of justice that continues as we read the timeline.

[L. Coyote]

5. BIG rec

[L. Coyote]

8. visibility kick

[Solly Mack]

6. On the OMB WH page you can search FOIA /emails stored by ARMS

mostly dealing with CEQ (Council on Environmental Quality)...some from Dana Perino. Stored in pdf format

example below
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/foia/index3/arms_164.pdf

to search, go to google and type in

wild card symbol @eop.gov (wild card symbol = : * without the space)

.... and the OMB Search is the second hit ... Hit "more results" at the "OMB Search" link on the google page and get even more pages to go through

Yes, I did it the hard way but then I was er...typing at random one night...yeah, that's it...typing at random...I was just seeing something.



the search parameters at link (located at bottom of page)

(whitehouse.gov/ceq || A 87) (without the parenthesis)

while searching on the page, just change the last number (23, 15, 86, 88, 89, etc.)to get more files

You'll get announcements and other things as well as stored emails.


The majority of the emails stored with ARMS are dated 2002 and before

Not at all saying anyone will find anything interesting

[Supersedeas]

7. if only the lame ass Corporate Media would do this kind of homework-too many cocktails with insiders

[spanone]

9. kick