White House Has No Comprehensive E-Mail Archive (System Used by Clinton Admin Was Scrapped)

Source: WP

System Used by Clinton Was Scrapped

For years, the Bush administration has relied on an inadequate archiving system for storing the millions of e-mails sent through White House servers, despite court orders and statutes requiring the preservation of such records, according to documents and technical experts.

President Bush's White House early on scrapped a custom archiving system that the Clinton administration had adopted under a federal court order. From 2001 to 2003, the Bush White House also recorded over computer backup tapes that provided a last line of defense for preserving e-mails, even though a similar practice landed the Clinton administration in legal trouble.

As a result, several years' worth of electronic communication may have been lost, potentially including e-mails documenting administration actions in the run-up to the Iraq war.

White House officials said last week that they have "no reason to believe" that any e-mails were deliberately destroyed or are missing. But over the past year, they have acknowledged problems with archiving, saving and finding e-mails dating from early in the administration until at least 2005.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012102070.html

that out.

of course this is the admin that got in by thievery.

CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR THE FULL EFFECT!
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:eyes:
And they say it with a straight face.

the thing that gets me is how many just accept the bullshit:mad:

They are available commercially. I work on one that works well with both Exchange servers and Notes. My company is EMC, but other companies also sell these.

There is no excuse for a large organization not to have a good email archive system.

So WHY THE F*CK wouldn't the same land the Shrub Administration IN LEGAL TROUBLE TOO, instead of "no
reason to believe" that any e-mails were deliberately destroyed or are missing???? Ya know???
:grr:

I guess this administration doesn't want to be caught with any "Nixon tapes".

they were very obviously thinking ahead.

they didn't want an "uncomfortable moment" like nixon did with the infamous missing 16 minutes.

Since they've been illegally snagging all Internet traffic for god knows how long, I'm sure they have it. You just have to know the double-secret magic word to ask for them.

We'll see them in about fifty years, and by then nobody will be surprised at what they say--if anyone's left to read them.

At least shredders make enough noise to attract attention.