TIME Magazine: WHERE ARE THE WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS?

TIME MAGAZINE: WHERE ARE THE WHITE HOUSE E-MAILS?
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30878
Michael Weisskopf // TIME Magazine


24 Jan 2008 // When histories of the Iraq war are written, scholars will want to know how the Bush administration came to grips with one of the nation's costliest intelligence blunders: inflated estimates of Saddam Hussein's arsenal and his links to Al-Qaeda. But they may have to reconstruct some pivotal moments without access to a key channel of official communication, e-mails flowing to and from the President's closest White House aides. According to one official analysis, there were 12 days without archived e-mail from the President's inner offices during a troubled period, December 2003 to February 2004, when it became clear that the central premise of the war — the presence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq — had collapsed.

Those dozen days are part of a large body of records that White House technical experts had reported missing last fall in a closed meeting with the staff of Rep. Henry Waxman's House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Last week Waxman revealed the extent of the archives allegedly missing from several executive offices: a total of 473 days from 2003 to 2005. One expert put together a chart that seemed to indicate substantial amounts of e-mail traffic had not been retained from White House computer servers. Waxman said he made the allegations public after a White House official insisted that "we have actually no reason to believe that any e-mails are missing."

But a non-profit watchdog group says that situation is even worse than Waxman had presented it. Anne Weismann, chief counsel of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said the Democratic congressman's analysis only focuses on days of no e-mail records, omitting weeks for which there was a significantly low volume of email. An informant told her group that the White House typically logs as many as 100,000 e-mails a day but there were days when as few as five were archived. CREW has sued the White House over the missing e-mail.

The Presidential Records Act requires preservation of all White House documents and messages, including e-mail. .....................

CREW Chief Counsel Anne Weismann talks about the missing White House emails
17 January 2008 // Source: Aimee Allison // KPFA - San Francisco
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30802


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Mother Jones' Coverage of the Missing White House Emails Story
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/missing-white-house-emails-index.html

Analysis Shows Possible Pattern in Missing White House Emails
(January 25, 2008) http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6994_since_last_spri.html

White House: What Missing Emails?
(January 17, 2008) http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6905_tony_fratto_can.html

White House 'Recycled' Backups of its Email Records
(January 16, 2008) http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6883_white_house_doe.html

Still M.I.A.: Millions of White House Emails
(January 10, 2008) http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6830_your_biannual_w.html

On the Attack: Are the Dems Moving Toward A Contempt Vote? .....

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This archived DU thread links to many threads covering this issue when it broke

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x523978

NOTHING

he feels like he is above everything, how fast would I like to see him fall off his pompous pedestal.

and with halliburton in dubai, it'll be a relatively short commute.

This is just an example of what they think this phrase means. No accountability, above the law, etc.
The Professor

in the early part of next january.

this crew is going to end up as the ugliest smear on the history of the united states.

What a sociopathic menace.

What is the purpose of TIME magazine? Informing us or incessantly asking questions?

Does Jesus really exist????


:wtf:

nt

People do not commit a cover up crime that is more serious than the crime it covers up.
We at least know the minimum seriousness of what crimes are being erased from history.