White House Admits Destroying Back-up Copies of Emails

White HouseOn January 15th, in a court filing submitted in response to CREW's lawsuit, the White House admitted destroying back-up copies of some of its emails. Over 10 million emails are missing from between March 2003 and October 2005 and the White House stated that up until October of 2003, back-up tapes containing the only copies of some of the missing emails were recycled.

This means that there likely are no back-up copies of emails deleted during the period of March 2003 through October 2003. During this time, top White House officials leaked the covert identity of Valerie Plame Wilson and the Justice Department began a criminal investigation into the leak.

The White House has offered no explanation as to why the emails were deleted, how many were actually lost and why it never acted to recover any of the missing emails, even when presented with a recovery plan by its own Office of Administration.

After filing this court document, the White House deputy press secretary denied that there were, in fact, any missing emails. As a result, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), released a letter stating that the White House had informed committee staff that there were 473 days for which no emails were stored for one or more of the White House offices. CREW prepared an analysis of the national news on the dates for which the emails are missing, available on http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JKVLP7%2BJDfBTfZXlQstuttJLld%2FEvIA0">CREW's website.

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KoKeY%2FBdEqmtHDFUR%2BnHR9JLld%2FEvIA0">Read more

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ykhMRFkBNWHtkkEnhwesF9JLld%2FEvIA0">Read The Washington Post story

stored in the Endless Shredder department.

I wonder how that compares to the 18 minutes missing from the Nixon tapes. And, who is this informant?

actions speak louder than words though.

"capture".

:kick: for CREW