Author Topic: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003.  (Read 577 times)

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brawndolicious

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011602202.html?nav=hcmodule

yeah...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011602202.html?nav=hcmodule
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E-mail messages sent and received by White House personnel during the first three years of the Bush administration were routinely recorded on tapes that were "recycled," the White House's chief information officer said in a court filing this week.

During the period in question, the Bush presidency faced some of its biggest controversies, including the Iraq war, the leak of former CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson's name and the CIA's destruction of interrogation videotapes.

White House spokesman Tony Fratto said he has no reason to believe any e-mails were deliberately destroyed.

From 2001 to October 2003, the White House's practice was to use the same backup tape each day to copy new as well as old e-mails, he said, making it possible that some of those e-mails could still be recovered even from a tape that was repeatedly overwritten. "We are continuing to analyze our systems," Fratto said last night.

The court filing said tapes were recycled before October 2003, and at that point, the White House "began preserving and storing all backup tapes."

Two federal statutes require presidential communications, including e-mails involving senior White House aides, to be preserved for the nation's historical record, and some historians responded to the court disclosure yesterday by urging that the White House's actions be thoroughly probed.

"There certainly could have been hugely important materials there . . . and of course they're not owned by President Bush or anybody in the administration, they're owned by the public," said presidential historian and author Robert Dallek. "Given how secretive this administration has been, it of course fans the flames and suspicions about what has been destroyed here. I hope we'll get an investigation."
yeah...

brawndolicious

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Re: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003.
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2008, 08:24:39 PM »
I mean, it's just at the point where you're not even surprised when you read things like this.  Clinton managed to keep records, but somehow Bush couldn't.  I bet they're going to blame their IT guy and say he was a noob.

flonamen

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Re: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003.
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2008, 08:29:32 PM »
God told him to delete them duh!

APF

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Re: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003.
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2008, 08:30:54 PM »
Well I'm certainly not going to vote for him in the 2004 election.
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brawndolicious

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Re: White House Says It Routinely Overwrote E-Mail Tapes From 2001 to 2003.
« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2008, 09:07:51 PM »
we're just waiting these last few months out.  They're probably saving the stupidest shit for last.  I wonder how many dead hooker's they'll find in Laura's closet.