Why is it taking White House officials so long to restore millions of deleted e-mails from the backup tapes they claim to have?
The e-mails in question date from March 2003 to October 2005 — a crucial period that includes the Iraq invasion, a presidential election and Hurricane Katrina.
White House officials have known for more than two years that the messages were deleted — a clear violation of presidential records-preservation statutes. But the president’s aides won’t explain what happened, what sort of backups they have and what they’re doing about it.
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But earlier this month Damon Poeter wrote for an online marketing trade publication, ChannelWeb Network: “When Congress asked about 5 million executive branch e-mails that went missing, a White House lawyer pointed the finger at an outside IT contractor.
“The only problem? No such IT contractor exists, according to sources close to the investigation of a possible violation of the Federal Records and Presidential Records acts.”
The White House has yet to reveal the secret identity of this IT contractor, two months after Waxman’s deadline. Not that I would expect an official contract for this kind of thing. But what if someone who was already providing illegal IT services was called in to do a little work on the side?
It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
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Xan, are you alive?
Is everything OK? This email has been your beat…
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
Technically speaking "my" emails were the RNC shit
The “gwb43.com”, SmarTech and Coptix, and that little matter that has fallen off the edge of the earth or at least off Lookout Mountain.
The stuff Froomkin is talking about—a story that iirc is at least a year old, about there being no “contractor” or so they claim—is the actual official email, the .gov shit. This is absolutely, positively, incontrovertibly, no-question-about-it illegal to dispose of in any way or for any reason, by anyone but the National Archivist himself.
Although it is also consigned to oblivion that practically the first thing Bushyboy did when taking office, I mean early spring of ’01, was sack the old Archivist, virtually forcing him into retirement a year or more before it was scheduled, and replacing him with a person of His own choosing.
Not much attention was paid at the time even, since who TF pays attention to who the National Archivist is. I looked into it as there was some outrage on the HNN boards about it, but it never got beyond the National Association of Archivists or whatever their professional body is called. And even they were mostly pissed at the disrespect being shown to the guy retiring, not accusing the incoming one of any misdeeds.
Although of course we didn’t know what sort of things to look for back in those days of childlike innocence….
One more day of data transfer from FrontPage to Expressions, sigh. I will try to dig this stuff back up after that if nobody else beats me to it.
(Looks around pleadingly, offering a colorful hand-crocheted item of indeterminate shape and uncertain use use in a plaintive sort of begging way.)
Xan, at least you're alive!
No need for the crocheted item… In fact, I’m not sure what I’d do with a crocheted item.
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
crochet?
i do that, too.
I made lap blankets for everybody for Christmas a few years ago.
Time to think about a round of these:
from this pattern:
http://hometown.aol.com/lffunt/hexslip.h…