22 million "lost" Bush-era emails recovered

[DaddyTorgo]

Score one for Freedom of Information Act and the public's right to know what the fuck was going on with the unjustified firings of US Attorneys and the months before the invasion of Iraq. Also several days worth around the Valerie Plame incident.

I would raise the question of why not restore all of the damn emails hmm?

Millions of Bush administration e-mails recovered - CNN.com

To be fair and balanced i present the following excerpt from Scott Stanzel, former deputy press secretary in the Bush White House, denying that there was a conspiracy to "mislabel" lor lose the emails:

But Scott Stanzel, a former deputy press secretary in the Bush White House, said the group "has consistently tried to create a spooky conspiracy out of standard IT issues."

"We always indicated that there is an e-mail archiving system and a disaster recovery system," Stanzel said. "We also indicated that e-mails not properly archived could be found on disaster recovery tapes. There is a big, big difference between something not being properly archived and it being 'lost' or 'missing,' as CREW would say."



Monday's settlement allows for 94 days of e-mail traffic, scattered between January 2003 to April 2005, to be restored from backup tapes. Of those 94 days, 40 were picked by statistical sample; another 21 days were suggested by the White House; and the groups that filed suit picked 33 that seemed "historically significant," from the months before the invasion of Iraq to the period when the firings of U.S. attorneys were being planned.

[RainMaker]

I don't think they'll find much on them. I mean that administration was fairly stupid, but not to the level that they'd send incriminating e-mails off the White House server.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

I don't think they'll find much on them. I mean that administration was fairly stupid, but not to the level that they'd send incriminating e-mails off the White House server.

I'll take that bet. Tho there's gotta be a decent chance that if there are incriminating ones, there are some people savvy enough to scrub the backups, too.

But I'll also take the bet that even if there is a smoking gun from Karl Rove to Bob Novak, copying Dick Cheney with the words "Out Valerie Plame and ruin her and her husband's career" that there will be ample denial on the right about what they did.

SI

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by sterlingice

I'll take that bet. Tho there's gotta be a decent chance that if there are incriminating ones, there are some people savvy enough to scrub the backups, too.

But I'll also take the bet that even if there is a smoking gun from Karl Rove to Bob Novak, copying Dick Cheney with the words "Out Valerie Plame and ruin her and her husband's career" that there will be ample denial on the right about what they did.

SI

+1

[JPhillips]

Hooray. Ten years from now we may get to see an email that makes it look like Bush misled us into Iraq. Imagine the outcry.

[DaddyTorgo]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Hooray. Ten years from now we may get to see an email that makes it look like Bush misled us into Iraq. Imagine the outcry.

lol. this too.

actually the thread was mostly an attempt to provide an example on how to post a politically-themed thread while retaining some semblance of "fair & balanced."