DaddyTorgo
12-15-2009, 11:42 AM
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 (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/14/white.house.emails/index.html)
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.
I would raise the question of why not restore all of the damn emails hmm?
Millions of Bush administration e-mails recovered - CNN.com (http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/14/white.house.emails/index.html)
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.