If CREW's (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington) sources are correct, there may have been as many as 5 million e-mails unlawfully deleted from White House servers between 2003 and 2006.
In a startling new revelation, CREW has also learned through two confidential sources that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost over five million emails generated between March 2003 and October 2005. The White House counsel’s office was advised of these problems in 2005 and CREW has been told that the White House was given a plan of action to recover these emails, but to date nothing has been done to rectify this significant loss of records.
Man. Rosemary Woods and Fawn Hall were pikers.
Many of these documents are probably routine and innocuous, but some may have been proof of illegal activity (I mean violation of the Hatch Act, which disallows use of government computers, personnel and offices for political purposes). That's also way too many missing documents to be merely accidental deletions.
Posted by Linkmeister at April 12, 2007 11:01 AM | TrackBackI also heard that many emails were mailed from RNC computers.
That should be easy to get ahold of, if they haven't been deleted also....
Five million emails in two and a half years averages 166,667 emails a month. I thought these people were illiterate. Of course, it's only email. I'm with Lee Iacocca - let's throw the bums out.
Posted by: hedera at April 12, 2007 06:22 PMWhat? The White House's mail servers don't have backups?
Posted by: Serge at April 13, 2007 05:13 AM