Bush Admin Deleted 10 Million Emails But Claims They're Not Hiding a Thing
01.17.08 (2:17 pm) posted by Genia
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The Bush Administration has admitted they "routinely
overwrote" taped emails between 2001 and 2003. According to AfterDowningStreet.org, over 10 million emails were
illegally deleted. Ten million.
After reading the WaPo story, I keep going back to the lame argument Patriot Act lovers often present when left-leaning folks like myself
voice our concern about the government's desire to actlikeBig Brother: "if you're not doing anything wrong, why do you care
if the government is watching you?" Let's run with that theory. If the Bush Administration hasn't done anything wrong, why have they
deleted 10 million taped emails?
A blogging colleague wonders about the legitimacy of the WaPo story simply because it's a WaPo story.
It doesn't really matter where the story is published, the fact still remains:
the Bush Administration admits it deleted taped emails:
"More than two years after this problem was first discovered by White House staff," Waxman said,
"the White House still has not identified the cause of the problem, determined the volume
of emails lost, or developed a plan for restoring those emails that were lost."
In a related controversy, House investigators have determined that hundreds of
thousands of e-mails from former presidential adviser Karl Rove and other White House aides are missing because they were sent using external accounts set up by the Republican National Committee.
Don't you just love the way they use the word "lost" instead of "deleted?"
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