White House Must Answer For Missing Emails

Lucas123 writes "A District Court judge this week ruled in favor of a Washington-based watchdog group, allowing them to question White House officials about missing emails involving controversial issues. The subjects include the release of the identity of a former CIA operative, the reasons for launching the war in Iraq and actions by the US Department of Justice. The group had filed suit [PDF] last May against the White House Office of Administration, seeking access to White House email under the federal Freedom of Information Act. The discovery ruling is bringing to light issues of email retention in businesses and other private organizations. We've previously discussed the White House's difficulties with email."

Recycling

[milsoRgen]

But I thought the white house was simply recycling their data storage media by overwriting it with more current data. Poor W. he can't win for nothing...

Well...

[martinQblank]

Waterboarding shouldn't be out of the question to get the answers. Right?

/dev/null

[EmbeddedJanitor]

I stored them there.... I swear it.... now they're gone!

Re:So am I the only one holding my breath?

[Bootle]

Oh no, now Bush is going after Ireland?

Re:But at the end of the day....

[snl2587]

If the Attorney General gets to decide who to prosecute, they will not go after their own office.

Except that, due to oversight, it will not be left to the Attorney General.

Re:Expected answer

[flyingsquid]

So what? There are no criminal penalties involved.

You don't get it, do you? When you mess with the Presidential Records Act, you're messing with the entire National Archives system. That means they take away your National Archives Library Card. Want to check out that official copy of the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Bill, or the Marine Mammal Protection Act? Sorry, buster. You're gonna have to make do with a photocopy. And guess what? Without that card, you can still get in to see the Constitution... but not after hours.

SLASHDOT MUST ANSWER FOR MISSING POSTS!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

They're censoring anything under a two, those fucking tyrants!

Bring back the page-lengthening and page-widening posts!!!

It wasn't the sex

[EmbeddedJanitor]

It was messing a pretty blue dress and wasting a fine cigar.

Re:"I do not recall."

[ArcherB]

Or, as Reagan would have said, "I do not recall." I believe he said that over and over again when being questioned about his role in the Iran/Contra affair.

He had Alzheimer's you insensitive clod!

Why don't you make fun of Roosevelt for not jogging on the Whitehouse lawn?

There's a simple explanation for all of this.

[Revotron]

They use Windows Server.

Case closed.

Re:Expected answer

[Scudsucker]

They would have to because it would be little more then a political witch hunt.

Huh, and I was just talking [slashdot.org] about wingnut hypocrisy, too. You talk [slashdot.org] about how Clinton was impeached for lying under oath (which he didn't do [huppi.com]) and two minutes later you blow off any impeachment of Bush and Cheney (who have broken many laws and Constitutional amendments) as "political witch hunt"? You're even faster than Pudge. [slashdot.org] You need to be taken out back and pistol whipped for being intolerably full of shit. Repeatedly.