White House had daily audits of e-mails, which suggests missing e-mails were destroyed

[EV_Ares]

Earlier this year, CREW broke the story that five million e-mails were missing from the White House system. We issued a report, Without A Trace, detailing the legal issues behind the story of the White House e-mail scandal. Even top Bush officials could not deny our findings. Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has been investigating the missing e-mails. Yesterday, we learned that the White House conducted daily audits of its e-mail system. As CREW's Anne Weismann told Bloomberg News, that certainly suggests the e-mails weren't lost in a technical glitch:

The revelation that there were daily audits suggests that e-mails were destroyed, said Anne Weismann, general counsel of the nonprofit watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sued the Bush administration in May over the missing e-mails.

"It's hard to imagine it could have been a technical problem," Weismann said in an interview. It is "incomprehensible that e-mail could go missing and it not be caught."

Link:
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/30025

[lonestarnot]

1. emails are NEVER lost.

[Olney Blue]

2. How can the WH emails be retrieved?

[Atman]

4. Via a subpoena which is actually ENFORCED

As long as they know the Jellyfish Party won't do a goddamn thing to force them to "find" them, they have no incentive to do so.

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[lonestarnot]

7. put some people in jail.

[lonestarnot]

8. double posting much? Yes.

[Canuckistanian]

6. Not even with a concerted effort?

I know that emails leave copies of themselves wherever they go, but can that trail not be traced?

Or is it not practical?

[tridim]

3. Who did the daily audits, and who gave the order to do so?

Should be an easy question for them to answer.

The WH is so screwed. :)

[rodeodance]

5. According to the report, there was involved an "outside contractor" who conducted the daily audit of

Sidley Austin
Submitted by Anonymous on 31 August 2007 - 10:35am.

According to the report, there was involved an "outside contractor" who conducted the daily audit of the email. Here the claim of executive privilege seems weaker than ever.

And who might have that "outside contractor" have been? Betcha it was a law firm which specializes in “document retention” issues, I’ll just betcha.

Sidley Austin.
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