White House e-mails missing for a week after Saddam's capture

[kpete]

White House e-mails missing for a week after Saddam's capture
Nick Juliano
Published: Tuesday January 22, 2008

The full picture of what happened inside the White House in the days after Saddam Hussein's capture may be lost forever because of improper record keeping by the Bush administration that has caused millions of e-mails to be lost.

E-mails are missing from the White House Office for a one-week span in December 2003 beginning the day after US troops captured Saddam Hussein in Iraq, according to a report detailing events on some of the 473 days in which up to 10 million internal Bush administration e-mails are believed to have gone missing.

The report was released over the weekend by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which is suing to force the White House to detail how it archives e-mails to determine if it is in line with federal law.

There are e-mails missing from White House archives beginning Dec. 15, 2003 and continuing until Dec. 22, according to CREW's report. At the time, Saddam Hussein's capture dominated the nation's newspapers and was sure to be subject of much internal discussion, but historians and the public may never know what was zipping between White House Blackberries that day.


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[LondonReign2]

1. "Improper Record Keeping"

Is that what they call criminal behavior now?

[bdamomma]

5. sounds like getting rid of evidence to me

which is a crime.

[aquart]

7. Yes.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Smirk" - Commander AWOL

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Sneer." - Dickie "5 Military Deferments" Cheney

[jwirr]

3. I was thinking of ways we can help to force *ss and co. to pay for

this. Do we the people own those e-mails? It is our government. Did they not steal the documents from us?

[mike_c]

6. "time to bring out the gimp-- er, I mean former president of Iraq...."

:rofl:

[CJCRANE]

8. 10 *million* emails!?

Losing one email could be considered acceptable, losing two unfortunate, losing three careless...

but 10 MILLION!!!

:wtf:

[Spinzonner]

9. Collateral Damage

Losing all of them was necessary to make losing only a few not seem suspicious.

But of course anything regarding the Bush Misadministration has to be looked at with suspicions.

[Raster]

14. Losing *one* email is unacceptable AND ILLEGAL!!!

[spanone]

10. bu$h* playing hangman on his laptop

[tanyev]

11. How interesting. Trying to hide something?

[spartan61]

12. Remember the 18 1/2 minutes that were erased from the

Nixon tapes? That was a big deal that helped to bring down Nixon. To me this is so much bigger in scope and the bush administration will probably get away with all of their cover ups. I just don't understand it. Why aren't the American people up in arms about all of this? Wait...I know why. Because the majority of the American people just don't give a damn.

[elizfeelinggreat]

17. I agree it's worse than the tapes

It is much worse than the Nixon tapes but I don't agree that the people aren't upset about it.

His approval rating is abysmal so we know the American people do not approve of him and his actions. The high turn outs at the primaries lead me to believe that people really are giving a damn this time around.

Most importantly, no matter how up in arms the people get the media doesn't report it. They just don't. Look at the massive protests against the war and the coverage of those. They got away with it and they will continue to do what works for their corporate driven political coverage. I'm much more upset about the media than the people ( who are not informed because of the MSM's actions ). I bet they have not mentioned this in days and have no plans to cover any news about it in the future if they can help it. That really pisses me off.

[fed-up]

13. aren't there some that believe he was captured much earlier? those are the emails to find! nt

[Hydra]

18. This pretty much substantiates that theory

At the very least, something happened during that period that they would rather we not know about. That just makes it more interesting, IMO.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

19. Yes, why you would think they'd WANT all the "Yay, we got him!" emails released.

I mean, that's what they were all saying, right? :shrug: MKJ

[tanyev]

20. That was my first thought, too.

Maybe the missing emails verify that the capture story we were breathlessly given was a total PR fabrication.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

15. CREW is doing important work. K & R!

:kick: MKJ

[elehhhhna]

16. I wanna know what was ATTACHED to those emails, if ya get the drift...