Up to 1,000 days of e-mails "missing" from White House servers, 1 million messages

[jackson_dem]

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By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 26, 2008; 4:12 PM

A 2005 technical analysis found that up to 1,000 days of e-mails were missing from White House servers during a 2-1/2 year period, amounting to more than 1 million separate e-mail messages, according to statements from a former White House technology manager released today.

Steven McDevitt also said in written answers to questions from a House committee that the White House's e-mail system was so "primitive" that there was a high risk that data would be lost.

McDevitt, who formerly oversaw many of the White House's computer systems, said he oversaw a wide-ranging study that found e-mail missing for hundreds of days from January 2003 through August 2005. He also told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that security was so lax that e-mail could be modified by anyone on the computer network until the middle of 2005.

The statements from McDevitt, which were released during a hearing today by Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), provide further details into the problems that have plagued the White House e-mail system throughout the Bush administration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602312.html?hpid=topnews

[DJ13]

1. "provide further details into the problems that have plagued the White House e-mail system"

What the naive call "problems", the WH calls "cover" for their assault on the Constitution.

[Avalux]

2. lol - not "missing" - deliberately deleted.

How could anyone believe the WH would have such a lousy system that would lose 1000 emails a day? Those emails weren't lost.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Wapo can print stuff like that

with a straight face? Jeez, I wouldn't wanna meet those dudes across a poker table.

[L. Coyote]

4. "e-mail could be modified by anyone on the computer network until the middle of 2005"

Now that sure seems like preparation for release of incriminating e-mails! The e-mails may be missing from the WH, but are they missing elsewhere, like at the destination of the e-mails, on back up tapes, etc.--mybe on the computers of cabinet members, staffers everywhere, etc., etc. They do not know which e-mail might surface, esp. if the are actually "missing."

It is far likelier they have every damn one of them
somewhere political or legal, like on the server at a law firm.

Maybe on the servers in the Chicago office of that firm! Did you look there? I know who knows!!

[Spinzonner]

5. How Conveeenient

[Hydra]

6. God, assuming you were able to recover the shredded datafiles

Can you imagine shoveling all that s*** to get at the incriminating stuff? *shudder*