White House taking bids on e-mail recovery project (?)

[deminks]

Somehow, I don't think they are very serious:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/27191969.html

WASHINGTON - The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained by The Associated Press.

The nine-page outline of the White House's e-mail problems invites companies to bid on a project to recover the missing electronic messages.

The work would be carried out through April 19, 2009, according to the Office of Administration request for contractors' proposals, which was dated June 20.

Last week, the White House declined to comment on the document.

On Wednesday, the White House refused to talk about internal White House contracting procedures, but said the information is "outdated and seriously inaccurate." It would not elaborate. The White House also declined to say whether it has hired a contractor for the work yet.

[billyoc]

1. Sure they're serious, they'll give a sweetheart contract to a crony

to set up a recovery system for the WH email servers.

Problem is, they used RNC email servers for the last 8 fucking years.

[peacetalksforall]

2. 99 to 1 that it will be Booz Allen or some other friends and they will recover nothing.

[ben_meyers]

3. Riiight!! We've been down this path before

There seems to be a black hole when it comes to archiving White House e-mail.

White House e-mail administrator says he never told Clinton about missing messages
From CNN Producer Ted Barrett at U.S. District Court

August 23, 2000
Web posted at: 6:29 p.m. EDT (2229 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Clinton administration official who oversees the troubled White House e-mail system testified Wednesday he never told President Clinton about the computer problem that prevented thousands of White House e-mails from being properly stored and archived.

Mark Lindsay, the assistant to the president for Management and Administration, also told a court he did not threaten White House workers with jail if they went public with the problem that arose at the height of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/23/wh.email/


Maybe a magnetic field or something.

[NightWatcher]

4. Give me a million bucks and I wont recover shit. I'll just make copies for Obama's Atty. General

[tanyev]

5. Companies who really know how to do this kind of recovery need not apply.