More Obstructionist Crap From Bushco-225 days of missing e-mails - NO Intention of complying-None

[kpete]

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.
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The draft document outlines a process in which private contractors would attempt to retrieve lost e-mail from 35,000 disaster recovery backup tapes dating back to October 2003, a period covering such events as growing violence in Iraq, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the criminal probe into the disclosure that Valerie Plame had worked for the CIA.

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more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/20/AR2008082002617.html

[Ian David]

1. And they complained that Clinton's staffers stole all the "W" keys from the keyboards. n/t

[Kutjara]

2. So they expect us to believe 35,000 backup tapes...

...somehow got corrupted all at once? How did that happen, then? Was there a nuclear attack that EMPed the tape repository? I think even our media may have reported something like that. Maybe someone accidentally recorded over the tapes, but it would take a hell of a lot of episodes of "Walker, Texas Asshole" to fill 35k tapes.

So what happened? Enquiring minds want to know (as if they don't already).