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Bush Secret Document Shredding Soars 600%

radaronline.com — Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since George W. Bush took office.In 2000, the feds spent $452,807 to make unpleasant truths go away; by 2006, the "Cheney Effect" had bumped that number up to $2.9 million. And by halfway through 2007, the feds almost matched that number, with $2.7 million and counting.

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  • Impishparrot, on 12/15/2007, -2/+157Shredded documents up 600%, tapes destroyed, 10 million plus e-mails gone missing. There are laws covering the destruction of these materials and the Bush Administration appears to be ignoring them all. Specifically, the Presidential Records Act (PRA) of 1978:

    Specifically, the Presidential Records Act:

    Defines and states public ownership of the records.

    Places the responsibility for the custody and management of incumbent Presidential records with the President.

    Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once he has obtained the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal.

    Requires that the President and his staff take all practical steps to file personal records separately from Presidential records.

    Establishes a process for restriction and public access to these records. Specifically, the PRA allows for public access to Presidential records through the Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) beginning five years after the end of the Administration, but allows the President to invoke as many as six specific restrictions to public access for up to twelve years. The PRA also establishes procedures for Congress, courts, and subsequent Administrations to obtain special access to records that remain closed to the public, following a thirty-day notice period to the former and current Presidents..

    Requires that Vice-Presidential records are to be treated in the same way as Presidential records.

    Does anyone believe that the Archivist of the United States has reviewd and approved all of these shreddings?

  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -3/+76Chart looks good to me, how can I invest money in this?
  • statiktv, on 12/15/2007, -1/+62theres a budget for shredding paper?
  • finnodave, on 12/15/2007, -1/+55I think people have to stop telling themselves, "No that would never happen here, to us, in our country, in this day and age." As soon as people wake up, and see how history repeats itself time and time again, then there will be a chance for this insanity to stop.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -4/+49This has been the worst presidency, rubber stamped by the Republican majority Congress for 6 years with well over 200 scandals (see: http://scandalist.info/ & here too http://www.netrootsmass.net/Hugh/Bush_list.html) & several indictments & even some Republican officials behind bars as we speak. Real smooth right wingers. Go to http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3011profile_ ... & learn about neoconservatism.
  • toastgodsupreme, on 12/15/2007, -1/+46Takes a lot of money to shred a document like the constitution of the United States.
  • spyd3rweb, on 12/15/2007, -0/+42Gotta shred all the evidence before he's out of office.
  • blablaman, on 12/15/2007, -2/+31Yea, nobody knows about it because they usually shred it.
  • mikeroySoft, on 10/19/2009, -0/+24"the feds spent $452,807 to make unpleasant truths go away"
    I strangely feel that the overall cost of making those unpleasant truths go away was somewhat higher than that...
  • mcfarnsberry, on 12/15/2007, -0/+20If the President doesn't have anything to hide then he shouldn't mind a little warrantless snooping of these documents before they're shredded...for national security reasons of course.
  • rishubhav, on 12/15/2007, -6/+26The sad part is for all the Dem's rhetoric if Hillary gets elected this chart will just continue...
  • twinklyJesus, on 12/15/2007, -2/+22If its so secret, how do we know its up 600%?
  • DEFSMAC, on 12/15/2007, -1/+20why didn't they shred the papers that had the amount of money all the paper shreding cost?
  • ReturnToFreedom, on 12/15/2007, -0/+17I bet the Constitution put up a good fight as it was being shredded. Luckily for us, there is a magical process that can put those pieces of paper back together, it's called impeachment.
  • Terr01, on 12/15/2007, -1/+17Feh, Bush violated that law practically on his first day.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13233
  • JedicodeWarrior, on 12/15/2007, -1/+15Hopefully his legacy will be serving life as the soap-boy in the men's shower.
  • coredump0x01, on 12/15/2007, -6/+19Vote for Giuliani.
  • JedicodeWarrior, on 12/15/2007, -1/+14I look forward to the day when voting for president is no longer simply voting for the one that will ***** us over the least. Sadly, that day may come after I move to Canada.
  • kupmar, on 12/15/2007, -3/+16Going back to the source web site, it looks to me like the increase from 2003 to 2004 had to do with a change at the IRS in which they started outsourcing a significant amount of their shredding needs to American Data Destruction, the subsidiary of a non-profit organization called Handicapable (www.handicapable.net) whose charge is to offer gainful employment to disabled people. This upped the IRS vendor spending for shredding from $100K a year to over $1.1 million a year which explains most of the overall increase. Assuming that this resulted in a savings for the IRS (because they no longer needed to employ people internally to shred the tax returns) maybe this increase was a good thing? Of course, that isn't to say that Bush/Chaney/Rove didn't slip in a few extra documents with the tax returns...
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -3/+15isnt that called tyranny? good thing bushs relatives (like his grandfather for example) dont have a history of trying to set up tyranny in america or funding the third reich and profitting off the holocaust starting the bush fortune. oh wait.... Ron Paul 2008
  • AzureRise, on 12/15/2007, -1/+12I sure as ***** didn't.
  • SigmaDraconis, on 12/15/2007, -1/+11For a second, I thought this would be an article from The Onion.
    Then I thought, "This is too ridiculous to be fake."
  • merwin, on 12/15/2007, -0/+909 elections? Man, if you wait to vote until 2009, go right ahead, but I think you'll be disappointed.
  • brianary, on 12/15/2007, -1/+9Well, yeah, about that: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20 ...
  • amirman, on 12/15/2007, -4/+11no we didn't. the elections are PWNED.
  • masturbator, on 12/15/2007, -1/+8With that much paper to shred, a few key pieces are bound to be neglected. Being evil can be very hectic.
  • GhostyBoy, on 12/15/2007, -3/+10"I have worked for the Federal government for 20 years"

    Dude, that comment is not going to score you a lot of credibility here.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+7That's why the 09 elections have me so worried. Who will have the balls and the backing to undo even 50% of the damage this administration has caused?
  • Snoked, on 12/15/2007, -3/+10gogogogogo impeachment...
    oh but this doesn't involve a woman and a cigar?? then how do we convince the people!
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -0/+7Bush should get a Nobel Prize for shredding, unlike this silly Al Gore guy.
  • charlietuna, on 12/15/2007, -2/+9why are you shouting? does someone need a hug?
  • merwin, on 12/15/2007, -0/+7Wait, isn't that the same thing that Scooter Libby was found guilty of? Oh wait, he got his sentence commuted by the asshat-in-chief.
  • alwilson, on 12/15/2007, -1/+8Don't most brutal regimes burn, slash and destroy everything as they go out of power?
  • alwilson, on 12/15/2007, -1/+8Oh crap! Someone left the door open and the monkey got in! Shooo Asshat! Shoooo.... Damn- now it's pooped on the floor. ***** monkey!
  • nixfu, on 12/15/2007, -5/+11HAHAHA!! Don't ask those sort of questions.. man your such a buzzkill on a good "I hate bush" digg-lib-o-trantrum
  • Import98, on 12/15/2007, -2/+8What a great country we live in. Apparently this ***** can do whatever he wants with no recourse.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -1/+7If you don't have anything to hide...what's the problem? Thats what you goofballs say about all the civil rights violations from Chimpy and Company.
  • nicksauce, on 12/15/2007, -0/+6Correlation does not necessarily imply causation. However, correlation CAN imply causation. Here it's pretty clear that it does.
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -1/+7getting rid of the evidence of their crimes, lying keeping stuff secret and everything else, loss of liberty, in my book thats all tyranny and they need to be executed for treason. and its funny how you didnt debate prescott bush being hitlers main agent in the u.s. and profitting from slave labor in the death camps etcetera. hitler called for a new world order, bush sr. announced it again in 1990 and bush jr. (inbred puppet) is carrying it out, as gary hart (CFR membe) said, 9/11 was the perfect chance and he used to go all the way.
  • unclemeat, on 12/15/2007, -0/+6I believe it's called Halliburton...
  • lucas22, on 12/15/2007, -0/+5funnily enough you have an account, you ***** waste of atoms
  • amirman, on 12/15/2007, -0/+5oh yes of course because the sexual stuff had absolutely nothing to do with sensationalizing the whole impeachment. absolutely nothing.
    and George Bush and Dick Cheney are not liars.

    /sarcasm

    http://mosquito-blog.blogspot.com/2007/12/bush-che ...
    (mind you, that's the second time we've had to hear this propaganda)
  • Sil369, on 12/15/2007, -1/+6But??@! But??! His Legacy!!
  • weebit, on 12/15/2007, -1/+6If the USA does not do anything to the Bush and Company. Then I am afraid this will open the door up for our Country to be abused even worse in years to come.
  • amirman, on 12/15/2007, -1/+6the war against terrorism is really the war against the middle east, and terrorists are brown people with guns, aren't you aware of the new Amerikan lexicon yet?
  • charlah, on 12/15/2007, -2/+6At least Nixon left the records for future generations to find out just exactly how he ***** the country...
  • pwnies, on 12/15/2007, -0/+4Actually yes. Top secret documents can't just be shredded, as shreded paper can be pieced together again. Top secret docs are usually incinerated, and then the ashes are mixed, and all the metal is removed.
  • alwilson, on 12/15/2007, -0/+4Glad you cleared that up. I thought blow jobs were unconstitutional.
  • DogBotherer, on 12/15/2007, -1/+5They shredded the plans...
  • inactive, on 12/15/2007, -1/+5Feeling desperate, I see. You guys can't deny this crap any more, so you just act like trolls. Keep it up, it demonstrates everything we have been saying about you.
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