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- inactive, on 03/22/2008, -20/+355Dirty administration, nothing but a bunch of cloak and dagger crooks. Would have been better off with a pocket calculator making the decisions in the white house for the last 8 years.
- insomniac8400, on 03/22/2008, -19/+212Things that make you go... impeachment!
In the business world destruction of evidence is admission of guilt. - Dumbledorito, on 03/22/2008, -11/+192There are two things about this that make me despair:
1. These guys are probably going to get away with all sorts of things that should have landed them in jail, and
2. This sets a precident that future governments can follow.
I know a lot of loyal Bushies out there think "haw-haw, we got to get done what we wanted to, never mind them pesky laws, haw-haw" and don't think beyond that. I'd love for them to just have one elightened moment and realize that if ONE president they LIKE can do it, then ALL of the subsequent presidents they DON'T like probably can, too. America seems to be the land of the short-sighted in just about everything, from economics to policy, and I'm afraid it's just going to get worse and worse. - ExRe, on 03/22/2008, -4/+151Magic 8 Ball For President!
- SheilaNoya, on 03/22/2008, -7/+113Bull. The laws requires those records to be kept.
- ChristPissed, on 03/22/2008, -10/+104I bet the drives and backup tapes are intact on the RNC servers. Most of their illicit-official business took place using RNC email adresses and not whitehouse.gov addresses.
- Deadpixel1221, on 03/22/2008, -9/+96I'm just waiting for the right wing retard squad the bury this as "inaccurate".
- inactive, on 03/22/2008, -7/+93I used to have a problem with losing old e-mails... then I switched to Gmail.
- AriaStar, on 03/22/2008, -7/+85Well that was convenient.
- bjornski, on 03/22/2008, -6/+80Just a TAD worse than 19 minutes of missing audiotape.
And Nixon resigned before being impeached over it. With Cheney helping him avoid responsibility, every step of the way.
The entire PNAC gang needs to be imprisoned. - openj, on 03/22/2008, -9/+81What Bush has done has put every law enforcement officer in America in imminent danger by literally removing the justice system as a responsible force. If they continue to fail to act in the face of utterly obvious crimes being committed at the highest levels of government, then we will have no choice but to re-invoke the Declaration of Independence.
Oh, you haven't read it? Let me point out some key indictments:
"He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good."
"He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them."
"He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only."
"He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries."
"He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance."
"He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power."
"He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:"
"For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:"
"For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:"
"For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:"
"He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us."
"He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."
"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
Sound like anyone you know? They were the reason America declared her independence the first time around, and they will be the same reason we do the same again.
George Bush is a terrorists. He is a tyrant. He deserves impeachment. He demands a trial. America must be free, and if the justice system will not perform in their responsibilities, then America must not recognize the justice system. - bjornski, on 03/22/2008, -6/+60It may be standard practice to destroy the drives every 3 years, but it still doesn't excuse them for "losing" all the data, which BY LAW, is supposed to be retained.
Using "standard practices" to avoid the law isn't an excuse. It's a reason to look harder, and file charges.
And seriously, enough with the "But...but...but.. CLINTON!" *****. - pentupentropy, on 03/22/2008, -10/+56Seeing as how those hard drives contain official government data, they should never have been destroyed, period. The only thing that really could have totally destroyed the data on them, and I am sure this was done is 1) Writing over it about 20 or 30 times. 2) Physically damaging the platters beyond recognition, in which case it's still sometimes possible to work through it in a clean room environment and recover data.
This is another ***** tactic of this administration. If you want to follow the crap that Cheney and Rove have done since watergate, try reading "Worse than Watergate." It follows them from then til now. - inactive, on 03/22/2008, -2/+48Wow, you are incredibly wrong. Having worked in a government laboratory with classified information and computers, I NEVER, repeat NEVER, had my hard drives destroyed while there was classified information on them. An image was made, copied onto either the new machine or a databank, and the hard drives were wiped and either given to another department or recycled. There was ALWAYS a backup of any hard drive that had been replaced/removed.
- Rotzooi, on 03/22/2008, -5/+39When I was young, I expected civilizations to always continue forward, and improve. I was wrong. We had a pretty nice country going, for more than a few decades. Really, we had it quite okay. But since the last few years of the 20th century, we've been living in a ***** banana republic. And it's getting worse and worse.
Before long, the world will be watching their newscasts and not see a difference between the situation on the streets of some godforsaken African nation, and a random U.S. city. ***** me. - inkswamp, on 03/22/2008, -2/+36Stephen King wrote a great tongue-in-cheek article for Rolling Stone back in the 80s, making the case against re-electing Ronald Reagan where he said he'd rather vote a dog in the street into the Oval Office. While the dog might not make a particularly good president, at least a dog wouldn't intentionally make lousy decisions driven by some agenda, corporate interests or concerns for political power. Your "pocket calculator" comment reminded me of that. Indeed, I think an inanimate object might actually *have* done a better job than George W. Bush.
- Micktion, on 03/22/2008, -1/+30Anyone who knows anything about IT, which obviously you don't, would know that sensitive information like this should never have been kept on hard drives of desktop machines in the first place. If classified information has been lost, it's been lost on purpose. Any other conclusion is pure stupidity/naivity in the extreme.
I think this is a good sign, it means that this administration actually thinks it has a need to start the modern equivalent of paper shredding, which means we might actually get reigime change in the only place it has ever countered... washington. - aimhelix, on 03/22/2008, -15/+43DIGG THIS. Everyone have to know about this - this is destruction of evidence and is clearly against the law. I'm sure they'll fire back with the guise of National Security but that is all *****. This administration is full of crooks and liars; even if that data is never recovered, every citizen must know that someone felt strongly enough to have to hide information that could've possibly landed someone in jail. Now, how about contacting AT&T for the data.. I'm sure they have it backed up somewhere....
- laserblazer, on 03/22/2008, -5/+32Remember the GOP email archive that was accidentally sent to the BBC reporter? That story was quashed three days after it broke. The media are the whores of the government, who are in turn the whores of the corporations.
- DigitAl56K, on 03/22/2008, -3/+30Holy crap, so now they weren't just accidentally not archived, they physically destroyed all the actual hard drives?
How are these people not in prison? How?? - InfamousAtheist, on 03/22/2008, -5/+30You really believe that? After seven years of lies and countless laws broken... you actually trust these guys. By the way, they broke the law when they destroyed those drives, unless there are backups. Something tells me those are missing also though. Just a hunch.
- inactive, on 03/22/2008, -2/+27Shhh- don't remind them.
- Dumbledorito, on 03/22/2008, -2/+25If we applied the standards they claim to hold, then oh, yesiree, we could most SURELY blame them.
- WasabiBomb, on 03/22/2008, -4/+27However, the emails WERE lost, despite laws which demand otherwise. But then, this is a Republican administration, and they're above the law, right?
- an0nym0uz, on 03/22/2008, -1/+24and the govt has the nerve to put us, the public under watch?!?!?!? what happened to all the checks and balances that were supposed to keep our govt on the level???????
- Maddoktor2, on 03/22/2008, -5/+28"It would be costly and time-consuming for the White House to institute an e-mail retrieval program that entails pulling data off each individual workstation"
And this is why I pay taxes - for justice and freedom, not unjustified wars and supression of rights - so spend my ***** money properly and do it, already! Hell, I'd even welcome an income tax hike for this!
***** Neonazicons... your Day of Reckoning is coming, you greedy amoral bastards! - saxreturns, on 03/22/2008, -3/+25...and in its spare time, it could have kept all those cretins supposedly running the country amused with the word 'boobs'.
- brwright, on 03/22/2008, -5/+27I heard they were going to install "The Ubuntu" but got confused with the partitioning...
- Dumbledorito, on 03/22/2008, -5/+26I'm sure Dear Leader Bush has a signing statement about it somewhere... or he would if he actually knew what a hard drive was.
And ccpwizard, you're either an apologist or completely clueless as to how information is supposed to be handled in our government. - bjornski, on 03/22/2008, -3/+23And those backups have been destroyed also.
- bjornski, on 03/22/2008, -3/+22True, but the law DOES specify that the data be saved.
Destroying evidence, and then claiming ignorance of technology, shouldn't cut it. They went out of their way to destroy damaging evidence. So tech issues aside, there is a criminal matter to be investigated. - inactive, on 03/22/2008, -7/+26"Buried as inaccurate" by neocon sheep in 3... 2... 1...
- sarixe, on 03/22/2008, -5/+23that's true, but it doesn't mean it shouldn't happen. the administration shouldn't be allowed to get away with this *****.
- an0nym0uz, on 03/22/2008, -3/+21correction dude - because the info on those drives would most likely have incriminating info on cheney and bush for their extensive abuses of power, the drives would have to be destroyed
- bjornski, on 03/22/2008, -1/+18What do servers keep their data on?
- inkswamp, on 03/22/2008, -4/+21It's the usual formula. When Republicans are out of public favor, the right-wing rhetoric turns to "Democrats and Republicans are no different." But when Republicans are riding high in public opinion, the apparent differences never seem to end.
The Democrats are *far* from perfect, but I think they are on a whole less prone to corruption, agenda-driven decision making and corporate influences, and therefore they are far preferable to the disaster we have now. - ...---..., on 03/22/2008, -1/+17right - what do you think servers actually are? They store their data on HARD DRIVES...
- dcbebop, on 03/22/2008, -3/+19Would have been better with a stock picking monkey. That way we could have better leadership and better economic decisions.
"It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. You stupid monkey ..."
/sorry, just enjoy that quote whenever monkeys + leadership comes to mind. - Myztry, on 03/23/2008, -0/+16I'll have to remember that for my tax records, etc.
"Sorry, was just following Government sanctioned practice" - mehip, on 03/23/2008, -0/+16Dude WTF does this have to do with Clinton?
- Sil369, on 03/22/2008, -5/+21I red your comment as "then I switched to Geico"
- SquigglyP, on 03/22/2008, -3/+18It's going to get worse until people realize that there are repercussions to curent policy and actions. This seems to be something a lot of people are having a hard time getting through their skulls. One thing leads to another. You get drunk and drive then don't be surprised when you get in a wreck or arrested. You ***** everything that moves then don't be surprised when you end up with a disease or a kid. You kill thousands of people in a pointless war then don't be surprised when the survivors retaliate.
The US sheeple used the old "eye for an eye" excuse to go kill thousands of people in the middle east in revenge for the deaths in the 9/11 attacks, never once stopping to think that that phrase is supposed to be a detriment to fighting, not an excuse to fight. If you take an eye, don't be surprised when you have an eye taken in return. Politically this sort of ***** has been going on for ages. I've been telling people for years that the ability to arrest and hold citizens of the US for years without a trial is something we should never have allowed the government to have, and they say to me "but that's only for terrorists". People need to learn how to plan for the years ahead. A few decades from now, being held for years for no apparent reason might seem commonplace. We have only ourselves to blame. - Maddoktor2, on 03/22/2008, -9/+24Let me guess - you're a Republican, right?
You're all dirty bastards with blood on your hands - how can you possibly sleep at night or look yourselves in the mirror?? - SilverBlade2k, on 03/22/2008, -5/+19This should be considered an automatic admission of guilt...
- bjornski, on 03/22/2008, -2/+16Only the Democratic ones. The Republican sex crimes that come out are all gay-sex scandals. You'd need words like "hot steamy pages", and "manly men" to keep them occupied.
Right, Mr Gannon? - theaceoffire, on 03/22/2008, -2/+15They are not above the law. They change it daily, ignore it, then get retro (and future) active immunity.
- bjornski, on 03/23/2008, -0/+13Absolutely nothing. It's just another attempt to obfuscate the issues and distract people from the current batch of criminals in charge.
And you figure with 6 years of investigating Clinton, they could have come up with something better than not wanting to admit an affair on national TV. "OMG! He was ***** a fat girl! Impeach him!"
But yet when this administration ***** the entire country, they circle their wagons in defense.
***** pathetic. - laserblazer, on 03/22/2008, -1/+14Complete consolidation of power and the systematic disenfranchisement of the citizenry.
- theaceoffire, on 03/22/2008, -1/+13Thats the same password on my luggage!
- centran, on 03/22/2008, -2/+14Because they have official government data on them is exactly why they where destroyed.... as they should be. However, the data would have been moved to another drive and then they melt the old hard drives. It's the data that should have never been destroyed; the old hard drives on the other hand need to be completely obliterated.
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