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Dirty 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.

I 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.

I used to have a problem with losing old e-mails... then I switched to Gmail.

Things that make you go... impeachment!
In the business world destruction of evidence is admission of guilt.

Well that was convenient.

There 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.

Seeing 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.

There's no "hmmmmmm" about it. "Hmmmmm" implies a question, pondering, or thought about what is/has occurred. It's very clear what has happened. No "hmmmmm" could possibly be applied.

DIGG 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....

I'm just waiting for the right wing retard squad the bury this as "inaccurate".

Remember 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.

I wonder if anything to do with George Bush's criminal acts against mankind and the entire earth have been lost? Or if they luckily weren't on the hard drives destroyed?

Just an honest to God accident. I'm sure of it.
/sarc

Just 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.

What 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.

When 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.

I heard they were going to install "The Ubuntu" but got confused with the partitioning...

"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!

It is the goal of this administration to destroy all evidence of their wrong doing. And they get new computers as a result! So, every year the government gets new computers...this does sound suspicious, as I have used my computers since 2000, and they work just fine for doing work, or business related tasks. (For the record, I have a PIII 1.4GHz, and a K6 1.0GHz and they make excellent database/e-mail computers.)

Only gamers need new computers every year...because the games require more and more resources.

we write the year 2008 a. c. still our society is in the shape of the dark age - not any society - no the most powerfull ofc ... its a very LOL

works out to 1368 e-mails per day per million lost. that is a lot of lolcats.

All the evidence we need is that they act like they're guilty.

"Buried as inaccurate" by neocon sheep in 3... 2... 1...

Holy 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??

And the Bush administration wonders WHY people hate them so much? As to impeachment- It's never gonna happen. Besides, why waste all that effort on such a benign punishment? I'm looking forward to the Hague getting involved and charging the entire group of stooges with crimes against humanity.

This should be considered an automatic admission of guilt...

Those bastards!

Destroying the hard drive is not the problem. It is the fact that the data was destroyed. The data should have been backed up then the drives destroyed. I always assumed the government melted their old hard drives and I hope that is standard procedure.
I may not go through the trouble of melting my hard drives but I do physically destroy my own personal hard drives as best I can.

***** the Bush administration I hope to god ,and I'm atheist, that this is truly an election of change and we can learn as a country to actually watch our government and not just trust them to take care of us.

I think the more important question is why the only copies of important emails were kept on workstations and not being backed up.

The Bush administration, empowering scumbags since 2000.

No. they don't make me go Hmmmmmm. This was deliberate destruction of evidence. Even the most incompetent of systems administrators would have had at least partial backups of important documents and email.

Why are they not being charged?

Once again, it's demonstrated that those with power are not subjugated to the rule of law. Those with no power always must pay. Hypocrisy like this encourages the society that it is demonstrated in, to become more unlawful as a whole. The judicial system has become a joke. The judge might as well trade in the dignified black cloak for a clown's outfit complete with make-up.

Way to lead leaders!

"Under pressure to provide details about its computer system, the White House told the congressional committee that it never completed work that began in 2003 on a planned records management and e-mail archiving system. The White House canceled the project in late 2006 and says it is still working on a new version."
Um, there is an election is this year..... so when were they going to start archiving email? When somebody else takes over in January of 2009?

The only thing more abhorrent than this administration's unadulterated evil is this country's indifference towards it.