Bush Era "Lost" Emails Recovered

Uh-oh. The Dick and Liz Cheney Sunday morning political yack-fest tag-team is going to go into heavy damage control for this one! I'll bet you the spin will be that the recovery of the Bush Era emails is cover for President Obama's declining approval rating, and the ongoing health care reform battle. Whattaya bet?

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Obama Administration Will Restore Missing Bush White House Emails

The White House has announced a settlement in a lawsuit filed by two good-government groups concerning emails that went missing over a two-and-a-half year period during the Bush administration. . .

Read more at: TPM Muckraker

White House Admits It Didn't Save E-mails

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Does the headline sound silly? I mean really, they didn't save their emails. . .big whoop, right? Wrong. This administration has flouted the law, in countless ways, countless times, and they always get away with it. In this case, it so happens that archiving of White House emails is the law. And they broke it. On purpose.

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White House admits pre-war e-mails not archived

The White House does not have archival copies of e-mails exchanged between administration officials during the weeks leading up to President Bush's decision to invade Iraq nor for the first two months of the war there, according to a just-released filing concerning millions of e-mails alleged to have gone missing or been deleted. . .

Read more at: Raw Story

White House Destroyed Hard Drives with Email

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It becomes clearer and clearer with every passing day that the Bush White House does and has done virtually anything it wants, legal, ethical or not. It makes up its own rules, and even when caught, kinda just shrugs and says, "It's good to be the King." Harumph.

Here's only the latest example.

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White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing Emails

The White House has responded to a judge's order asking it to explain why it shouldn't be required to make copies of all of its hard drives to ensure the recovery of missing emails by claiming that many of the relevant hard drives have been destroyed. You read that correctly: the White House position is "We don't have to preserve hard drives containing missing email because we already destroyed them. . ."

Read more at: Mother Jones