White House may find countless e-mails

[rodeodance]

Source: AP



White House may find countless e-mails

Mon Apr 16, 8:17 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The White House should be able to recover an undetermined number of e-mails — perhaps millions of messages — that accidentally disappeared from its servers during a program conversion, an administration official said Monday.


"We are aware that there could have been some e-mails that were not automatically archived because of a technical issue," said White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino.

"But given the complex nature of this issue, it might take us a little while to identify those. We do, however, know that most — all of those e-mails should be available on backup tapes. And so we'll continue to look at it."

This issue is separate from the White House acknowledgment that aides to
President Bush have improperly used e-mail accounts created by the Republican Party to conduct official White House business, and that an undetermined number of these e-mails have been lost.

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Roves' fingers were the "technical issue"------gawd, they just try to make it so normal----!

[PSPS]

1. Notice how they used the word "accidentally" without quotes?

[Ian David]

2. Congress should have moved to immediately seize possession of the back-up tapes...

to prevent them from being "damaged" or "lost."

[babylonsister]

3. I don't believe a word of it; they're now just messing with us. Cat/mouse. nt

[meegbear]

4. It'll be all those 'penile enlargement' emails someone keeps sending me ...

I don't know why? :yoiks:

[C_U_L8R]

5. Here comes a massive document dump

Rove thrives on confusion

[badgerpup]

6. "...all of those e-mails should be available on backup tapes."

Backup tapes?
:wtf:
I thought they used discs...or tubes...or something like that.:sarcasm:

Seriously, these guys sound even more clueless than me about how the Internet works.
If they're actually THAT dim, there's a pretty good chance that those 'deleted emails' can be recovered by a clever teenage computer geek. :evilgrin:
No offense meant on the geek term, btw. :hi:

[gratuitous]

9. A past office used back-up tapes

But that was a teeny, tiny law office with a rather limited budget. However, I was able to retrieve lost documents from the tape back-up with some regularity and surprising speed when someone accidentally overwrote something. If the White House is willing to give me a no-bid contract to do the job, I'll happily give it a go. Of course, I will want incentive bonuses and performance bonuses built in whether I retrieve anything or not. You know, like Halliburton. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

[central scrutinizer]

10. translation:

We need time to read them all first and decide which ones won't result in criminal prosecutions, then release them.

[yellowcanine]

12. Heh. Spot on.

[wordpix]

14. translation earns an A, you get it perfectly

:grr:

[jmowreader]

16. Big iron is always backed up to tape

In fact, every Internet host I can think of backs up to tape.

Go to any host's website: "Daily DLT backup." DLT means "digital linear tape." Or "Daily LTO backup," in which LTO is "linear tape-open," what DLT has grown up to become.

You dump to tape because it's very reliable, it's very trusted, it's less expensive, it will actually HOLD the complete contents of your hard drive (try backing a 300GB hard drive up to anything but tape--would you rather have one LTO Ultrium cartridge, which will hold 400GB, or 80 DVD-RWs?) and at 80MB/second it's damn fast.

[Orsino]

7. Then again, they may not. n/t

[natrat]

8. buying a little time to sift through and hi tech delete the doozies

[LiberalFighter]

11. They had backup tapes? Wow!

[damntexdem]

13. Countless, huh? Nope, better count them.

And closely hold the WH to account.

[wordpix]

15. Congress should get a warrant to seize the computers NOW! WTF are they waiting for? Permanent

deletions? :wtf: