JUDGE Gives BUSHCO 5 days TO Answer On Missing E-Mails

[kpete]

Judge demands answers on White House’s missing e-mails.

A federal judge today ordered the White House “to reveal whether copies of possibly millions of missing e-mails are stored on computer backup tapes.” The AP reports:

Facciola gave the White House five business days to report whether computer backup tapes contain e-mails written between 2003 and 2005.

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“Do the back-ups contain the e-mails said to be missing?” Facciola asked.

In a four-page order, Facciola said he needs to know “if the missing e-mails are not on those back-ups.”

Facciola noted the importance of acting quickly since e-mails that might be retrievable from individual computer workstations in the White House “are increasingly likely to be deleted or overwritten with the passage of time.”

Judge demands answers on White House’s missing e-mails.A federal judge today ordered the White House “to reveal whether copies of possibly millions of missing e-mails are stored on computer backup tapes.” The AP reports:

more at:
http://citizensforethics.org/node/30704
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/08/judge-demands-answers-on-missing-e-mails-from-white-house/

[Fresh_Start]

1. WH response: our consultant assured us that all backups

were destroyed (according to plan)

[Rockholm]

2. Take this asshole down.

[LakeSamish706]

3. I guess my question to the judge has to be, and what will you do if we don't..

comply? Hell, Congress can't seem to get there attention, so why would they listen to a judge?

[annabanana]

4. Again? Or is this new?... "Five Days" starting when?

sigh

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. The starting date is the day after bu$hco leave office.

:evilgrin:

[seemslikeadream]

5. IMPEACH CHENEY

IMPEACH CHENEY




They Thought They Were Free - Read by Dave Emory

The Germans, 1933-45

Excerpt from pages 166-73 of "They Thought They Were Free" First published in 1955

By Milton Mayer

But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know, it doesn’t make people close to their government to be told that this is a people’s government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing, to do with knowing one is governing.

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

....

"Yes," I said.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’



Michael Parenti - Terrorism, Globalism & Conspiracy

"Coincidence Theory: By shear chance things just happen repeatedly and coincidentally to benefit their interests without any conscious connivance by them, which is most uncanny. There is also: Stupidity Theory, Innocence Theory, Momentary Aberration Theory, Incompetence Theory, Unintended Consequences Theory and Innocent Cultural Proclivities Theory."

- Michael Parenti

[OzarkDem]

6. No wonder he's going to the mideast

hard to serve him if he's not in town.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. And when they say, "fuck you, Liberal Activist Judge." Then what? n/t

[C_U_L8R]

9. Or what?

somebody's gotta start holding people accountable or this is all bullshit

[malaise]

10. Get thee to the Greatest page

K & R.

[old guy]

11. Questions: What would be the consequences if they did?

"Hey, we destroyed the e-mails so now you can't get them. So what?" What could we do?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. Contempt of court.

Throw them in jail. Simple stuff we learned about in Remedies class in law school.

[old guy]

18. Do you think that would really happen?

Keeping in mind this is Bushco world after all.

[Zorra]

20. A stern letter with strong language will be sent. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Well, it's worth a shot. But you just know they aren't gonna come

out and say, yes - voila..

[intheflow]

13. Link?

:shrug:

[kpete]

15. sorry about that

http://citizensforethics.org/node/30704

[intheflow]

21. Thanks.

I was so surprised it was missing. That's not usual kpete behavior! Must be the stress of the primary season. :hi:

[pacalo]

16. This is from AP & here's the link...

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKKWSY_43nHexg55YcW2X9YXNayAD8U1T7U00

[Triana]

17. That lawless mob will thumb their noses and weasel out of it (n/t)

[bluesmail]

19. like I said in a related post

FIRE! FIRE! We don't got no fire sprinklers. Just don't get here too soon, the non existent fire sprinklers are not working, HA!