473 days of White House E-Mails 'Missing'

[spanone]

The White House possesses no archived e-mail messages for many of its component offices, including the Executive Office of the President and the Office of the Vice President, for hundreds of days between 2003 and 2005, according to the summary of an internal White House study that was disclosed yesterday by a congressional Democrat.

The 2005 study -- whose credibility the White House attacked this week -- identified 473 separate days in which no electronic messages were stored for one or more White House offices, said House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.).

Waxman said he decided to release the summary after White House spokesman Tony Fratto said yesterday that there is "no evidence" that any White House e-mails from those years are missing. Fratto's assertion "seems to be an unsubstantiated statement that has no relation to the facts they have shared with us," Waxman said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011703575_pf.html

[Botany]

1. But the White House did use gwb43.com

through the RNC for e-mails so they did not have to keep a record.
Rove & Gonzales were big on that.

[spanone]

3. this is criminal

[malaise]

7. This is criminal?

We are dealing with criminals here brother.
Crimes against humanity
Crimes against Congress
Crimes against citizens
Crimes crimes crimes crimes crimes crimes

IMPEACH these CRIMINALS

[driver8]

8. Isn't everything done by organized crime considered "criminal"?

These guys are worse than the mafia!! (But don't appear to be as organized...)

[malaise]

10. Yep n/t

[SharonAnn]

2. Aren't they required to retain those records? Always?

[Botany]

4. yes they are but ....

.... they did not use the White House system so they did not have to save 'em.

[Marie26]

5. Yeah but Cheney isn't part of the executive branch.

That's the excuse he gave to the National Archives, anyway. He wouldn't turn over VP documents to them either.

[yy4me]

6. Washington Post. You wasted your ink. Should have asked

us, we knew it all along.

[spanone]

9. it's good that others know.