Bushco 22 million emails = obstruction of justice?

[deminks]

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/79286787.html

(snip)

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D., Vt.) said the Bush administration had been dismissive of congressional requests that it recover the e-mail.

The tally of missing e-mail, the additional searches, and the settlement are the latest development in a political controversy that stemmed from the Bush White House's failure to install a properly working electronic recordkeeping system. Two federal laws require the White House to preserve its records.

The two groups say there is not yet a final count on the extent of missing White House e-mail and may never be a complete tally.

"Many poor choices were made during the Bush administration," Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to the National Security Archive, said, "and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records, despite the fact that they were contending with regular subpoenas for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records."

(end snip)

From Firedoglake:

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/12/14/white-house-to-restore-emails-from-plame-cover-up-period/

The National Security Archive has released a list of dates for which the White House will restore emails under its settlement agreement.

That list includes almost all of the most suspect dates when email was missing, most notably the period (between September 29 and October 7, 2003) when Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby were working on a cover story in Jackson Hole. This is the period, remember, when Libby told Cheney the story he was going to tell the FBI–that he had learned of Plame’s identity from Tim Russert, not from Cheney himself. And it is also the period during which we know Fitzgerald was seeking emails, but did not receive them. (He did receive at least one email, printed out from a hard drive, after the more intense search for emails started in 2005.

From CREW press release:

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/43671

(snip)

Documents produced so far show the Bush White House was lying when officials claimed no emails were ever missing. The record now proves incontrovertibly that Bush administration officials deliberately ignored the problem and, in fact, knowingly allowed it to worsen. Some questions remain unanswered. Why, after the Office of Administration told then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers about the problem and presented her with a plan to restore the emails, did she do nothing? Why did the White House abandon -- at the last minute -- a system it had developed to manage and preserve electronic records, despite having spent millions to create it? Did the Bush White House properly respond to requests for records from the Department of Justice and Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald during the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA identity?

[DrDan]

1. do you honestly believe that the adminstration has any interest whatsoever in

pursuing charges against the prior group of felons for ANY reason???????

It's not gonna happen.

[chimpymustgo]

3. Sad, but true. K&R anyway.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "'Many poor choices.' Bwa ha ha. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"You Americans can think of them as 'poor choices' if you want, but we republicons know they are just some of our deliberate occult mindf*ck techniQues. Bwaa ha ha ha. Smirk."

- xCommander AWOL & Republicon Occultist Chickenhawk Cronies

[AndyA]

4. Obstruction of justice?

Only if the current administration decides to enforce the laws.

So far, not much movement in holding Bushco accountable for anything. In fact, the cover up continues.

So much for transparency. :(

[elocs]

5. Well, if you start holding your breath now I guarantee that your head will explode.

I would be very, very surprised if anything major comes of this.

[jtrockville]

6. At the very least, DoJ should reopen the Plame case.

[rudy23]

7. Not with their accomplices in the White House and at the DOJ

Obama's coverup is part II of the Bush regime.