White House E-Mail Battle Heats Up

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Judge: White House Has Three Days to Explain Why It Shouldn't Have to Copy Its Computer Hard Drives

The White House has three days to explain why it shouldn't be required to copy its computer hard drives to ensure no further e-mails are lost, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.

Already, e-mails between March and October 2003 appear to have been lost, Judge John M. Facciola noted, because they were improperly archived and no backup copies exist. That period includes the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

E-mails by White House staff are considered part of the nation's historical record, and federal law requires they be preserved. The White House has admitted that potentially millions of e-mails from the past eight years have been erased, although it has provided conflicting accounts on how many may still exist on backup tapes.

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Judge Facciola rejected as "draconian" a proposal by the Archive that would have forced the White House to quarantine every computer workstation it had. Instead, Facciola proposed the White House make a "forensic copy" of all preservable data on every computer that could have been used by an employee between 2003 and 2005, the period in question.

Observing that even that step is "not without its costs," Facciola gave the White House until close of business Friday to argue why it should not be required to make such copies.

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[pleah]

1. What happens when they just totally ignore this judge?

:shrug:

[fascisthunter]

4. Our Forefathers Come Back from the Dead

to lend todays' quislings with some spine.

[damntexdem]

8. Oh, they won't totally ignore this judge.

No, they'll work at a hellish pace to erase everything they can before Friday.

[annabanana]

11. And then work to get him fired.. . . . . n/t

[tbyg52]

2. They are already as gone as the WH can make them

Hopefully some patriotic tech person can dig up the remnants.

[kestrel91316]

5. They're definitely GONE. I guarantee you every original hard drive

with incriminating emails has been smashed to dust, and the hard drives they have now just have the acceptable emails copied onto them. These people aren't stupid.

[Javaman]

6. Damn straight. right now some poor bastard in India is melting down

the old ones for the platinum and gold.

[Heywood J]

7. They probably just handed the hard drives on the mail server

to the military in Classified bags and told them to take care of it. The federal protocol for top secret data destruction at one point was rumored to involve crushing the disk, then grinding it up into pieces before burying them somewhere in a landfill.

[damntexdem]

10. Well, actually they are both stupid and incompetent.

But chances are that many of those harddrives are long gone.

[jayfish]

3. Ummm, Why Would The WH Have...

to quarantine every PC? Have they heard of little thing called an e-mail server? Total BS!

Jay

[TommyO]

9. Because the messages on the White House's mail servers are gone

deleted, history, no backups. Recovery from PCs that those messages were sent to or from could be used to piece together what was happening during the missing message timeframe.

[Thepricebreaker]

12. Its all obama and hillary in the news now.. as if the white house gives a shit... heats up LOL ROFL.

[Orsino]

13. Slow-walking it into 2009. n/t

[classysassy]

14. The democratic party

has been infiltrated by greedy thugs like Nancy and her nitwits,they don't give a damn about the American people(poor people),its all about money and power.

[synapsesfiring]

15. CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR

This is just another example of CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR on the part of the Bush Regime. How many more times must the Regime defy judges/Congress/voters before there is IMPEACHMENT??? It is documented that Bush & Co. have outright lied about a myriad issues since taking power in 2001. Let's go through a few:

9/11 -- outright lies and possible complicity with "alleged attackers"
Justification for Iraq War re: WMDs
Cheney Energy Task Force Mtg
Anthrax Investigation
Iraq/9/11 Link
Iraq/Al-Qaeda Link
EPA censorship
Military Contractor Fraud & Abuse
Domestic Eavesdropping/NSA Wiretapping, et al.

I could go and on, but you get the idea. The Bush Regime is destroying all the evidence so in the future, when Pres. Obama takes office, there will not be enough information left to prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Powell, Tenet, etc.